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antithetical couplet

Couplets, also known as antithesis, door-to-door, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets and so on. It is a antithesis written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique artistic form of Chinese. Couplets are the treasures of China traditional culture.

Couplets, also known as antithesis, antithesis, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, Taofu and couplets (named after the pillars hung in halls and houses in ancient times), are a kind of dual literature, which originated from Taofu. Another source is the spring release. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more in beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

Couplets are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of China language, concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure.

Knowledge expansion:

Parallel prose and rhyme are two direct sources of couplets. In the process of its own development, couplets have absorbed the characteristics of ancient poetry, prose, lyrics and songs.

Therefore, in addition to regular poems and parallel prose sentences, the sentence patterns used in couplets also include ancient poems, prose sentences and imitation sentences. Different sentence patterns have different metrical patterns and different leniency. Among them, the sentence pattern of regular poems is the most stringent, while the sentence pattern of ancient poems has no restrictions except the end of the sentence.

Couplets are short in form and concise in wording, which is not only a vivid artistic expression, but also an excellent cultural heritage. Couplets are developed on the basis of ancient "Fu Tao" and "antithesis". The earliest Spring Festival couplets in China appeared more than 1000 years ago.

According to historical records, on the eve of the Spring Festival in the twenty-seventh year of Zheng Guang in the post-Shu Dynasty (AD 964), Meng Chang, the master of the post-Shu State, was good at learning couplets on weekdays, so when the New Year came, he suddenly ordered his ministers to write couplets on the "Fu Tao Board" to test his talents. Ministers each wrote a picture and waited patiently for the inspection.

Meng Chang looked at them one by one, but they were not satisfied. So he personally put pen to paper and wrote "Qing Yu in the New Year" on the "Fu Tao Board"; The festival number is Changchun. " This is the earliest Spring Festival couplets written by China.