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How to write a letter format

The basic format of ancient Chinese letters should be noted in letters: status, title, branch line, title, and ending.

The so-called location means that the name and title of the recipient are written on the first line at the beginning.

The sender's signature should be less than half of the entire letterhead.

Header letter refers to the old-style letter, where the elderly recipient is left blank or on a new line to show respect.

A branch is a segmented statement used to avoid clutter.

Leave two words blank before the beginning of each paragraph. Write in several paragraphs when describing different contents.

Titles, different identities have different terms.

For example, for parents, use knee down and knee down; for elders, use zunqian, zunyou, qianjian, junjian, and shiyou; for ordinary people, use taiqi, dajian, huijian, and taipou; for women, use yijian and cijian.

;For teachers, use letters, altar seats, etc.

Nowadays, it is generally no longer used. Comrade, Mr., etc. are often used as honorific titles. It is also not a bad idea to add Huijian, Taijian, Cijian, etc.

After the letter is written, a closing sentence is added, commonly known as "closing the door."

For example, "Praise to Jun'an", "Ask for the near future", "Wish you good health", "Salute to you", as well as the more simple forms of Chun'an, Dong'an, and Riqi... Use "specialize" in social interactions

"Blessings to Taiwan".

There are also hurried and careless words such as "hurriedly but not finished", "hurriedly and endlessly", "not enough to say", "sorry not to write more", etc.

"Letter" is used as a compound word, but in ancient times there was a difference between "book" and "letter". "Book" refers to letters; "letter" refers to the messenger, that is, the person who delivers the letter.

Han Yuefu's "Ancient Poetry for Chuan Chongqing's Wife" Liu Lanzhi asked her mother to tell the matchmaker sent by the county magistrate: "You can break the letter of rice by yourself, and you can tell it more slowly." A letter is a messenger who comes to matchmakers.

"Three Kingdoms".

In the 16th year of Jian'an in the Book of Wei? Chronicles of Emperor Wu: "(Ma) Chao was stationed in Xiaonan and sent a letter to ask for peace to the west of the cut river, but the Duke refused." The "letter" here also refers to the messenger.

This meaning of "letter" is commonly found in the documents of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and cannot be misunderstood as the "letter" of the post-uprising period.

However, in "Book of Jin? Lu Ji Zhuan", "book" and "letter" have been combined into words, and "letter" is often seen in shopkeeper's poems, and there is a Sichuan method that only uses "letter" to refer to letters.

For example, Wang Changling's "Send to Mu Shi Yu out of Youzhou": "There are few letters from Jimen, and the wild geese fly to Hengyang"; Jia Dao's "Send to Han Chaozhou for Recovery": "The chapter is separated from the mountains by the mountains, and the letters from the customs pass through Longliu

"; Yuan Zhen's "Reward Lotte Sighs Poverty and Sorrow Sees Mail": "As I get older, my mood decreases with each passing day, and I hear letters from far away every other year." They all use "letters" in succession.

If we think that the "letter" in these three poems still refers to the person who sends the "book", then there is no need to doubt that the "letter" in this poem is a synonym for "book".

Yuan Zhen's "Shu Le Tian Zhi": "There are some scraps of paper in the Jinluan Palace, begging to the Yuan judge in Jingzhou. I couldn't bear to use them for free, so I wrote half a letter from the capital and half a poem." The letter from the capital was sealed, which obviously refers to an object, and the meaning is very clear.

It can be seen that although the meaning of "letter" in correspondence is of late origin, it is not very late.

The ancient meaning of "book" referring to letters is still used today.

It is common to write "Hui Shu Feng Xi" as a classical Chinese expression for "receiving a letter".