What are the tombstone couplets?

Tombstone couplet universal horizontal batch:

All the blessings and longevity are returned, and the model is everywhere, and the model lasts forever.

The wind is sad, the pine and cypress are withered, and the tears are sad.

The wind is bitter and the rain is bitter, and the wind is sad for five nights, and people are buzzing.

There is no way to return to the soul. Jathyapple crows and cranes fly west.

Blue sky and yellow sky, smiling at Jiuquan, painstakingly cutting the fifth middle school.

Uniqueness and universality

It is generally believed that couplets are the most unique literary form in China. What is unique about it? Mainly in structure and language. Couplets can be called "dual structure" style. Standard couplets always consist of two opposing parts. The former part is called "Lian", which is also called "sentence", "antithesis" and "antithesis". The latter part is called "bottom link", which is also called "antithesis", "antithesis" and "antithesis".

These two parts are paired. Only the upper part or the lower part can be regarded as semi-joint. Of course, many couplets, especially those written and hung, have horizontal comments in addition to the upper and lower couplets. Horizontal criticism is an organic part of this kind of couplets, which is often a summary, the finishing touch or compatible with couplets. Generally, it is four words, but also two, three, five and seven words.

From the linguistic point of view, the language of couplets is neither a verse language nor a prose language, but a special language that pursues antithesis and richness. The special "language structure" of couplets is completely determined by the special nature of Chinese and its characters. The uniqueness of this "language structure" makes the creation of couplets different from other literary forms in conception, conception, layout and planning.

With the same objective object and content, we always try to observe and describe things from two aspects and angles, and strive to "shape" the language into a binary and symmetrical structure.