What kinds of couplets are there?

Types of couplets: generally divided into Spring Festival couplets, wedding couplets, birthday couplets, congratulations couplets, elegiac couplets, opera couplets, fun couplets, popular couplets, topic couplets, sets of couplets, etc.

Spring Festival couplets are used to celebrate the Spring Festival and the New Year. Couplets are used to congratulate the wedding; Birthday couplets are used to celebrate birthdays; Congratulatory couplets are used to congratulate children, marry women, move and other happy events; The elegiac couplet is used to mourn the dead; Couplets refer to the couplets on temple figures and pillars.

Popular antithesis refers to those simple and popular folk couplets; Inscription couplets refer to couplets dedicated to the mountains and rivers of the motherland and to friends; The antithetical couplets are composed of antithetical couplets in ancient Chinese and poetry.

The basic characteristics and requirements of couplets;

1, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be completely consistent and unified, and there cannot be one long and one short, more or less. The short couplet of several words is like this, and so is the long couplet of several hundred words.

2. The words of the upper and lower couplets should be flush, so that the timbre and music can be beautiful. For example, the first part is "the stars are leaning down from the clearing" and the second part is "the moon is running up from the river". The flatness of the upper part of the word is flat and even; The flat lines in the bottom line are flat lines, which are just the opposite.

The upper and lower parts of speech of each word should be relative, that is, noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, numeral to numeral, adverb to adverb. For example, "firecrackers kill the old year, peach blossoms change thousands of families for the New Year." Among them, "firecrackers" and "peach symbols", "sound" and "ten thousand households", "except" and "change", "old year" and "new year" are all parts of speech relative.

4. The sentence pattern and sentence pattern of the upper and lower couplets must be the same, and the upper and lower couplets are relative, and the left and right are relative. For example, Comrade Chen Yi once wrote a couplet with Lu Xun's arm in his arm. The first part is "I will never forgive Reservoir Dogs if I want to beat him. If you know how to advance and retreat, you will be more than a literary pioneer. " The second part is "don't be a short writer, hate helping others all your life, dare to laugh and scold, and be worthy of ideological authority."

Although this couplet is long, the sentence pattern and sentence pattern are consistent, which meets the requirements of neatness. The words used in couplets should be artistic, subtle and refined, clear and accurate, fresh and elegant, and avoid empty talk and slogan sentences.