How to hit the topic of couplets

Yun said: The cleverness of couplets lies in the combination of virtuality and reality; 1. Grasp the essential characteristics of the people, things and things chanted to create couplets; a true hero will benefit the country and the people;; great achievements will shine through. Blue sky; This couplet was created in the Spring Festival of 2005 for Mr. Yang Liwei, the aerospace hero; 2. Cleverly place the people, things and things chanted in the couplet to create characteristics; special prize; the country spans thousands of years, and the world meets Liuhe, Listen to today's cockcrow in three provinces; merchants from all over the world, the city's development is diverse, watch the Phoenix in the east of the river lift nine

The sword is called "Jade Dragon", which not only reflects the white and bright image of the sword, but also reflects the appearance of the sword during the dance. The dragon is soaring; the wine is called "amber", which reflects its color and clear and bright characteristics; the sun is called "Cang Yuan", which reflects its shape and background characteristics; the spring grass is called "cold green" and the autumn flowers are called "cold green". "Cold Red" reflects the seasonal and color characteristics of both. Image thinking is not a process of judgment and reasoning, but a process of using images to connect, imagine and even fantasize.

How to keep the couplets to the point:

Yun said: The cleverness of the couplets to hit the topic lies in the combination of virtuality and reality. When writing about objects, the conventional way of writing is to write the physical appearance of the object in both upper and lower couplets. A slightly better method is to write one sentence about description and one sentence about quality (purpose, characteristics). It would be better if there is no appearance but the characteristics of the object are fully displayed. When writing about people and things, one should be factual and the other fictitious. One sentence revolves around a person or thing, and one sentence is a lyrical discussion. If it is a long couplet, both the upper and lower couplets can be arranged between the preceding and following clauses.

1. Create couplets by grasping the essential characteristics of the people, objects, and things being chanted. Such as:

A true hero who benefits the country and the people;

The great foundation and great achievements shine in the blue sky. (Liandu Dameng)

This couplet was written for the aerospace hero Mr. Yang Liwei during the Spring Festival in 2005 (see the first issue of "Chinese Couplets" in 2005). Yang Liwei is an aerospace hero, and his career is in the blue sky. The Lianzhong closely adheres to the two specific "scenes" of "blue sky" and "strong man", and basically covers everyone, every time and everything.

2. Cleverly place the people, objects and things you are chanting in the couplet, and write out the characteristics.

Special Prize

The country spans thousands of years, and we meet Liuhe. Listen to the cockcrow of three provinces today

Businessmen are from all over the world, and the city is diverse. Watch the Hedong Phoenix lift for nine days ( "Liandu" netizen (Jiangxi) Pan Yizhi)

This is "Liandu" netizen (Jiangxi) Mr. Pan Yizhi won the special prize in the Hedong "Today International Mall" domestic and overseas prize-winning competition Award couplet. "Hedong Today International Mall" is embedded in the couplet, which is very natural. This couplet mainly reflects the characteristics of the mall, the scenery of Hedong and the characteristics of the three provinces in the area. Couplet works should be positive, healthy in content, lofty in intention, elegant and popular, rich in literary and artistic color, and conform to the rhythm of couplets. They should try their best to organically combine traditional literary and artistic forms with modern business atmosphere, and combine profound cultural connotation with popular language. The text is well combined. Use couplets, a traditional literary and artistic wonder, to show the advertising effect of the mall.

Another example is a couplet on Hanjiang Restaurant in Guangzhou:

Han Yu was poor and Liu Ling was drunk;

Jiang Yan wrote a poem and Wang Can Climb the stairs.

This couplet cleverly quotes four historical figures closely related to poetry and wine: Han Yu, Liu Ling, Jiang Yan, and Wang Can. The name of the restaurant "Hanjiang Restaurant" is embedded at the beginning and end of the couplet, which is very appropriate.

Section 3: Expressing high and far-reaching aspirations

Emperor Shun said: "Poems express aspirations, and songs sing words." This is talking about the literary purpose of poetic style. The same is true for couplets. Poetry does not express ambition, and the author cannot express his own ideals, ambitions, ambitions, and tastes. From this point of view, "ambition" should be the soul of poetry. Couples and poems share the same writing method. Expression of ambition can be divided into two types: One is an intentional expression, and the other is an unintentional revelation.

The former is like the self-encouragement couplet written by Peng Yuanrui in the Qing Dynasty:

What is moving? Apricot blossoms in February and laurel in August;

Who urges me? The lights are on at three and the chicken is on at five.

Although it is the mentality of diligent study in the old era, it also has very good educational significance for today.

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Be a heroic soul for thousands of years and never return home.

A couplet by Su Shi collected by Gu Hongming belongs to the latter:

The load is gone and there is no rain cover;

The chrysanthemums still have frost branches.

Zhou Cezong's collection of poems and couplets seem to be revealed unconsciously and unintentionally, but they can best reveal the thoughts and interests of the characters.

Please see:

For whom do I leave the romantic moon? Two parts are dust, one part is running water;

When spring returns, it is nowhere to be found. The cherries turn red and the bananas turn green.

When Mencius was discussing poetry, he proposed two reading methods: "using one's will to counter one's will" and "knowing people and analyzing the world". The former means that only by fully understanding the work can one understand the author's thoughts; the latter It means that in order to understand a certain writer's work, you must have some understanding of the author's life experience. The two complement each other and will be of great help to us in appreciating the couplets. In the process of creating couplets, we must follow the purpose of "poetic expression of ambition" and emphasize a correct and serious writing attitude, because once a work is written, it will have certain social significance. If it is not handled well, it will make a joke in a minor case or make a joke in a serious case. It will also bring very bad social impact.

Section 4 Lyrical and Real

Lyric is the author expressing his inner thoughts and feelings in his works. It can "express one's feelings directly", which is called direct expression of emotion, or it can also "embede feelings in the scenery", which is called indirect expression of emotion. It carries the author's distinctive personality characteristics and reflects a certain sympathy of a certain era and a certain group of people, thereby enhancing the artistic appeal of the work. Lu Ji of the Jin Dynasty pointed out the theory of "poetry is related to emotion". The emotion he mentioned refers to people's spiritual mood, which includes the joys and sorrows of life, and is characterized by authenticity and touchingness.

Please take a look at Zhou Zuoren's couplet with Ma Yuqing:

On a moonlit night it is only a dream to look at the lantern;

What more is there to sleep on the pillow under the rainy window.

Ma Yuqing is a professor at Peking University and an old friend of Zhou. The first couplet describes that the two of them watched the lanterns together the day before, but died of illness just one dream (that is, one night) apart; the second couplet describes his own uneasy emotions in the wind and rain. The couplet is concise and concise. It neither writes about the deceased's life achievements nor his own grief and sorrow, but only writes about a space, using small things to show it, which is very poetic. This deep and sincere meaning comes entirely from the expression of emotion in the scenery. This kind of writing method is indirect lyricism. There is also a lyrical technique that is neither direct nor indirect. Literally, it seems that the whole article is describing the scenery, and not a word involves subjective emotions, but the author's thoughts and feelings have been melted into it in some ways.

For example, the Daming Lake couplet in Jinan, Shandong:

It is surrounded by lotuses and three by willows;

One city is surrounded by mountains and half is surrounded by lakes.

Section 5: Flexible Chapters

Chapter refers to the organizational structure of the article. Generally speaking, there is no set method to follow when writing couplets. In general, the couplets are flexible in composition, complete in meaning, fresh in language, and have outstanding themes and ideas. In the process of creation, we should still learn from some creation methods of poetry, so when we learn couplets, we also need to know some methods of writing poems, which is helpful for our creation of couplets.

For example, the couplet of Yongji Temple in Yanziji, Nanjing:

The sound of pines, bamboos, and bells and chimes are all at ease;

The scenery of mountains, water, The color of haze is empty.

This couplet is cleverly conceived. The first couplet describes the beauty of sound, using five characters for "sound" and using "sound and sound at ease" to compose a harmonious and beautiful symphony of nature. The second couplet describes visual beauty, and the beautiful mountains and waters are concluded with "emptiness", expressing the monks' otherworldly thoughts. The whole couplet alternates between sound and color, and the use of repetition techniques emphasizes what it sees and hears from different angles, making the couplet more vivid and the rhythm sonorous and powerful.

Please read a couplet written by Xu Da for his former residence:

As the river goes eastward, the heroes of all ages are swept away. I wonder where the green mountains and white clouds outside the building are, where is the Tang Palace and the Han Palace; Spring comes back in the small garden, and the orioles evoke a beautiful garden. Look at the green trees by the pool, and the red rain beside the trees. Here are the days of Shun and Yao.

The first two sentences of the first couplet are derived from Su Shi's poem "Niannujiao goes eastward across the Yangtze River", which triggers a nostalgia for the mountains and rivers of the motherland and a nostalgia for the past.

This is a large-scale writing, which unfolds a magnificent scene of turbulence and vastness for readers; the second couplet touches on small details, and the big things are seen from small things. They are scattered and orderly, so that people can see things, hear things, and have appropriate emotions. " "Asking" and "seeing" make the beginning, succession, transition and combination very appropriate, which is amazing.

In short, the composition of couplets must be flexible in application, careful, complete, well-organized, clear in context, and coherent. The kind of straightforward writing style is unstructured and unorganized. Better couplets are rarely written.