Classification of couplets

Couplets, commonly known as "Dui", are composed of two groups of Chinese characters with the same length and opposite. A couplet consists of two couplets, the front one is called the first couplet, and the back one is called the second couplet. Sometimes couplets will attach a "cross section" (also called cross section, cross beam, cross section). Generally, there are four words in a horizontal batch, but there are many words in a couplet. The most commonly used is five or seven words per sentence. Now some people call couplets "couplets".

According to their contents and uses, couplets can be divided into Spring Festival couplets, Happy Couplets, Shoulian couplets, elegiac couplets, scenic couplets, narrative couplets, epigrams couplets, fun couplets and so on. Spring Festival couplets are divided into: general couplets, industry couplets and zodiac couplets. Interesting couplets can be divided into: palindrome couplets, place names couplets, analysis couplets, overlapping couplets, overlapping couplets, embedded couplets, homophones, duplexes, top-truth couplets, circuitous couplets, hidden couplets, enigmatic couplets and so on.

Couplets can be divided into door couplets, hall couplets and couplets (couplets posted in front of the hall are called couplets) according to the position of posting (engraving and hanging).

Couplets can be divided into short couplets and long couplets according to the number of words Traditionally, anything less than seven words is called short couplet; More than ten words at a time are called long couplets. Others call single-sentence couplets short couplets, double-sentence couplets and multi-sentence couplets long couplets.

Couplets have the following characteristics: they are composed of upper and lower antitheses: the number of words and sentences in the upper and lower antitheses is equal; Words with opposite upper and lower parts must have the same part of speech and opposite tones; Relational words and relational words must be commensurate in rhythm and structure; The meaning of up and down links should be related; The last word of the first couplet must be silent, and the last word of the second couplet must be flat. These characteristics show that antithesis is the most fundamental feature of this literary form.

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