What's the difference between poetry and couplets?

Couplets are developed from the antithesis of regular poems, and retain some characteristics of regular poems. The ancients compared reciting poems with reciting poems, which reflected the relationship between them to some extent. Couplets require neat antithesis, smooth coordination, flat tail on the top and flat tail on the bottom. These characteristics are similar to those of regular poems, so some people call couplets paste poems. But couplets are different from poems. Generally speaking, only the upper couplet and the lower couplet are more refined than poems, and the sentence patterns are more flexible, long or short, flexible and changeable. Couplets can be four characters, five characters, six characters, seven characters, eight characters, nine characters, crosses and dozens of crosses. There are even hundreds of long couplets in ancient buildings in China. Couplets, whether chanting things and expressing aspirations or writing scenery and expressing feelings, require the author to have a high generalization ability and the ability to control words, so that it is possible to achieve both literary quality and physical spirit, giving people a sense of both ideological and artistic in a few words.

Couplets are inscribed on pillars, also called couplets, which are unique literary and artistic forms in China. It began in the Five Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a history of 1000 years.

As early as before the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a custom of hanging peach symbols in the New Year. The so-called Fu Tao is to write the names of the legendary gods "shentu" and "Lei Yu" on two mahogany boards and hang them on the left and right doors to exorcise ghosts and eliminate evil spirits. This custom lasted for more than 1000 years, and it was not until the Five Dynasties that people began to paste couplets on mahogany boards. According to "Songshi Shu Family", Meng Chang, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties, "in addition to the year after year, the bachelor's degree was inscribed with a peach symbol, and a bedroom door was set around. At the end of the year (AD 964), the bachelor was lucky enough to write a poem by Yin Xun. Because of his non-job, he pretended to write a poem: Qing Yu in the New Year, Jia Jienuo. Changchun. " This is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. After the Song Dynasty, it has become quite common for people to hang Spring Festival couplets in the New Year. In Wang Anshi's poems, the phrase "Thousands of households always change new peaches for old ones" is a true portrayal of the grand occasion at that time. Because the appearance of Spring Festival couplets is closely related to peach symbols, the ancients also called Spring Festival couplets "peach symbols". It was not until the Ming Dynasty that people began to use red paper instead of red boards, which led to the Spring Festival couplets we see today. According to Miscellaneous Notes of Mao Yunlou, before the Lunar New Year's Eve, after Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, made Jinling his capital, he ordered officials and literati to hang a pair of Spring Festival couplets at home, go out incognito in person, watch from house to house and have fun. From then on, all scholars think antithesis is an elegant thing. After entering the Qing Dynasty, couplets once flourished, and many famous couplets appeared. With the development of cultural exchanges between countries, couplets have also been introduced to Vietnam, North Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries. These countries still have the custom of pasting couplets.

Poetry refers to the traditional China poetry represented by modern poetry and metrical words. It is generally believed that poetry is more suitable for "expressing aspiration" and writing is more suitable for "expressing emotion". Poetry is a literary art that elucidates the soul, while poets and poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, dense composition, rich emotions and rich images in a highly concentrated way according to strict rhythm requirements. China's poetry originated in the pre-Qin period and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. China's ci originated in Sui and Tang Dynasties and was popular in Song Dynasty. China's poetry originates from the people, but it is actually a kind of grass-roots literature. In China in the 2 1 century, poetry is still favored by the general public, and some important schools of poetry, such as the new national style, have emerged.