What is the knowledge about couplets?

Couplets are the treasures of traditional Chinese culture, and the earliest recorded couplets appeared in the Three Kingdoms era. During the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1399), in the place of Luling, Jiangxi Province (present-day Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province), an extra-large iron cross was unearthed, on which was casted the year number of Sun Quan Ch'iwu in the Three Kingdoms era (238-250).

Couplets, as a custom, are an important part of traditional Chinese culture, and in 2005, China's State Council listed the practice 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 even in regions around the world where the Chinese language is used, as well as among ethnic groups with cultural origins in Chinese characters, and is of great value to the promotion of Chinese national culture.

Categorized by use:

1. Spring Couplets: door couplets for the New Year.

2, congratulatory couplets: birthday, marriage, housewarming, birth, opening and other celebrations.

3, gift couplets: praise or exhortation of others.

4, self-motivation: self-motivation.

5, industry association: different industries in the door or store with.

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Origin of the couplet:

The couplet is a treasure of traditional Chinese culture, the earliest recorded couplets appeared in the Three Kingdoms era. During the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1399), in the place of Luling, Jiangxi Province (present-day Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province), a large iron cross was unearthed, on which the year number of Sun Quan Ch'iwu of the Three Kingdoms era (238-250) was cast. 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."

Looking at its form and content, it is associated with early Chinese Christians. The couplets hung during the Spring Festival are called spring couplets, those for funerals are called elegiac couplets, and those for joyous occasions are called celebratory couplets. Couplets are a national literary style written in Chinese characters, and generally do not need to rhyme (only the couplets in poems need to rhyme).