What's the difference between Spring Festival couplets, couplets and elegiac couplets?

Spring Festival couplets: couplets specially posted on New Year's Day and Spring Festival are called Spring Festival couplets. Their main contents are to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, express their ambitions, be full of lofty sentiments and look forward to the future. Because of its timeliness, people call it Spring Festival couplets.

Couplets: In the past, in order to express certain wishes or meet the needs of decoration, couplets were often carved on official posts, temples, gardens, or on boards or walls, which were collectively called couplets.

Wedding couplets: Couplets specially written to express warm atmosphere on the wedding day.

Elegiac couplet: A couplet used at a memorial service or commemorative meeting, the purpose of which is to evaluate the life achievements of the ancestors and express the sincere nostalgia of future generations.

Shoulian: When the elderly celebrate their birthdays, in order to express their blessings to their elders, children often write some auspicious words carefully, or stick them on the door or hang them in the hall. Such couplets are called birthday couplets.

Couplets, also known as couplets or couplets, are one of the traditional cultures in China. They are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique artistic form of Chinese language. Couplets are the treasures of China traditional culture.