Customs of wedding couplets

In our country, there is a custom in some places that when a girl gets married, she must sit in a sedan chair. In order to enhance the atmosphere, the sedan chair should be draped in red and decorated with couplets. When the time comes, they will stick to the left side of the sedan door and marry the girl to express a civilized marriage and a good relationship for a hundred years. At the same time, it also has the meaning of testing the talents of the two places.

According to legend, in a certain place, when a man's family was just getting up in a sedan chair, it was drizzling. The man's father was moved by the scene, so he drafted the couplet for the sedan chair as: "The dragon is walking on the West Lake and it has just received rain." When the sedan arrived at the woman's house, the rain stopped. sunrise. The girl's family invited a scholar from the family to write the second couplet based on the time, location, and people at that time: "Feng Ming Dong Ling is rising in the sun." This couplet has neat antitheses and meaningful meanings, fully expressing the joyful mood of the young man and woman having a new life and enjoying a prosperous life.

In wedding couplets, there is a type of couplet with embedded characters, which is very popular among people. It is to embed the names of the bride and groom into the upper and lower couplets, which not only shows the skill of writing the couplets, but also highlights the protagonists in the marriage.

For example: He Minran and Wenying's wedding couplet:

Democracy burns with love and attachment

Civilized Ying is angry and heroic

This couplet will The name of the groom Minran is embedded in the upper couplet, and the name of the bride Wenying is embedded in the lower couplet. This method of embedding their names in the upper or lower couplet is called horizontal embedding. There is another type called vertical inlay. For example: Haifeng and Dehua got married:

Eternal vows, virtue in marriage

Plum blossoms bloom on the top of the mountain, wealth and prosperity

Embed the word "Haifeng" in the The first word of the upper and lower couplets; the two words "Dehua" are embedded in the last words of the upper and lower couplets respectively. There is no rule as to where the name should be embedded, it should depend on the content and creative convenience.

When writing this kind of inlaid wedding couplet, special attention should be paid to the name of the groom or the bride. If it is a strange or unusual character, do not force it to harm the meaning or make it self-defeating, so as to avoid illogical jokes.

Today, most wedding couplets are written solemnly and basically maintain the traditional style in writing, but some wedding couplets are unique and humorous.

For example, someone gave a wedding couplet to a math teacher:

Free love has no triangle

Happy life has geometry

A certain physics teacher Married to a math teacher, I got a couplet from a student book:

Electrical sexual attraction of opposite sexes due to yin and yang electricity

A blind date in big and small circles, concentric circles and heart-to-heart

There is one A friend from the audience wrote a couplet for the wedding of two actors:

My wife is an official, she usually only performs dramas

My brother Yingmei, we really want to be husband and wife tonight

The concept of the couplet is based on "The Romance of the West Chamber" that they usually perform together, and the couplet is written in spoken language, which has a special interest.

Some wedding couplets are written with exaggeration and grandeur. For example:

Catch the ox in the sky, cut off the horns and carve the shuttle, weave the luan silk to welcome the lady

Catch the rabbit in the moon, pluck the hair, tie the pen, and write "Feng Tie Matches the Talented Man"

Marriage couplets also show the characteristics of the times. Peng Xuefeng, an outstanding general of our army and commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, led the troops to open up the Huaishang area on Jinpu West Road in 1942. He lived at Li Guangyue's home in Longkangji, Huaiyuan County. By chance, he met Li Guangyue who was organizing a wedding for his son. He invited Commander Peng to attend the wedding. Peng Xuefeng not only He agreed wholeheartedly and personally wrote a wedding couplet for his family:

Treat the country and cultivate the people for a long period of resistance

Ikea and Yili live happily together

This The Union will integrate the propaganda of the Anti-Japanese War into the Union, giving people the strength to fight in the celebration.

During the land reform period, there was a wedding couplet that also left the mark of the times. The couplet is:

May all lovers in the world get married

May all the proletarians on earth turn around.

The couplet expresses the joy of the working people being liberated.

With the development of marriage couples today, people continue to add new content to marriage couples. Especially since my country implemented the family planning policy, couplets that promote early marriage, early childbearing, preference for sons over daughters, and more children and more blessings, such as "Happy to see red plums bearing more children, smile to welcome green bamboos to give birth to grandchildren early", have become less common and have been replaced by It started with a couplet advocating family planning and late marriage and late childbearing.

For example:

Benefiting the country and the family, whether a girl or a boy is the same

Love each other and embroider the three spring seasons with one heart and one mind

The couplet explains the practical significance of family planning and advocates Having only one child will not only benefit the country, but also the family. I wish the newlyweds will work "with one heart and one mind" and achieve great success.

When a man comes to a woman’s house, it was formerly known as “recruiting a son-in-law to marry into the family”. The world is quite prejudiced against this and is often looked down upon. Nowadays, men and women are equal, and it has become normal for a man to visit a woman's house. Below is a wedding couplet that reflects people’s distinct attitudes.

A son-in-law is a son, a son is a son-in-law, and the best is the best.

Daughter-in-law is a daughter, and a daughter is a daughter-in-law. A kiss makes a kiss