According to legend, somewhere, when a person just got off the sedan chair, it was raining in Mao Mao, and his father was moved by this scene. The sedan-chair couplet to be written is: "It just rains when the dragon walks to the West Lake"; When the sedan chair arrived at the woman's house, the rain stopped and the sun rose. The woman's family invited a scholar from her parents' family to make a couplet according to the weather, geographical location and human harmony at that time: "Sunrise in Dongling, Feng Ming." This couplet is neat and meaningful, which fully expresses the happy mood of young men and women in the prosperous times.
Among the wedding couplets, there is an embedded couplet, which is very popular with people. It is to embed the names of the bride and groom in couplets, which not only shows the ingenuity of writing couplets, but also highlights the protagonist in marriage.
For example: He, newly married Yan Er;
Democracy burns love and attachment.
Civilized, heroic and heroic
This couplet embeds the names of the groom and people in the upper couplet and the names of the bride in the lower couplet. This method of embedding their names in the upper or lower links is called horizontal embedding. Another is called vertical embedding. For example: Haifeng and Dehua get married;
Vows of eternal love, the virtue of marriage
The peak is full of plum blossoms, rich and glorious.
Embedding the word "sea breeze" into the first letters of the upper and lower couplets respectively; The word "Dehua" is embedded in the suffix of the upper and lower couplets respectively. Where the name is embedded is not specified, but depends on the content and the convenience of creation.
When writing such embedded wedding couplets, we should pay special attention to the name of the bride or groom. If it's a strange word, don't force it to hurt the sense of righteousness, so as to avoid a joke that doesn't make sense.
Nowadays, most of the wedding couplets are solemn in writing and basically maintain the traditional style, while some wedding couplets are unique and humorous.
For example, someone's wedding banquet for a math teacher:
Free love has no triangle.
A happy life has geometry.
A physics teacher married a math teacher, and a student sent a book:
Negative electricity and positive electricity attract each other.
Big circle, small circle, concentric circle, intimate blind date
An audience friend wrote a couplet for the marriage of two actors:
Ladies and bureaucrats are nothing more than jokes on weekdays.
There is a brother and a sister who really want to be husband and wife tonight.
Couplets are based on their usual performance "The Romance of the West Chamber", which is written in spoken language and full of fun.
Some wedding couplets are exaggerated and imposing. For example:
Take the cow in the sky, cut the horn and carve the shuttle, and weave silk to meet the lady.
Catch a rabbit in the middle of the month, draw a pen and write it as a talented phoenix.
Wedding 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 his troops to open up Huaishang area of Jinpu West Road on 1942 and lived in Li Guangyue's home in Longkangji, Huaiyuan County. He happened to have Li Wei's son's wedding and invited Mr. Peng to attend the wedding. Peng Xuefeng not only promised, but also personally wrote a pair of wedding couplets for his family:
Shu's long war of resistance
A Yi Shi ice rattan ring
This association integrates the propaganda of the Anti-Japanese War into the association and gives people the strength to struggle in the celebration.
There was a pair of wedding couplets during the land reform period, which also laid the brand of the times. The link is:
May all lovers in the world be good.
Let the proletarians on the ground turn over.
Couplets express the joy of working people's liberation.
With the development of couplets to this day, people keep giving it new contents. Especially since the implementation of the family planning policy in China, there are few couplets advocating early marriage and early childbearing, son preference and many children, and even fewer couplets advocating family planning and late marriage and late childbearing. For example:
Are girls or boys good for the country and the family?
Love each other and embroider three springs with one heart.
The couplet expounds the practical significance of family planning, and advocates having only one child, which is not only beneficial to the country, but also beneficial to the family. I wish the newlyweds great success with one heart and one mind.
Men go to women's homes, which used to be called "the son-in-law is adopted by his wife", which is quite biased in the secular world and is often despised. Now that men and women are equal, it is common for men to go to women's homes. Here is a wedding couplet that reflects people's distinct attitude.
A son is a son, and a son is a son, which adds beauty to beauty.
A daughter-in-law is a woman, and a woman is a daughter-in-law.