How to make couplets?

Couplets vary in length, only one or two words are short; It can be hundreds of words long. There are various forms of couplets, such as pairs, pairs, flowing pairs, couplets, set sentence pairs and so on. But no matter what kind of couplets are used, they must have the following characteristics:

1, words are equal and sentences are consistent. In addition to deliberately leaving a place for a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be the same, neither more nor less.

2. Be straightforward and have a harmonious tone. The traditional habit is to curl up and fall flat, that is, curl up at the end of the last sentence and curl up at the end of the last sentence.

3. Parts of speech should be relative and in the same position. It is generally called "virtual to virtual, real to real", which means that nouns to nouns, verbs to verbs, adjectives to adjectives, quantifiers to quantifiers, adverbs to adverbs and related words must be in the same position.

4. Be content-related, from top to bottom. The meaning of up and down links must be interrelated, but they cannot be repeated.

In addition, the traditional practice of hanging couplets must be written straight and pasted vertically, from right to left and from top to bottom, and cannot be reversed.

Extended data:

The ten artistic styles of couplets can be roughly divided into 10 styles from the perspective of genre: regular poem style, folk song style, prose style, opera style, inflectional style, idiom style, circuitous style, mysterious style and parallel prose style.

According to different local customs, the time for posting Spring Festival couplets is slightly different. As the saying goes: "Twenty-eight, decals", and in some local folk songs, there is a saying that "Twenty-nine, Spring Festival couplets are posted upside down", which means that Spring Festival couplets are posted on the 28th and 29th of the twelfth lunar month, but most people still choose the time to post them according to their own schedule.

Different from the concentrated time of posting Spring Festival couplets, the time of picking Spring Festival couplets varies greatly from place to place. According to different local folk customs, there are three main types: year-round theory, festival theory and natural shedding theory.

As the Spring Festival couplets are auspicious in folk customs, it is immoral to destroy (burn, tear, smear, etc.). ) Spring Festival couplets are casual.

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