Couplets are a good thing.

Couplets are a good thing (Guo Shengfei)

Couplets are culture, China culture, China traditional culture and China excellent traditional culture. We should advocate, love, learn, create, use and inherit couplets. Why? Because couplets are a good thing. Why do you see it? Please listen to the following breakdown.

First, couplets are literature. What is literature? Interpretation of Ci Hai: "The art of using language to create images to reflect social life and express the author's thoughts and feelings is also called' language art'". Couplets fully conform to this definition because they use words and language as tools to create images and express social life and thoughts and feelings. However, Ci Hai only lists four kinds of literature: poetry, prose, novel and drama. Then, couplets are clearly the content of literature, but which one do they belong to in division? Say it belongs to poetry, and couplets do not require rhyme; Say it belongs to prose, and there are only two lines in the couplet; Suppose it belongs to a novel. Couplets do not necessarily have three elements: characters, backgrounds and stories. Let's just say it belongs to drama. Couplets are not used to perform on stage. It can be seen that couplets are independent literary genres besides these four literary genres. We should also see that the four major styles exist in China and other countries and regions in the world, but the only style is couplets, which only exist among people who use Chinese characters. Therefore, this style with China as the surname and famous couplets as the theme is a wonderful flower in the garden of Chinese culture and a unique literary genre in the world culture.

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