Hi Lian's introduction:

As a kind of couplets, couplets are a unique literary and artistic form in China. Also known as couplets, couplets and couplets. Generally speaking, it refers to couplets used for festive weddings, which are called wedding couplets. Hanging or pasting couplets on walls, columns, doorways and both sides of doors is a unique literary form, which embodies the life interest of China people.

Introduction:

Couplets are evolved from China's classical poems. Its origin can be traced back to the antithetical sentences in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. There are many antithetical sentences in poems and parallel prose of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. In the metrical poems of the Tang Dynasty, couplets and necklaces must be neatly opposed and have the characteristics of couplets. According to the record of "New Year's Qing Yu, Festival", the couplets on the pillars on the door actually exist independently. Changchun was first written by Meng Changjun in the Five Dynasties.

In the Song Dynasty, couplets gradually became a world trend. The flourishing age of Ming and Qing dynasties was rich and varied, and a large number of long couplets appeared. Chengdu Wangjiang Building has long couplet 2 12, and Jiangjin Linjiang Building has long couplet 16 12.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), couplets have become a popular literary form for the masses to praise their new life and express their best wishes. Couplets can be divided into Spring Festival couplets, wedding couplets and elegiac couplets because of different times and occasions. The couplets posted during the Spring Festival are called Spring Festival couplets. The couplets hung on a festive wedding are called wedding couplets; The couplets hung when mourning and commemorating the dead are called elegies.

Features:

Its basic characteristics are neat antithesis, alternate leveling and leveling, moving rhythm and beautiful artistic conception. There is no rule on the number of words. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a traditional literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, except those who died at home and have not passed the third anniversary, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival.

Spring Festival couplets are composed of two vertical couplets and one horizontal couplet. Its characters vary in length, from one or two words to hundreds of words. There are various forms of couplets, such as pairs, pairs, flowing pairs, couplets, set sentence pairs and so on.