Chinese Couplet
Spring Festival couplets custom
And the prose couplet, strictly distinguish the size of relative. Traditional couplet antithesis than the so-called poem couplet neatly.
Tang poetry, prose with couplet is excluded. Prose couplet well not avoid commonly, do not emphasize the emphasis and antithesis, nominal quite.
Couplets, long after the fifth in the MengChang shu. He lay in TaoFu door board, the captioned “New Year holiday yuqing, changchun,” no “wen”, “the TaoFu problem is the earliest Chinese couplets, is also the first spring couplets.
Allied with foreign, or to the meaning, or was placed with. The deep meaning of words, and also do not say no couplet of prose.
Features:
An equal number, suffered. Except a word to empty out the position to achieve certain effect, ShangXiaLian words must be the same, no more, no less.
Second, the verb to verb, adjective for adjectives, adverbs, for quantifiers in that the word, and relative adverbs of time must be in the same position.
Third, well, tone harmonious. YunJiao according to YunJiao part, such as ZeSheng for YunJiao allied, misuse, should receive “emotion” rubato-lento-moderato-allegro-rubato, on the contrary, if YunJiao linked to misuse, so YunJiao allied for ZeSheng, “draw up or emotion. Both of these requirements for its.
Four, content, and cohesion. Ming dynasty, zhu yuanzhang energetically advocate couplet. He is now in jinling (nanjing) after its capital, ministers, officials and the common people’s New Year’s eve before writing a antithetical couplets must be posted on the door, and he himself wearing clothes he begs from house to watch, amusement. When the literati TiLian also resist the joy of elegant, write a moment of spring become social fashion.