What is the format of the couplets for Chinese New Year?

Format:

1, the number of words in the two couplets is not limited, but the number of words must be equal and the breaks are consistent.?

2, the level and oblique oblique, tone and harmony. Traditionally, it is customary to use the "oblique tone", where the last word of the first sentence is the oblique tone (three or four tones) and the last word of the second sentence is the flat tone (one or two tones).

3. The words should be relative and in the same position. Generally known as "virtual to virtual, real to real", that is, noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, quantifier to quantifier, adverb to adverb, and the relative words must be in the same position.

4, to content related, up and down connection. The meanings of the upper and lower couplets must be connected with each other, and the meanings of the two couplets must have some connection, which can be similar, similar, or opposite, but cannot be repeated.

Expanded Information:

1, couplets, also known as couplets, door pairs, spring stickers, spring couplets, pairs, peach charms, couplets (because in ancient times more hanging in the building halls and mansions of the pillar and named), is a kind of couplet literature, originated in the peach charms. It is a pair of statements written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood or pillars. Simple words with deep meaning, neat pairs of words, coordinated pairs of words, the same number of words and the same structure, it is a unique art form of the Chinese language.

2, couplets are the treasures of traditional Chinese culture, the earliest historical records of couplets appeared in the Three Kingdoms era. Ming Hongwu years (1368-1399), in Jiangxi Luling (now Jiangxi Province, Ji'an City) place, unearthed a large iron cross, cast on the Three Kingdoms era Sun Quan Chiwu years (238-250). In the iron cross and cast a beautifully artistic couplet cloud: "the four seas to celebrate the peace and prosperity, the iron pillar of precious light to stay in the cross; ten thousand people to embrace the great Zephyr, the golden furnace incense seal seal affinity a thousand years." The form and content of these couplets are related to those of the early Chinese Christians. The couplets hung during the Spring Festival are called Spring Couplets, the couplets for funerals are called elegiac couplets, and the couplets for joyous occasions are called celebratory couplets. Couplets are a national genre written using the characteristics of the Chinese characters, and generally do not need to rhyme (only the couplets in a regular poem need to rhyme).

3. The two direct sources of the couplet are ekphrasis and metered verse. In the process of its own development, the couplet absorbed the characteristics of ancient poetry, prose, words and music. Therefore, the sentence form used in the couplet, in addition to the rhythmic verse sentence form, parallelism sentence form, there are ancient poetry sentence form, prose sentence form, imitation lyrics and music sentence form. Different sentence styles are applied with different laws and different degrees of severity. Among them, the most stringent requirements for the level and narrowness of poetic lines, ancient poetic lines, in addition to the requirements for the level and narrowness of the end of the sentence, and other positions of the level and narrowness of the unconstraints.

4. Couplets, as a custom, are an important part of traditional Chinese culture, and in 2005, the State Council of China listed the custom of couplets as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. The custom of couplets has been passed down and spread among Chinese people and people who use Chinese language around the world as well as those who have cultural origin with Chinese characters, which is of great value for the promotion of Chinese national culture.

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