What does antithesis mean in Chinese?

Duality: A figure of speech in which phrases or sentences with the same or similar structure, equal number of words and relatively or closely related meanings are arranged in pairs. For example.

Silkworms in spring will weave until they die, and candles will turn to ashes before tears dry.

By going up one flight of stairs, look further.

Binary type

1. Right: Explain the same thing from two angles and two sides, and complement each other in content. The dual meaning of the previous sentence and the next sentence is similar, similar, complementary or contrasting. For example:

I can't bear to see that terrible sight; Gossip, especially when it reaches my ears.

Objection: The meaning of the context is opposite or relative. For example, the loss is full and the income is moderate.

Revolutionaries are loyal, although they are still alive; Careerists bring disaster to the country and people, and life is worse than death.

Third, string pair: contextual relevance (undertaking, coherence, progression, causality, hypothesis, conditions, etc. ) This is called string pairing. For example:

There is no way to go because of the winding water flow in the mountains, and a mountain village suddenly appears in the willow-green flower bay.

Wildfire can't burn it out, but the spring breeze can revive it.

Duality can be divided into two forms.

First, strict duality: the upper and lower sentences are required to have the same number of words, the same structure, relative parts of speech, and parallel words, and words cannot be used repeatedly. For example:

A broken hat covers the downtown, and a leaky boat carries wine. Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers, Head-bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.

Second, generalized duality: the five requirements of strict duality are not so strict as long as some of them are met. For example:

I often think: the willows are graceful, the peaches and plums are gorgeous and unusually bright. ...

Dual function

First, the content to be expressed can be highly summarized and concentrated.

Second, it can enhance the sense of rhythm, make the language neat, the sentences symmetrical, catchy and easy to remember and recite.

Application of duality

Duality is a rhetoric format with China style and China style, which is widely used. From ancient times to the present, there are a lot of double rhetorical devices in poetry, prose and other literary works.

First, applied to poetry:

Yesterday, I left, and the willows were reluctant; The road is muddy and difficult to walk, and people are thirsty and hungry.

One star, two stars, countless bright Mars, one hammer shadow, two hammer shadows, and countless fast-weighing iron shadows.

Second, when it is used in prose or other articles, it is mostly the duality of words or phrases, and there are also the duality of sentences, but it is rare. For example:

We stood in Orange Island and strolled along the banks of Xiangjiang River. Go back to Qingshuitang and climb Yuelu Mountain; Wandering the Bancang Trail, I am attached to Shaoshan's hometown.

Third, chapter titles used in proverbs, couplets and chapter novels. For example:

No monofilament forms a line, and no tree forms a forest. (proverb)

A big belly can hold things that are difficult to hold in the world; I often laugh when I open my mouth and laugh at ridiculous people in the world. (couplet)