Collect and appreciate Spring Festival couplets

1. The sound of reading is accompanied by the sound of wind and rain

The sound of reading is heard by the sound of wind and rain

Care about family affairs, national affairs, and everything in the world

This couplet was written by Gu Xiancheng, leader of the Donglin Party in the Ming Dynasty ("Ming Lian Tan Qu" 275). Gu founded Donglin Academy in Wuxi. After giving lectures, he often commented on government affairs. Later, people used it to advocate "reading without forgetting to save the country", which still has positive significance today. The first couplet combines the sound of reading and the sound of wind and rain, which is both poetic and profound. The second line contains the ambition of harmonizing the family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world. The wind is against the rain, the home is against the country, the ear is against the heart, it is extremely neat, especially the repeated words in conjunction, like hearing the sound of books.

(Volume 6 of "Couplets") There is a couplet (Volume 6 of "Couplets") at Yongji Temple next to Yanziji in Nanjing:

The sound of pines, the sound of bamboos, the sound of bells and chimes The sound is free

The mountains, water, haze, and colors are all empty

An original couplet from Fangguang Temple in Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang (page 139 of Su Wenyang's "Ancient and Modern Couples") says:

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The sound of the wind, the sound of water, the sound of insects, the sound of birds, the chanting of Sanskrit, the sound of bells, the sound of the bell, is silent for three hundred and sixty days

The moonlight, the color of the mountains, the color of the grass, the color of the trees, the color of the clouds, and the color of the clouds are more than 48,000 feet tall. The peaks and mountains are all colored and empty

The above two couplets use the same artistic method as the first couplet, and there is no author or date. Therefore, it cannot be determined who is the innovation and who is the imitation; but it can be explained that the same artistic method is , can express completely different thoughts and interests.

2. The Nine-Chong Festival is celebrated on the fortress

Eighty-year-old kings celebrate their birthdays everywhere by the eighteen fair roads

The Nine-Chong Emperor pays tribute to the Nine Festivals every year 觞

This couplet is a new couplet of Wansongling Palace (Volume 2 of "Couplets Cong Hua") collaborated by Peng Yuanrui and Ji Xiaolan. The first couplet is written by Peng Yuanrui, and the second couplet is answered by Ji Xiaolan. Before the Double Ninth Festival in the 55th year of Qianlong's reign (1790), Qianlong returned from hunting at Mulan Paddock in Rehe and stayed at Wansongling Palace. The couplet is a eulogy for Qianlong's 80th birthday. The beauty lies in the specific person (Qianlong), the specific place (Wansongling), and the specific time (Double Ninth Festival). It also uses split characters (Song-Shiba Gong) and repeated characters (everywhere, Year) and the high skill of inverting the two characters "self-respect and self-pair" (eighty, eighteen; nine, double nine) are not clichés or word games. Although they are flattering works, they can be said to be the best couplets.

3. I won’t go home this season

There is no car, no fish, contemporary Mengchang can be a guest for me

I won’t go home this season until my gold is exhausted. Home

This couplet is a Spring Festival couplet made by "Lian Sheng" Fang Dishan. Fang is a disciple of Yuan Shikai and the teacher of Yuan Hanyun, the second son of Yuan Shikai ("Famous Lianqutan" 284). One Spring Festival he wrote this couplet, saying that my boss treated me very well and he would not go home during the Spring Festival this year. Fang praised his boss as Lord Mengchang and compared himself to Su Qin. He praised both his boss and himself. It was indeed a generous "masterpiece". When Mr. Wang Junshi taught this couplet in the 1940s, he used another version. The second couplet is "The gold is not finished, the clothes are not worn". Unfortunately, its origin is unknown.

This couplet is structurally composed of two three-character sentences and one seven-character sentence. It has a strong sense of rhythm when read. It is expressed as a binary sequence: 110, 110, 1100011/001, 001, 0011100 It can be seen that the three-character sentence pattern is repeated once, and overlaps with the first three characters of the seven-character sentence pattern. Therefore, structurally, the three-character sentence pattern is only a partial repetition of the seven-character sentence pattern. This is the best structure we didn't mention above. This couplet is also very particular about the use of allusions. The first couplet uses the story "Feng Xuan Ke Meng Changjun" and the second couplet uses the story "Su Qin Yi Lianheng talks about Qin", both of which come from "Warring States Policy". Reading this couplet is equivalent to reviewing two famous works.

4. The east wall is inverted and the west wall is inverted

The east wall is inverted and the west wall is inverted to see the beauty of the house

The front alley is deep and the back alley is so deep that no traffic or horses can be heard. Zhiyin

Zhu Xi presented a couplet to a scholar in Zhangzhou (Volume 1 of "Couplets"). Zhu Xi was an acting scholar of the Song Dynasty, but he was not always as sanctimonious as people imagined. This couplet is very humane and humorous. It depicts a scholar. Although his living conditions are poor, his family is harmonious and his life is happy. Although no one comes to visit him, he can study with peace of mind. The first couplet is a bit exaggerated, but the contrast is strong. This is the earliest use of rhyming couplets.

It’s shameful to have guests drunk but no one to sleep with. Simple and simple songs are shameful

Long songs, thick short songs and sparse poems are ordinary chatting for self-entertainment

Liang Zhangju also wrote a couplet in rhyme as above (Volume 12 of "Couplets Cong Hua").

This couplet hangs in the "Tenghua Yin Pavilion" and records his life and self-evaluation in Fuzhou after he returned home due to illness at the age of 58. The use of rhyme in the couplet is not necessary, but the use of rhyme makes it easier to read. Ten years later, he revised this couplet:

Guests come, drunken guests go to bed, old people have nothing to do, it’s a shame

On learning, politics, poetry, not having a family, talking about oneself Entertainment

This couplet hangs in the "Thatched Cottage" in Pucheng when he was 68 years old (Volume 2 of "Continuation of Couplets"). Comparing the two couplets, we can understand that Liang Zhangju also put a lot of effort into poetry.

New acquaintances, old acquaintances, we have an appointment at the spring night, so it’s time to ask, what night is it tonight? The same moonlight and lights should be looking for

Traveling here, traveling there, the scenery is so fun, there is no end, the situation is ahead Teahouses and restaurants were left behind for the next few times

This couplet was written by He Danru (1820-?) for the "Spring Colorful Competition" in Foshan (Article 54 of "Famous Couplets Talking about Fun"). It describes the joyful scene of the Lantern Festival among the people: the lights and the moon shine together, and there are so many tourists, what a beautiful spring night!

The use of rhyme strengthens the cheerful and romantic atmosphere.

5. A drunkard calls the sacred herb

The calligraphy reaches the gods, the paper leaves the clouds, and the eight methods are passed down in ancient and modern times

The drunkard calls the holy herb a good time when the house is full of storms Lay three cups

This is a couplet written by Liang Zhangju for the Cao Sheng Temple in Changshu, Jiangsu Province (Volume 1 of "Couplet Continuation"). Zhang Xu of the Tang Dynasty was a county captain in Changshu. He was good at cursive calligraphy and was addicted to alcohol. Whenever he was drunk, he screamed and ran away wildly before writing. He was known as the "Sage of Cursive Calligraphy" in the world. This couplet brings Zhang Xu's writing and drinking style to life. It's like seeing the person, watching his words.

Different generations and different times asked about such a country, how many poets and poets crouched in the country

The teacher also lived in a thatched cottage with a long flow, a sky and an earth, a moon, a white wind, and a clear wind

This is the Qing Dynasty A couplet written by the contemporary poet Gu Fuchu for Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu (page 148 of "Ancient and Modern Couplets"). Du Fu is the "Poet Sage", his style is different from that of the "Cao Sage", and the thatched cottage is not an ancestral temple. This couplet focuses on the times.

The first couplet sighs and says that there have been several poets like Du Fu in thousands of years. The second line says that even a poet like this was not proud at the time, but his spiritual wealth has been passed down.