Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional culture - The first line reads, "We celebrate the small year, we celebrate the big year, we celebrate every year," and the second line reads, "We celebrate the small year, we celebrate the big year, we celebrat

The first line reads, "We celebrate the small year, we celebrate the big year, we celebrate every year," and the second line reads, "We celebrate the small year, we celebrate the big year, we celebrat

The first line reads, "We celebrate the small year, we celebrate the big year, we celebrate every year," and the second line reads, "We celebrate the small year, we celebrate the big year, we celebrate every year". It is a kind of couplet literature, originated from peach charms. It is a pair of statements written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood or pillars. It is a unique art form of the Chinese language with simple words, neat pairs of phrases, coordinated pairs of words, the same number of characters, and the same structure.

Couplets are said to have begun in the Five Dynasties after the Lord of Shu Meng Chang chǎng, which is a traditional Han cultural treasure, the Spring Festival when hanging couplets called spring couplets, do funeral couplets are called elegiac couplets, do happy couplets are called celebratory couplets. Couplets are a national literary style written in Chinese characters, and generally do not need to rhyme (only the couplets in poems need to rhyme). Couplets can be broadly categorized into poetic couplets, and prose couplets.