The practice of couplets

Couplets vary in length, short only one or two words; long up to several hundred words. Couplets in various forms, there are positive, against, running water pair, joint ball pair, set sentence pair and so on. But no matter what kind of couplets, using what form, must have the following characteristics:

1, to equal number of words, the same sentence. In addition to the intention to empty the position of a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words must be the same, no more, no less.

2, to the level and tone of harmony. The traditional custom is oblique flat fall, that is, the last word of the last sentence of the first line with oblique tone, the last word of the last line of the second line with flat tone.

3. The words should be relative and in the same position. Generally known as "virtual to virtual, real to real", that is, noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, quantity word to quantity word, adverb to adverb, and the relative words must be in the same position.

4, to content related, the upper and lower connection. The meanings of the upper and lower couplets must be connected to each other, but not repeated.

In addition, hanging couplets, the traditional method must also be written vertically, from right to left, from top to bottom, can not be reversed.

Expanded information:

The ten artistic styles of the couplet, from the point of view of the genre, the styles of the couplet can be roughly divided into 10 kinds of styles: the style of the poem, Folk song style, prose style, theater style, song style, idiom style, roundabout style, riddle style, ekphrasis style and so on.

In accordance with the different customs of different places, the time to paste the Spring Festival couplets also slightly different. As the saying goes: "twenty-eight, paste flowers", there are some places in the ballad "twenty-nine, paste inverted You (meaning that the posting of Spring Festival couplets)" said that the Spring Festival couplets and other things in the Lunar New Year on the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth posting, but most of the time according to the individual's schedule to choose to paste the time.

With the posting of Spring Festival couplets have a more centralized time is different, the time to pick Spring Festival couplets vary greatly from place to place. According to the different folklore, there are three main types: the whole year, the festival and the natural shedding.

Because spring scrolls belong to auspicious objects in folklore, the wanton destruction (burning, tearing, painting, etc.) of spring scrolls is an unethical behavior.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Couplets

Baidu Encyclopedia - Spring Festival Couplets