Couplets are the traditional culture of China, with different lengths.

Couplets, also known as antithesis, antithesis, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, Taofu and couplets (named after the pillars hanging in halls and houses in ancient times), are a kind of dual literature, which originated from Taofu. It is a antithetical sentence written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of Chinese, concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure.

According to legend, couplets originated from Meng Changjun, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. They are the traditional cultural treasures of the Han nationality. Spring Festival couplets are called Spring Festival couplets, funeral couplets are called elegiac couplets, and happy couplets are called violet couplets. Couplets are a national style written by using the characteristics of Chinese characters, and generally do not need to rhyme (only the antitheses in the rhyme need to rhyme). Couplets can be roughly divided into poetry couplets and prose couplets (with the rise of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, prose couplets were excluded. Prose couplets are generally informal, straightforward, and don't shy away from the important, and don't overemphasize the equivalence of parts of speech.

Spring Festival couplets have a long history. It is said that they originated from Meng Changjun, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. He inscribed on the peach symbol on the door of the dormitory: "New Year's Eve, Qing Yu, the number of festivals, Changchun", which means the word "inscribed peach symbol" (see "Shu Lang"). This is the earliest couplet in China and the first Spring Festival couplet. [2-3]

As a custom, couplets are an important part of Han traditional culture. In 2005, the custom of couplets was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in the State Council, China. The custom of couplets is passed down and spread in Chinese-speaking areas and ethnic groups with cultural origins of Chinese characters, which is of great value for promoting Chinese culture.

The style of couplets has a long history. As early as the Zhou and Qin dynasties, people had the custom of hanging peach symbols in front of their doors to ward off ghosts and evil spirits. In fact, the antithesis in ancient books is the real shadow of couplets. In the Book of Songs, "I have been there, Liu Yiyi; Today I think it's raining "; In the history books, "full of losses, modest benefits." ; The Analects of Confucius "learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous." And so on can be called neat. But after all, it is dual, not couplets, at best, it is only the prototype of couplets. As for the earliest couplets, it is usually said that during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Meng Chang of Houshu wrote an inscription: "Qing Yu welcomes the new year, and the first festival is named Changchun."

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, many literati liked to focus on dialogue. Li Bai's "Three mountains and a half fall into the sky, like this Egret Island divides the river." ; "Silkworms in spring are spinning until they die, and candles will drain the wick every night." Li Shangyin. ? Du Fu "cares about the frequency of the world and offers sincerity to two generations." Wait a minute. They are all well-known famous sentences, and the antithesis is also divided into ten parts.

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty appreciated and loved couplets very much and advocated couplets. On New Year's Eve in Jinling, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he ordered civil and military officials in every household to post couplets. He himself went deep into the masses and created many couplets of famous sentences through the ages. His practice has made great contributions to the promotion and development of couplets, and couplets have also developed greatly during this period.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, couplets really reached their peak. Couplets have become an indispensable item in the imperial examination, and no one can cope with it when it comes to Jinshi and Juren. Because the emperor liked it, the ministers in the DPRK studied hard to win the appreciation of their masters.

Numerous couplets did appear during this period, including Jie Jin, Tang Yin and Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty. Ji Xiaolan, Ruan Yuan and Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty all had masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. Sun Ranweng's Kunming Daguan Pagoda is known as "the first long couplet in ancient and modern times", while Zhong's Jiangjin Linjiang Pagoda is 16 12, which is unprecedented.

Attached:

The first part: the moon under water is the moon in the sky;

Bottom line: People in the eyes are people in front of us.

The first part: Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties;

The second part: four poems of Yasong.

The first part: Panasonic Go, pine nuts fall with the chess pieces;

Bottom line: Fishing by the willow often hangs some silk on it.

The first part: Heaven is a chessboard star, and the sun and the moon win glory;

Bottom line: thunder is the drum flag, and the wind and cloud are combined.

The first part: the waterwheel will transport water, and the water will follow the car, and the car will stop supplying water;

Downlink: Fan Fan, Fan Fan, Fan Fan and Fan Fan.

The first part: There are seven ducks floating in the pond, counting three pairs.

Bottom line: A foot-long fish jumps into the water, 9 inches 10 minutes long.

The first part: broken pomegranate, red door polyacid seeds;

Bottom line: Bite open ginkgo, an adult in white.

Shanglian: the gate of thousands of bamboos; Bottom line: There are thousands of books in my family.

Shanglian: the door is short and thousands of bamboo; Bottom line: thousands of books, the family shopkeeper.

The first part: the door lacks thousands of bamboos; Bottom line: I have a family in thousands of books.

The first part: lotus root (even) because of lotus (him),

The second part: Apricot (lucky) doesn't need plum (medium).

Shanglian: neither old nor old;

Bottom line: No one is a scholar.

The first part: the green water is worry-free, and the face is wrinkled by the wind;

Bottom line: Qingshan is not old, it is a snow-white head.

Shanglian: A cart of heavy mud meets the sub-road;

The second part: the Lord of the two dikes looks back and smiles.

Part one: I stole peaches from the dog hole yesterday. I wonder who it is.

Bottom line: I must have been there when he climbed Guangxi in Bukan Palace.

Shanglian: Take in the two rivers, arrange eight arrays, catch six out of seven, light forty-nine lights before five posts, and concentrate on three concerns;

Downlink: Take the people from West Shu and Dingnan, and refuse the east and the north, and change the divination of Jin Mu Tugui in China's army account, so that the water surface can be attacked by fire.

Shanglian: Lotus seeds are bitter in heart;

Bottom line: Pear's stomach is sour.

The first part: Thirty years ago, the county exam was unknown, the government exam was unknown, the road exam was unknown, and people could not see it;

The second part: 80 days, the provincial examination first, the Beijing examination first, the palace examination first. Take off your blue robe and go home.

The first part: Confucius was born at the end of the boat (Zhou);

The second part: Light dance (martial arts) began in Hanzhong.

The first part: a big belly can accommodate things that are difficult to accommodate in the world;

Bottom line: open your mouth and laugh at the ridiculous people in the world.