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Wedding couplets are divided into different categories according to the contents and objects of couplets, which refer to couplets used by people to congratulate others on their marriage and are a joy in life. Relatives and friends present wedding couplets as congratulations, which are quite grand, elegant and meaningful. Wedding couplets should be written or selected according to the posting location.
Wedding invitation is a kind of wedding invitation, which is specially posted on the door, hatchback, hall and door of the new house. This kind of wedding is full of rich local customs, profound meaning, auspicious and festive. Its content also includes the idea of newlyweds' marriage, mutual respect and love, harmony between the piano and the harp, and growing old together.
Many wedding couplets have gorgeous literary talent, which is both deep and tasteful, appealing to both refined and popular tastes, not only brightening the walls at home, but also teaching us a lot.
Couplets are mostly taken from poems, allusions, aphorisms and proverbs, and some are combined with animals and plants. For example, there is a common couplet on the new door: "Red leaves write poems to tie a good marriage, and red ropes tie enough to tie a good marriage." The allusion of the poem "Red Leaves" refers to that when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was in China, Mr. Lu W, the scheerer, accidentally picked up a red leaf from the imperial canal, wrote a quatrain on it and hid it in a box.
Later, Xuanzong asked the maid-in-waiting to marry, and Lu W went to choose the poet. After the marriage, the maid-in-waiting found the red leaves in the box, and Lu Wofang knew that the poem was written by his wife, so their feelings became more harmonious.
There are some wedding couplets with overlapping sentences on the lattice bamboo window of the new house, which is quite novel and elegant. For example, "Birds love love the water, brothers and sisters love each other, clouds match the moon, leaves match flowers, beautiful women match handsome men" and "newlyweds are happy and the wedding is always complete."
The traditional wedding couplets pay attention to literary talent and have no content of the times, while the modern wedding couplets pay more attention to educational significance and obey the requirements of rules and regulations, which are mostly boring. Therefore, people who write couplets urgently need to improve their cultural literacy.
Recently, there are many wedding couplets on the topic of family planning in mountain villages, such as "changing customs to change families, and letting good children and students replace red", "It is good to have only one child, and it is good for both families to get married and break customs" and "advocating late marriage and helping each other learn, and family planning is beneficial to the country and the people." Although these couplets lack literary talent, they are very contemporary and easy to read and interpret.
As early as before the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was a custom of hanging peach symbols in the New Year, which lasted for more than 1000 years. In the Five Dynasties, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards. After the Song Dynasty, it was quite common to write couplets on mahogany boards.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that people began to write couplets on red paper instead of red boards during the Spring Festival to pray for peace and good luck in the coming year, and the Spring Festival couplets we see now appeared. Nowadays, during the Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.
There are many kinds of couplets, besides Spring Festival couplets, there are also wedding couplets, birthday couplets, greetings couplets and elegiac couplets, and the colors of couplets are different according to different occasions. For example, at weddings and Spring Festival, people use red to express their joy. When red is not suitable for filial piety, use white instead.
The language of couplets is concise and catchy. This simple and profound folk art bears people's yearning for a better life and is deeply loved by the masses. It not only influenced and enriched China's culture and art, but also spread to Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries with the development of cultural exchanges among countries.
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