As the unique essence of China's traditional culture, couplets can't be imitated by western culture. Since ancient times, many literati have written couplets to each other in order to cultivate their temperament, compete for literary talent and fight against intelligence. Tang Bohu, Ji Xiaolan and others pushed the couplet culture to a new height. Now, Yuan Qu of Tang Poetry and Song Poetry has basically faded out of the common people's field of vision and can only be seen in books. However, the grounded culture of couplets is still deeply rooted in the soil of the people and lasts for a long time.

The members of the couplet family are also very large, including funeral couplets, Spring Festival couplets, wedding couplets and so on. Of course, wedding couplets are mostly used in weddings, and can also be used in many occasions, such as the birth of a son, such as his sixtieth birthday, and so on. The couplet "Miss Luf, the lower mouth is bigger than the upper mouth" mentioned in the article is a typical greeting couplet. Not only is it rich in meaning, but it has a long history. Let's enjoy it.

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Since it is used for wedding couplets, it is of course related to marriage. The story has to start from the Kangxi period. In the rich Jiangnan area, there is a family named Lu, which is a big family. Although he looks kind, he has done many harmful things behind his back. It is said that his huge fortune was obtained by improper means. Some people say that he made a fortune by misappropriating the relief funds used by the imperial court to help the victims. It is also said that he acquired a lot of land by bullying the city before owning these properties. We can't find out the details, but it's really cursed. For many years, we have no children but one daughter, so we love this only daughter. My daughter is spoiled and arrogant. In the old society, she bullied others. Now, due to the growth of age, she has no restraint on men and women and has done many immoral things, so no one dares to marry a big family far and near.

In ancient times, chastity was very important for a woman, but Lu's daughter was shameless and had an affair with many men before she got married. Naturally, she was afraid that she would be labeled with a colored hat and laughed at. Lu's father was naturally very anxious about this, so he offered a reward of two thousand pieces of silver for his marriage, hoping that his daughter would be temperate after marriage. How much is a million taels of silver equivalent to now? More than seven million RMB. But for quite a while, no one came to ask for it.

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As the saying goes, "radish and cabbage have their own love." Even such a woman, someone came to propose. This man, surnamed Xu, is also a big family. On weekdays, they often rob women, bully the city, and harm the people. Such people don't care about other people's criticism at all. Besides, Lu's daughter is not ugly and rich. People talk about it one after another: women don't keep women's morality, and men don't know righteousness. These two are really a pair. Nevertheless, due to the power, many people came to bless their wedding. Then someone sent this very famous couplet.

The first part is "Miss, the lower mouth is bigger than the upper mouth", and the second part is "Xu's son, there are more wicked people than righteous people". Obviously, this pair of couplets belongs to the "antithetical couplet".

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On the surface, this couplet is just a couplet with a split character. The surnames of husband and wife should be separated. The first couplet is the word "Lu", and the next couplet is the word "Xu". Both couplets imply irony. In particular, the first part of the book is rich in meaning, implying ridicule and neglect of Lu's extravagance and waste. In the second half of the couplet, the old word Xu is surrounded by two inclined people, which more directly satirizes the evil nature of Xu's son and expresses the people's anger and hatred towards them.

This couplet made others applaud after reading it, and also made the married parties confused and embarrassed.

At the same time, this couplet also reflects that the social heaven was unfair at that time, and the people had nowhere to tell their sufferings, so they could only rely on couplets to express their inner pain uselessly, but evil and injustice were staged every day, which also aggravated the evolution of social contradictions. In the end, the Qing dynasty quickly weakened after the prosperous period of Kanggan, and was knocked on the door by British cannons a hundred years later, and the history of humiliation was unscrupulously staged.

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Therefore, couplets are not only the crystallization of culture, but also the precipitation form of history, which profoundly reflects the social reality at that time. At the end of the article, do you have any other views on this couplet?