Couplets, also known as antithesis, door-to-door, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets and so on. It is a antithesis written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique artistic form of Chinese. Couplets are the treasures of China traditional culture.
Couplets are also called antithesis, antithesis, spring stickers, spring couplets, couplets, peach symbols, couplets and so on. It is a kind of dual literature, which originated from the symbol of peach. Another source is the spring release. The ancients posted the word Yichun more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and to welcome the good fortune.
Couplets are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of China language, which is concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure. Parallel prose and rhyme are the two direct sources of couplets. In the process of its own development, couplets have absorbed the characteristics of ancient poems, essays, lyrics and songs.
Therefore, the sentence patterns used in couplets include ancient poems, prose sentences and parody sentences in addition to regular poems and parallel prose sentences. Different sentence patterns have different metrical patterns and different leniency. Among them, the sentence pattern of rhythmic poetry is the most strict, while the sentence pattern of ancient verse has no restrictions except at the end of the sentence.
Artistic style:
1, rhyme style: At first, couplets were mostly composed of five or seven words, which was the mainstream of couplets. This poetic couplet still accounts for the majority. Rulian: the breeze helps the willows, and the plum blossoms are defeated in the bright moon.
2. Ci style: In the Song Dynasty, Song Ci gradually flourished and enriched the art of couplets. For example, the couplet of Xu Da's former residence: One river does not return, a romantic figure through the ages, asking where the castle peak outside the building, the white clouds outside the mountain and the Han que in the Tang Palace are; In the small courtyard in spring, the warbler calls the beauty court, watching the green trees by the pool and the red rain by the trees. It's sunny here.
3. Folk song style: Some couplets are very similar to folk songs, with simple language, lively form and the flavor of folk songs. Lotus: Golden willow on the Jinshui River, passing through goldfish mouth; Hosta flowers are outside the jade railing and inserted on the jade head.
4. Prose style: based on literati couplets, some people say that it began with Zeng Guofan, such as the preface of Yu Yue, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty: life is useless, death has nothing to do, and 250 books have been painstakingly circulated all over the world, which is enough; I don't care about people. I have lived half my life for 30 years, and I have a smile. What should I do?