A brief introduction to the origin of couplets

1. Couplets are said to have originated from Meng Chang, a master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. It is a treasure of China traditional culture. Spring Festival couplets are called Spring Festival couplets, funeral couplets are called elegiac couplets, and happy couplets are called violet couplets. Couplets are a national style written by using the characteristics of Chinese characters, and generally do not need to rhyme (only the antitheses in the rhyme need to rhyme).

2. Parallel prose and regular poems are 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.