Who is the founder of couplets?

Couplets, also known as couplets or pairs, are pairs of statements written on paper or cloth or carved on bamboo, wood or pillars that are simple and meaningful, neatly matched and harmonized, and are a unique art form of the Chinese language with one word and one tone. Couplets are rumored to have begun in the Five Dynasties after the Lord of Shu, Meng Chang. It is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation.

Couplets originated in the Qin Dynasty and were called peach symbols in ancient times. Regarding the earliest couplets in China, Mr. Tan Cicangxue wrote an article in the fourth issue of 1991 of Knowledge of Literature and History, pointing out that the earliest couplets in China appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

Couplets, also known as couplets and couplets, are a kind of couplet literature that originated from peach notes. They generally do not need to rhyme (only the couplets in legal poems need to rhyme). Couplets can be roughly divided into poetry couplets, to spring customs and prose couplets, strict distinction between the size of the words relative to each other. Traditional couplets are more neatly organized than the so-called poetic couplets.

With the rise of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, prose couplets were excluded. Prose couplets generally do not stick to the level and oblique, do not avoid heavy words, and do not overemphasize lexical equivalence without losing their counterpoint.

Couplets have a long history, and are said to have begun in the Five Dynasties, after the Lord of Shu, Meng Chang. His inscriptions on the board of the peach runes at the door of his bedchamber: "New Year's Day, the festival number of spring", so-called text "title peach runes" (see "Shu Legend"). This is to be counted as the earliest couplets in our country, but also the first pair of spring couplets

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