Spring Festival couplets, also known as“Spring paste”、“Doorset”, "Couplet"Pair, "door sticker", "door couplet".
It is one of the festive elements posted during the Spring Festival.It is depicted in neat, concise and exquisite wordsBeautiful imageAnd express their good wishes.
Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family should choose beautiful couplets to stick on their doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and increase the festive atmosphere.[9]
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Spring Festival couplets
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Spring Festival couplets
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Spring paste、Doorset、Antithetical couplet、Couplets
Spring Festival couplets are one of the festive elements posted during the Spring Festival. They are described in neat, concise and exquisite wordsBeautiful imageExpressing good wishes is a unique literary form in China and an important Chinese New Year custom.When people paste New Year's Red (Spring Festival coupletsLucky Character、Paper-cuts for Window DecorationThe Spring Festival is officially kicked off.[7]
First, the Spring Festival couplets are fromTaofu。According to《Later Han Dynasty·According to Etiquette Records, the Taofu is six inches long and three inches wide, and it is written on a peach board“Divine tea”、“Yu Lei”Two gods."On the first day of the first month, we created a Taofu household named Xianmu,Ghosts"During the Five Dynasties, in the court of Xishu, someone wrote on the peach symbolConjunctions。According to the Records of the Age in Yanjing in the Qing Dynasty, "Spring couplets are peach charms."
Another source of Spring Festival couplets isSpring pasteThe ancients often pasted the word "Yichun" on the first day of spring, which gradually developed into spring couplets, expressing Chinaworking peopleIt is a good wish to ward off evil spirits and disasters, welcome good fortune and accept good fortune.[2-3]
After the Eastern Han Dynasty, a cultural ritual was formed to match the door gods, and the door gods were strengthened to exorcise evil spirits and ghosts,WeijiazhaiIt can guarantee safety, help utility and reduce auspiciousness.In ancient times, there was a special term for pasting New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets called "seal"Hanging peach charmsPaste New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets.The "seal" refers to the closed and clean internal field, so that the evil atmosphere can no longer enter the home."Sealing" is the meaning of closing and blocking;"Seal" is marked in both the visible and the hidden, and I have sealed it.[1]
It is said that this custom started in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming DynastyIdeologicalAnd artistry have been greatly improved.
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World Records AssociationThe earliest Spring Festival couplet in the world is: "Three suns begin to appear, four preface begins to appear." This couplet is recorded inMogao Grottoes Sutra CaveUnearthedDunhuang Relics(Volume NoFor Stein 0610), the posthumous note records the Spring Festival couplets written by twelve pairs on the first day of the year.This couplet is the first one in the order. It was written by Liu Qiuzi in the Tang Dynasty in the 11th year of Kaiyuan (723)HoushumainMeng ChangIts title couplet dates back 240 years."Three suns start to spread; four orders start to open" broke the "New Year's celebration, Jiajie Changchun"world record。The custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty.According to historical records,Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming DynastyHe is fond of couplets, not only writing by himself, but also often encouraging officials to write.Zhu YuanzhangVigorously advocatePaste couplets。
Spring Festival couplets had become a form of literature and art at that time.There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door center, frame pair, horizontal scroll, spring stick, and doujin according to the place where they are used.The "door center" is pasted on the center of the upper end of the door panel;"Frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames;“Horizontal batch”Stick on the lintel crossbar;"Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents;“Dufang”It is also called "door leaf", which is square rhombic and is usually pasted on furnitureScreen wallin[8]。 At the same time, every family should paste the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel.Sticking the word "Fu" on the Spring Festival is a long-standing custom among Han people.According to《Dream Liang Record》Note:“SuidanIn the near, Xipu Department Store, draw door god Taofu, greeting card...... ";"Scholars and commoners, no matter how big or small, always sweep the gate to remove dust and filth and clean the court,Change the door god, hanging Zhong Kui, nailing peach charms, pasting spring cards, offering sacrifices to ancestors ".
After the Tang DynastyShenta, YuleiBesides the second general, people alsoQin ShubaoandYuchi GongTwo military generals of the Tang Dynastydoor-god。It is said that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was ill and could not rest all night when he heard the call of ghosts outside the door.So he asked the two generals to stand guard by the door with weapons in hand, and there was no ghost harassment the next night.later,Tang TaizongThe two generals were painted and pasted on the door. This custom began to spread widely among Chinese people.
By the Song Dynasty, it was quite common to write couplets on mahogany boards.Wang AnshiOf《first day of first lunar month》In the poem, "The firecracker was dismissed at the age of one year,Spring breeze warms Tusu。Thousands of families always replace the old peach with the new one. "This reflects that every family on New Year's EveHanging peach charmsThe grand occasion of this Spring Festival couplet.At the same time, with the appearance of the door god and the use of red paper to write the peach charms, the mission of expelling evil spirits and avoiding disasters undertaken by the previous peach charms has gradually shifted to the door god, and the content of the peach charms has evolved into the expression of people's good wishes to pray for good luck in the coming year and bumper crops.
The History of the Song Dynasty · Shu Aristocratic Family says: the post Shu masterMeng ChangBachelor of ArtsXin YinxunIt was inscribed with peach wood board, "because it was not a work, I made a self appointed pen with the following words: 'The New Year will be celebrated, and the Jiajie will be celebrated in Changchun'. However, different historical materials in the Song Dynasty have different opinions about this, and some people also said thatMeng ChangWritten by Meng Zhe, son of.Until the Song Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets were still called "Taofu".Wang AnshiIn his poem, there is a saying that "thousands of people will have a bright day and always replace the old charm with the new one".In the Song Dynasty, Taofu was changed from peach wood to paper, called "spring stickers" and "spring couplets".
The term "Spring Festival couplets" appeared in the early Ming Dynasty.Emperor Taizu of the Ming DynastyZhu YuanzhangAfter becoming the emperor, he likes to make a scene, and also likes the peach charms pasted by large families every New Year's Eve. He wants to promote them.Before the New Year's Eve of one year, he issued the imperial decree, requestingJinlingEvery household should stick the spring couplets written in paper on the door frames to welcome the new year.On the morning of New Year's Day, Zhu Yuanzhang made an inspection tour in tiny clothes and went door to door to check the Spring Festival couplets.Whenever he sees a well written Spring Festival couplet, he is very happy and full of praise.Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry when he saw that one family did not post Spring Festival couplets during his inspection. He asked why, and the attendant replied, "This family is engaged in pig killing andcastrate a pigMy master, I'm very busy during the Spring Festival. I haven't had time to ask someone to write. "Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to bring itBrush, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote a Spring Festival couplet for the book: "Cut the road of life and death with both hands, cut the root of right and wrong with one knife." After finishing, he continued to patrol.After a period of time, when Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the palace after his inspection, he passed by again and saw that the butcher's house had not yet pasted his Spring Festival couplets, so he asked what was the matter.The owner replied respectfully, "This Spring Festival couplet was written by the emperor himself. We hang in the nave and burn incense every day." Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy and ordered his attendants to give the family thirty taels of silver.It can be seen that the name and promotion of "Spring Festival Couplet" was adopted by Zhu Yuanzhangadministrative decreeOnly when the imperial decree was issued could the method of.
legend
Legend has it that《shanhaiching》There is a world of ghosts. There is a mountain in the middle. There is a big tree covering three thousand miles on the mountainpeachThere is a golden pheasant on the top of the tree.Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghosts wandering out at night will return to the ghost land.The gate of the ghost land is located in the northeast of the peach tree. There are two gods standing beside the gate, namedDivine tea、Yu Lei。If the ghost does something harmful at night, Shenta and Yulei will immediately find it and catch it, bind it with a rope made of mang reed, and send it to feed the tiger.So the worldGhostFear of divine tea and gloomy base.So people use itMahoganyCarve them and put them at their own door to avoid evil and harm.Later, people simply carved the names of Shencha and Yulei on the mahogany board, believing that this can also suppress evil and eliminate evil.This peach board was later called "Tao Fu".In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one of which was not to lose the significance of suppressing evil, the other was to express their good wishes, and the third was to decorate the door for beauty.Also, couplets were written on red paper, which symbolized happiness and auspiciousness, and pasted on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.
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Spring Festival, yesChinese nation"The first of a hundred festivals".stayChinese historyIn civilization, there are many customs to celebrate the Spring Festival. The most widely preserved customs among the people, especially in the countryside, are to paste Spring Festival couplets and stickersdoor-god。
Pasting Spring Festival couplets is the first thing for Chinese people to celebrate the Spring Festival.Every time the Spring Festival is approaching, every family sticks new couplets on both sides of the gate, with black characters on red background, steady and bright.To express the good wishes of every family for the New Year, such as "six animals prosper and grain harvest";Or it is related to the culture of the Chinese nation's trunk and branch chronology. The Spring Festival couplets are embedded with the names of the zodiac animals such as "mouse", "cow", "tiger", "rabbit", "dragon", "snake", "horse", and "sheep", such as "koi fly to pay for the distant aspirations; auspicious sheep kneel and feel the affinity";Some Spring Festival couplets also pay attention to reflecting the different“Happiness view”。Therefore, a careful study of the Spring Festival couplets posted by people during the Spring Festival is undoubtedly a meaningful way to observe folk customs.
When did the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets begin? There is no accurate material to verify.However, it may have begun in the period of post Shu more than 1000 years ago, which can be confirmed in historical records.In addition, according to the "Wang Zhu Baodian"《Yanjing Chronicle》According to other works, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call“Taofu”。
There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door center, frame pair, horizontal poncho, spring stripe, square fight, etc.The "door center" is pasted on the center of the upper end of the door panel;"Frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames;The "horizontal drape" is pasted on the beautiful crossbar;"Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents;"Doujin" is also called "gate leaf", which is square diamond[4]。
The Spring Festival is celebrated all over the world, so in addition to the Spring Festival couplets,Pigsty, chicken and duck houses and other places should also be pasted with couplets, which symbolize the prosperity of six animals. The format is generally full of chickens and ducks, flocks of cattle and sheep, and the prosperity of six animals.There are also couplets of immortals:“Kitchen God”The Spring Festival couplet is: Heaven promises good things, and the lower world brings good luck.Meanskitchen godWhen you report to the Jade Emperor after heaven, you should speak good words, and when you come back, you should be lucky, commonly known assee off the kitchen god。“local god of the land”The Spring Festival couplet ofWhite jade, undergroundLong gold。It means that as long as you work hard, you can get a harvest in the land.The Spring Festival couplet of "God of Heaven and Earth" is: The sky is high, covering all things, and the earth is thick, carrying all people.In just 10 words, everything in the world is included.The big trees in the yard need to be pasted with "big roots", the walls in the yard need to be pasted with "bright spring", the walls near the kang at home need to be pasted with "happiness and health", and the kitchen needs to be pasted with "diligence and thrift".
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The color of couplets is related to local folk customs.It is generally seen in red, which represents welcome.There are also white, yellow, purple, green and blue in some places.For example, in Hubei, yellow represents missing new loved ones, purple and blue represent the second year of offering sacrifices to old people, and green represents the third year of offering sacrifices to old people.In some places, white represents missing new relatives.General use of templeYellow paperThe old man in the family died, and the younger generation's family generally did not paste red spring couplets for three years from that year on. The white, green, and yellow couplets were used for the first year, the green paper for the second year, and the yellow paper for the third year. The red paper was not used until the end of the fourth year's mourning period, so the white, green, and yellow couplets are commonly known as“Filial piety couplet”"Filial Piety Spring Festival Couplet" or "Ding You Couplet".In some places, the first yearPastel yellowThe couplets are blue in the next year and green in the third year.There are also some places that simply do not paste couplets for three years to express their grief, so it is necessary to paste couplets during the Spring Festival.
moral
As early as the Warring States Period more than 2000 years ago,central plainsDuring the Spring Festival, people hang "peach stalks", also known as "peach charms".According to the Yanjing Chronicles of the Year Spring Couplet written by Fucha Dunchong in the Qing Dynasty, "Spring couplets are also peach charms. Since entering the wax dynasty, there have been scholars and writers writing Spring couplets under the eaves of the city to polish the calligraphy with pictures. After sacrificing to the kitchen, they gradually stick on them, making thousands of households look newWang AnshiIn the poem "Thousands of families have a bright future, and always replace the old peach with the new one", we can also see that the Spring Festival couplets andTaofuRelationship.
What is the Tao Fu?According to《Writings of Prince Huainan》Said that this "Tao Fu" is made of peach wood which is one inch wide and seven or eight inches long.On the mahogany board, write the divine teaYu LeiThe names of the two gods are hung on both sides of the door.Or they also painted the two gods - the left divine tea and the right Yulei.The ancients used calligraphy and painting on Taofu to suppress evil spirits.This is also commonly known as“door-god”。In the five dynasties of more than 700 AD, the Empress of ShuMeng ChangThe first Spring Festival couplet in China, "Celebrate the New Year and celebrate the Jiajie Festival in Changchun.".
However, in the Song Dynasty, "Spring Festival couplets" were still called "Taofu".However, couplets are not only inscribed on peach symbols, but also used on couplets. Later generations called couplets.After the Song Dynasty, Yichun posts often used couplets, and wrote pink notes.Some peopleThe Book of SongsSome of them are poems of Tang and Song Dynasties.According to legend, there areWang YiThe Spring Festival couplet was set up in the public emperor's pavilion: "The north land condenses all the yin, and thousands of doors are fresh." This is the spring couplet hanging people's teeth.
“Taofu”It was really called "Spring Festival couplet" in the Ming Dynasty.According to Chen Yunzhan, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, "The Spring Festival couplets were established since the Emperor Taizu of the Ming DynastyJinling(Today's Nanjing), don't pass an edict before New Year's Eve. A spring couplet must be added at the door of the public officials' and scholars' homes, and the emperor will go out of sight. "Emperor Taizu of the Ming DynastyZhu YuanzhangNot only did he go out in disguise to watch the laughter, but he also wrote for the bachelor himselfTao AnThe Spring Festival couplets were inscribed by others.The emperor's advocacy made the Spring Festival couplets become more and more popular, and finally formed an enduring fashion.Couplets are called "couplets", commonly known asPair。It is a unique artistic form of the Chinese language, with simple words and profound meanings, neat antithesis and harmonious tone.It can be said that the art of antithetical couplets belongs to the Chinese nationCultural treasure。The types of couplets are roughly divided into spring coupletsXilian、longevity couplets、Elegiac couplet、Filial piety couplet、Decorative couplet、Industry Federation、communicationCombined and hybrid (includingFun Union)Etc.
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According to different customs, the time of pasting Spring Festival couplets varies slightly.As the saying goes:“28、 Decal”There is also a saying in some local ballads that "29, the Spring Festival couplets are posted on December 28 and 29, but most of them are posted according to their personal schedule."The earth increases its wealth, and the whole family is blessed with good fortune." According to the Putonghua couplets, the second tone is usedthe rising toneAt the end, according to the rhyme of level water, you can also distinguish between level and oblique tones.Only when there is no horizontal scroll and the upper couplet is weaker than the lower coupletLower flat。
Which side of the couplet?
To seeHorizontal batchIf the horizontal scroll is written from right to left, the upper couplet should be posted on the right, and vice versa.In addition, in addition to the requirements of antithesis, the couplet should generally be in the upper tone and lower tone, that is, the tone of the ending words of the upper couplet should be in the upper tone and the tone of the ending words of the lower couplet should be in the flat tone.(the high and level tone, Yangping)
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Different from the time of pasting Spring Festival couplets, the time of picking Spring Festival couplets varies greatly from place to place.According to the different folk customs in different places, there are three main types: year-round, holiday and natural abscission.
The whole year.The Spring Festival couplets are meant to be festive and auspicious, so the "old" Spring Festival couplets need to wait until the Spring Festival couplets are pasted in the next year before removing and pasting the new ones, which means saying goodbye to the old and ushering in the new, and blessing the year.During the whole year, if the couplets are damaged, they need to be repaired in time.
The festival said.Spring Festival couplets as a driving force“Nian beast”One of the magic weapons of Spring Festival couplets can be picked after the "New Year" is over.According to the different folk customs in different places, there are the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is regarded as the end of the New Year, and the second day of the second month of the lunar calendarDragon Head Raising DayWhen the New Year is over, etc.
There is a mythical legend among Chinese people that the Spring Festival couplets are immortals in the sky. When the Spring Festival couplets are burned, they will go up to the heaven and report to the Jade EmperorDeityIt can bring good luck to folk families and other beautiful legends.
As Spring Festival couplets belong to auspicious objects in folk customs, wanton destruction (burning, tearing, painting, etc.) of Spring Festival couplets is a kind of behaviorUnethical behavior。
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At the same time,Hang Zhong Kui, nailing peach charms, pasting spring cards, offering sacrifices to ancestors ".The "Sticking Spring Card" in the text is the word "Fu" written on the red paper. If you stick the word "Fu" upside down, passers-by will read "Fu fell", which is also "Fu arrived".
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The word "happiness" is interpreted as "happiness", while in the past it meant "happiness" and "luck".The Chinese character "Fu" posted on the Spring Festival expresses people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future.In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, Chinese people simply pasted the word "Fu" upside down to indicate that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived".
legend
There is another legend in Chinese folk that the word "Fu" is pasted upside down.Emperor Taizu of the Ming DynastyZhu YuanzhangIn those days, the word "Fu" was used as a secret mark to prepare to kill people.In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind-hearted queen made all families in the city have to put a "blessing" on their doors before dawn.
queenOf course, no one dares to disobey the will of "Fu", so the word "Fu" is pasted on the door of every family.Some of them could not read, so they stuck the word "Fu" upside down.The next day, the emperor sent people to the street to check, and found that every family had posted the word "Fu", and another had posted the word "Fu" upside down.The emperor was furious at the report and immediately orderedRoyal Forest ArmyKill the whole family.Seeing that things were not going well, the empress said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "The family knew that you were going to visit and deliberately pasted the word" Fu "upside down. Isn't that what" Fu Dao "means?" As soon as the emperor heard that it was reasonable, he ordered to release people, and a disaster was finally eliminated.Since then, people have pasted the word "Fu" upside down, seeking luck and commemorating the Queen.
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The Han people also draw the word "Fu" carefully into various patterns, includingPeach-Shaped MantouCarps jump over the dragon gate, grain harvest, dragon and phoenix are auspicious, etc.In the past, there were“the 24th of the twelfth lunar monthAccording to the saying that every family writes big characters, the word "Fu" used to be written by hand.
Usually there are two pairs of couplets and one piece of coupletsTransverse linkageThe last word of each piece in the direct link includes flat, up, down, in, etcsound(nearNational accentFour tone method, but there are differences).
The red spring festival couplets express their hope for the new year and set off a strong festival atmosphereFolk artFormal expressiontraditional cultureIs an important carrier of.There are a lot of attentions on pasting Spring Festival couplets. If they are not properly pasted, they will be laughed at.
The traditional way of pasting Spring Festival couplets is to put the upper couplet on the right and the lower couplet on the left when facing the gate,BannerThe text order is from right to left.The other is the commonly used pasting method.Since the horizontal writing format was changed from left to right after liberation, the Spring Festival couplets can also have the upper couplet on the left and the lower couplet on the right. The order of banners is also from left to right, which is suitable for peopleReading habits。It is not good to "mix" the two Spring Festival couplets.
If fromQin and Han DynastiesAt the beginning of calculation, the history of pasting Spring Festival couplets in China has been two thousand years,Chinese peopleThe reason why people always like to paste Spring Festival couplets is because of the traditional thinking concept of Chinese people.As the saying goes, "Spring is the key to a year." The Chinese people have always had an optimistic idea, that is, to place hope on the future and hope that the future will bring them good luck.No matter what happy, happy or unhappy things happened in the past year, I always hope that the next year will be better. So when the Spring Festival is coming, pasting Spring Festival couplets is the best choice to achieve this goal.They use the Spring Festival couplets to express their joy and happiness for the coming year, or express their expectations and high hopes for the new year.In theirtraditional ideasIt is the most pleasant and auspicious thing to have a good beginning in a year. Therefore, every Spring Festival, you can express your good feelings and hopes for the future by pasting Spring Festival couplets.At the same time, the Chinese people are very particular about festivity, auspiciousness and liveliness during the Spring Festival. Eating good food, drinking good food, setting off firecrackers, visiting relatives and friends and so on are all reflections of the festive psychology, and pasting Spring Festival couplets is just an external means to strengthen people's festive psychology and exaggerate the atmosphere.
Spring Festival couplets are based onParallel proseA derivativeNew styleIt also refers to the traditional literary form of Chinese poetry.It is different from the ancient parallel prose and poetry, and it is a unique form of independent style.Although antithetical sentences in regular poetry or parallel prose are often excellent couplets, they can only be called antithetical couplets when they exist independently from regular poetry or parallel prose.Its most prominent feature is that it is in pairs in form, the two couplets are "opposite" to each other, and the content is mutually supportive and closely linked.The upper and lower couplets of a couplet must be complete and unified in structure and clear and concise in language.
Number of words
The number of upper and lower hyphens should be equal.For example, "In the Spring Festival, wealth is good, and happiness is good." Each couplet is seven characters, and the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets is equal, which is the most basic requirement of the couplets.But there are also other phenomena.In 1916, the thiefhigh Qing officialAfter the death cry, the people all over the country went to tell each other, cheered and danced.There was a scholar in Sichuan who said that he would go to Beijing to see Yuan Shikai offElegiac couplet。After hearing this, the villager was stunned. He opened the couplet he had written and read it: "Long live Yuan Shikai and the Chinese people".People could not help laughing when they saw it.The literati deliberately asked, "What are you laughing at?" A straightforward young man said, "How can the three words' Yuan Shikai 'in the first couplet match the four words' Chinese people' in the second couplet?" The literati laughed at the "Chi" sound and said, "Yes, Yuan Shikai can't help the Chinese people!" The story is about "elegiac couplets", "elegiac couplets"It also belongs to a kind of couplet, which means that the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets must be equal. If they are not equal, they can only be very different.
Phrase part of speech
The conjunctions and parts of speech should be the same.That is to say, each phrase of the upper couplet is a few words, and the corresponding phrase of the lower couplet must also be a few words.The part of speech of the couplet isexcuseThe category properties of, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc., should be arranged in an equal way, both the same and relative.As just listed, "It's a good time to be rich and prosperous in the Spring Festival, and you will be safe and prosperous every year".Each couplet is composed of three phrases, that is, Spring Festival - wealth - good years, good years - peace - step by step.The upper and lower couplets are the same."Xin" and "Jia" in this couplet are adjectives."Spring", "Sui", "Richness" and "Peace" are all nouns."Nian Nian" and "Bu Bu" are adverbs, and "Hao" and "Gao" are adjectives.This requirement is mainly to use symmetricalartistic languageTo better express the ideological content.
structure
The syntax structure of the corresponding sentence of the concatenation should be the same as far as possible.
Up and down linklevel and oblique tonesIt should be coordinated.Pay attention to the expression of coupletsrules governing the rhythm of wordsRelativity, that is, tonality.This is mainly for the sake of sound harmony and ups and downs,charm sb's ears, sonorous and powerful.Legend has it thatJi XiaolanWhen he came to Hangzhou on a southbound trip, a friend gave him a banquet to wash the dust.During the dinner, the guests and hosts answered each other in sentences.JiXiao LanHe is quick witted and has been linked with others. His friends are convinced and praise himNorthern KingdomLonely talent.Xiaolan said disapprovingly, "Northern talents are all around the Great Wall, manWordsWhere to start? "The friend said, "I went to the north a few years ago and brought a couplet with me, but no one could match it." Xiaolan was half convinced and asked, "What sentence did you make, brother? The other party couldn't answer it?" His friend read the couplet: "Two towers are hidden, seven floors, four sides and eight directions.".Ji Xiaolan laughed and said, "It's because they don't care to answer such a simple sentence that they won't be right!" The friend asked, "Then, how should the second couplet be right?" Ji Xiaolan blurted out: shaking his hands and fingersThree long and two short。After listening to this, the friend not only found the second couplet, but also admired Ji Xiaolan's superior intelligence.The couplet "Two towers are hidden, seven floors are in all directions; the single palm is shaking, and the five fingers are three long and two short" has achieved the tone of tone and tone, achieving the harmony of phonology, uneven ups and downs, beautiful, sonorous and powerfulartistic effect。
Disadvantages and taboos
The so-called "palm folding" means semantic repetition and waste of pen and ink.For example, there is a Spring Festival couplet commonly used by merchants in the old days“The business is prosperous, and the financial resources reach three rivers”。This couplet is in harmony with the sound of "congratulations and fortune" in firecrackers. It is very popular in the business world.However, a further study will find that "connecting the four seas" and "reaching the three rivers" are the same meaning, meaning repetition, and the term of couplets is called "palming".Seven character couplets have only 14 characters in total, six of which express the content of three characters, which leads to semantic repetition.The couplet is the most concise style in the article, and it is not allowed to waste ink.In order to provide more information in fewer words, it is necessary to avoid saying the same meaning in the upper and lower couplets.For example, inNew Spring Festival coupletsThe Chinese version of "shaking heaven and earth" to "shocking the world" and "origination light" to "teng rui qi" also belong to the problem of "semantic repetition".
Horizontal drape
Horizontal drape, also calledHorizontal batch, banner, horizontal link, banner.Put aside the elegiac coupletslongevity coupletsIn addition, most of them need to be used.The horizontal drapery is closely related to the content of couplets.A good horizontal poncho can play a role of icing on the cake.In other words, a horizontal drape is the sublimation of the content of a couplet, the theme of the couplet, and even the finishing touch.Draped acrossWriting techniqueOn the one hand, the common ones can be divided into three forms:
First, the couplets are freehand written, and the couplets are inscribed horizontally, such as "celebrate the Spring Festival", "good luck in the Spring Festival", and so on. The purpose of directly naming and pasting the couplets is:;
The second is the freehand brushwork of the couplets, and the banners touch the eyes. For example, the horizontal scroll of "good fortune in the new year, good luck in the new year" is "good luck", which reveals that the key to realizing the content of the couplets is "good luck", which is the finishing touch;
Third, the couplets complement each other and complement each other. For example, the horizontal scroll of "Alleviating the burden of the people, always sending warmth from the vast east; helping the poor, always sending warmth from the gentle spring rain" is "promising", and the horizontal scroll and the couplets complement each other. It not only reveals the people's great gratitude to the CPC Central Committee for "always sending warmth" and "always sending warmth from the general customs", but also praises the broad and brilliant future of the Party.
The horizontal wrap is mostly four characters. In the past, the horizontal wrap was written horizontally from right to left. Nowadays, it is written horizontally from left to right. Writing from right to left is an official way.The horizontal drape should be pasted onlintelIn the middle, the font style should be consistent with the upper and lower couplets, so as to better reflect the unity of our culture.
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Spring Festival couplets have a wide range of characteristics. In addition to the Spring Festival couplets posted by every household, restaurants, hair salons, hotelsgrocery storeSome businesses and enterprises also paste Spring Festival couplets.This involves how to choose Spring Festival couplets.
First of all, Spring Festival couplets should highlight healthyAesthetic conceptionAnd aesthetic pursuit.
Fuzhou Nanhou Street Handwritten Spring Festival Couplet Old Shop
Whether residents or units paste Spring Festival couplets, it should reflect a healthyaesthetic taste And pursuit.Some of these aesthetic pursuits focus on the prosperity of the motherland.For example, "Spring returns to the earth, flowers bloom, and everything in China glows with the warmth of the day", "Good times, good scenery, good people and good deeds are everywhere, and the new society and new atmosphere compose new songs and songs every day", etc.This kind of Spring Festival couplet summarizes the prosperity of the motherland, and eulogizesNew eraOfNew look, revealing that the creators of the Spring Festival couplets praise the beautiful life of the motherland with each passing day.Some Spring Festival couplets express their own pursuit and longing for the future, such as, "One night, two years of success, five minutes, two years of satisfaction".“Days add years and people add lifeSpring is full of blessings.This family Spring Festival couplet is an expression of blessings and wishes for the coming year, hoping that everything will be successful and auspicious in the new year.
Secondly, pasting Spring Festival couplets best reflects personality.
Since the purpose of pasting Spring Festival couplets is to place some kind of hope and blessing, different families, different industries, and different identities will have different hopes and blessings from others, so pasting Spring Festival couplets should conform to their own characteristics and careers.For example, "Spring is a good time for young crops to grow strong, and new people to produce abundant rice." This is a spring couplet that reflects farmers' hopes and blessings for the new year."There are a variety of department stores and countersspring, summer, autumn and winterCargo;The building is prosperous and full of passengers. "This is a Spring Festival couplet to promote business prosperity."With a piece of chalk, the continuous rain will nourish the peaches and plums; with a three foot platform, the spring breeze will caress the pillars." This is the Spring Festival couplet posted by the teacher's family.This Spring Festival couplet, which reflects their own characteristics, highlights the incomparable love and loyalty to their work.Of course, those Spring Festival couplets that praise the prosperity of the country, express love for the motherland and socialism, and enthusiastically eulogize the future of the country and society from the macro perspective of the country can be posted by both families and units, which is no doubt.The embodiment of individuality mainly emphasizes that the Spring Festival couplets should not be pasted serially.That is to say, as a working family, if you paste a Spring Festival couplet that reads, "If you work hard to raise pigs, three people will live a sweet life; if you work hard in the fields, you will sweat, and the fruits will come in the peak years of autumn", it will make people laugh.
The upper and lower couplets both end with a tone. The lower couplets are stronger than the upper couplets. According to the rules, the upper and lower couplets can be distinguished.
The posting of Spring Festival couplets should conform to the traditional rules, and the Spring Festival couplets should be posted vertically.The upper couplet should be pasted on the right side (the left side of the door), the lower couplet should be pasted on the left side (the right side of the door), and the horizontal scroll should also be read from right to left.The upper and lower couplets cannot be pasted reversely.For example, "Spring returns to the earth, flowers bloom, and everything in the sun warms China" can not be pasted as "The sun warms China, and everything in the sun warms China blooms, and flowers bloom in the spring". From the content, the first and second couplets havecausal relationshipBecause "Spring returns to the earth and flowers are blooming", it makes "the sun is warm and everything in China is shining". If it is reversed, it reverses the causality and makes people feel awkward.From the perspective of tone, we can judge the upper and lower couplets from the tone of the previous sentence and the next sentence of the Spring Festival couplet.The last word of the couplet "Yan" is four tones, that is, oblique tone.The last word of the lower couplet "Hui" is a tone, that is, a flat tone.Generally speaking, if the suffix is three tone and four tone (oblique tone), it is the upper couplet; if the suffix is one tone and two tone (flat tone), it is the lower couplet.However, some couplets have flat tone at the end of the upper couplet and oblique tone at the end of the lower couplet. Do not think that all couplets with oblique tone are upper couplets.In this case, we should judge the upper and lower couplets from the content of the Spring Festival couplets.This requires that you read the couplets carefully when posting, and really understand the content of the couplets.
If necessaryBannerTo judge the upper and lower links.Because there are two kinds of antithesis: work pair and lenient pair.In the Instance sectionmake a concrete analysis。
In addition, the size of the Spring Festival couplets should be consistent with their own portals.It is best to paste 15 to 20 cm wide spring couplets on the door of residents' houses, while it is best to paste 20 to 30 cm wide spring couplets on the shop floor of merchants according to the width of the door, so that it can be harmonious and generous.As for the gate of some tall buildings, if the couplets are pasted, the width of the couplets should not exceed 40 cm.
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1. Koi fly to reward Yuanzhi;Xiangyang kneels and suckles, feeling kind-hearted.
2. The pear flower yard has a dissolute moon, and the catkin pond has a faint wind.
32. The old year is old and the new year brings new knowledge.
33. Snow caresses people and makes them drunk,red plumSpring is dotted with branches.
34. The spring breeze and the spring rain are smooth and the country is peaceful and the people are safe.
35. Every year is the same as every year, and every year is the same as every year.
36. The country is prosperous, the country is prosperous, and the old and the young are safe.
37. Spring is full of the beauty of the motherland's mountains and rivers for thousands of years, and the vast land of China is new for thousands of years.
38. The sound of firecrackers is old, and the peach symbolGenerationsto update.
39. The magpies climb the branches and enjoy the doors, and the spring flowers are blooming.
40. Every year is a happy Spring Day.
41. Guoqiang Family Fortune Life Insurance Co., Ltd. has enjoyed a good time.
42. In the flourishing age, thousands of families are happy, and in the new year, hundreds of families are thriving.
43. The wind shakes the bamboo shadow, the sound painting, and the rain beats the plum blossomWordless poem。
44. Every year, every year.
2007 Spring Festival Gala
1. Harmony
First couplet: The 24 hour solar term, the heaven and earth show
The second part: 56 wonderful flowers, harmony and spring
Horizontal scroll: Harmony between man and nature
2. USUNHOME
First part: Tianhe, Dihe, Renhe, Herong Huaxia
The second part: Song, dance, flower, beauty tonight
Horizontal scroll: Good luck in the Spring Festival
3. Harmony
First couplet: Hehe Shunshun Qianjiale
The second part: People's happiness every month and every year
Horizontal scroll: Guotai and Min'an
4. Harmony
The first couplet: the spirit of the party, the people, and the unity of all, and the spring breeze of scientific development
The second page: national, family and grand plans, social harmony rising
Golden Bull Gives Blessings and Green Willow Welcomes Springgrand viewWhen the world is shocked
Drum music and roaring dragon and lion dance together
2011 CCTV Year of the RabbitSpring Festival GalaFive pairs of couplets were released, half of which were missing, and the upper or lower couplets were collected from the audience.
The second couplet: Qianqiuming, bow down and listen more.
Fifth Mate;The first couplet: It's not too late for the Spring Festival Gala.
The second line: Keep cold all the year round.
2012 Spring Festival Gala
The first couplet: Spring tide in the East China Sea, singing and dancing.The second page: Zhongtian Huiliri,a scene of bustling activity。
First page:Western RegionsThe picture of rising dragon presents auspiciousness and auspicious gifts.Second line: ZhongyuanWen Quexi, pray for blessings and New Year greetings.
The first couplet: firecrackers are fired in the south,Welcome the New YearSay goodbye to the past.The second couplet: Congratulations on getting rich at midnight.
The first couplet: The northern kingdom is blessed with dragon light, human harmony and good governance.The second line: China is in its heyday, rich in resources and safe for the people.
2015 Spring Festival Gala
First couplet: 24 word maximEpigraph pedestalRight.The second link: thousands of families' well-being is at the heart
First couplet: Shoot the fly and beat the tigerhunt down foxesPeople praise it.The second part: Horse goes to sheep, swallow dances, spring begins in China
The first couplet: riding a horse to return home, the spring tide is rolling all the way.Bottom line:Furnace enclosureToast, Kyushu is beaming
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The motherland, mountains and rivers, good people, new years
East wind blowswillow greenSpring Rain Runs Flower Red
One Heart Prospering Great Cause and Jointly Revitalizing China
Spring returns to the earth, flowers are blooming, and everything in China is shining
Thundering Dragon Starts Insect, Mud Warms Swallow with Spring
Following the Rain, Regulating the Wind, Dragons, Meteorology, Jinshan Embroidering Water and Phoenix Articles
The dragon soars over the blue sea, praises the sea, the wide bird dances, the blue sky leads the sky high
You don't need a whip to shake your ears;What's the use of Niuqin as a pawn
Renshun Family and Fuxing Accomplish Their DesireGreat fortunedoor
Family prospers, people prosper, business prospers, wealth prospers, fortune prospers
Welcome Prosperity and Prosperity at Home
All is well every year
Prosperity and prosperity bring happiness to the whole family
Family and people follow your heart, rich and noble, peaceful and auspicious
All the best for peace, all the best for good
Spring to Qianshan Mountain Green Festival to Wanjiajiahong
The word "Heshun has a hundred blessings and peace" is worth thousands of dollars and everything is renewed
All the year round, spring is always in full bloom to welcome the new spring
Spring is full of flowers blooming in the world. Happy Spring Festival in Chang'an all the year round
Centennial years, good modern history, new and new landscape
Happy to live in the treasure land for thousands of years, happy to welcome the new year
Dajiao Queen Ma Middle SchoolLiu BowenA pair of spring couplets mentioned:
The first couplet: The river goes eastward, and the heroes of all ages ask who is better than me outside the castle peak and the white clouds outside the mountainEmperor Hongwu
The second part: The returning warbler in the west of the small garden wakes up a court of fragrant grass to see the green trees beside the pool and the red rain here
DanfengCheng Xianglong Presents Lucky Hearts to Celebrate the Spring Festival with Apricots:Bless the world
Hanma Juechen An Wai Zhenzhong Biao New Chapter of the Qing Dynasty Political Exhibition: Spring is full of people
One door of Heshun has a hundred blessings, and the word "peace" is worth a thousand gold
Yellow Orioles Sing Green Willows, Purple Swallows Cut Spring Breeze Horizontal scroll: Orioles Sing and Swallows Dance
Huitong Neighborhood welcomes spring, summer, autumn and winter, treats Shixian sincerely, and accepts the financial banner of southeast, northwest and northwest: good luck
Green bamboos are different. Red plum trees are reporting to thousands of families for spring
Prosperity every year, wide financial resourcesSafe all the year roundFu Shou Duo horizontal scroll: good luck
At 5:00, every year, every year, every night, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every night, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every night, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year
All over the world, spring is beautiful, all rivers and mountains are shining
Happy to live in the treasure land, a thousand years of prosperity, taking photos of the family, everything goes well
(absolute: gather horses to feed sheepSheep are beautifulBoiled sheep tastes delicious.)
2019 Spring Festival couplet:
The first couplet: Pig is the god of wealth, reaching thousands of households
The second couplet: Yan Weichun makes thousands of dancers
Horizontal scroll: Jiuzhou Tongqing
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Su Xiaomei Is Angry, Difficult Monk[6]
Wash the monk by the clear water pool and soak in the wavesgourd;The beauty sits in the green gauze tent, and the peony is smoked.
One day, Su Xiaomei was ill, and his brotherSu DongpoI'm cooking medicine for her,Buddhist Seal MonkIt happened to visit Su Dongpo.As soon as Dongpo saw his old friend's visit, he was very happy, so he talked with Foyin over tea. He forgot to deliver medicine to his sick sister on time. Su Xiaomei saw that her brother had not delivered medicine yet, so she read a couplet aloud on the bed: wash the monk by the clear water pool, soak the gourd in the waves;
It is really disrespectful to use the "gourd" as a metaphor for the monk's "bald head".Su Dongpo knew her temper and that she was angry again, so he hurried to deliver medicine for her.Buddhist sealIt was hard. I was scolded and had to deal with the second couplet. But after thinking about it, it was hard to find a good one.Suddenly, he looked up and saw Su Dongpo carrying a medicine bowl, lifting up the green gauze tent, and was about to give Su Xiaomei medicine. Suddenly, he touched the inspiration, and immediately said to her, "Beauty sits in the green gauze tent, smoking a basket of peony." Su Xiaomei smiled and drank all the medicine.
Eastern Jin DynastyOne year, calligrapher Wang Xizhi moved to Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province from his hometown in Shandong Province. It was the end of the year, so Wang Xizhi wrote a Spring Festival couplet for his family to paste on both sides of the gate.The couplet is: spring breeze, spring rain, spring scenery, new year and new year.
Unexpectedly, becauseWang Xizhi's CalligraphyThis couplet was unveiled at night as soon as it was posted.After his family told Wang Xizhi, Wang Xizhi was not angry, so he wrote another copy and asked his family to post it again.This picture is about the singing of birds in the north, the singing of stars and the singing of swallows in the south
Who would have thought that they were uncovered again when they saw the dawn.But this day is New Year's Eve, and the next day isfirst day of the lunar yearEvery family in the neighborhood has hung Spring Festival coupletsEmpty fallMrs. Wang was so worried that she urged her husband to think of a way.
Wang Xizhi thought for a moment, smiled slightly, and wrote another one. After he finished, he asked his family to cut off a part of the couplet first, and put the top half on the door first: "Every blessing brings two evils."
Someone came to uncover it at night.But when I saw it in the moonlight, I could see that the couplet was unlucky.Although Wang Xizhi is a famous calligrapher, he cannot take away the couplet full of dangerous predictions.The person who came to steal the whistle had to sigh and slipped away again in the darkness.
On the morning of the first day of the New Year, Wang Xizhi went out to paste the lower half of the cut pieces in person. At this time, many people were watching. When everyone saw the couplet, it turned into: "There is no such thing as a pair of blessings coming today, and misfortune never comes alone last night.".
When they saw it, they applauded and applauded.
White forehead
White headed Spring Festival CoupletIt is a kind of spring couplet with local characteristics, also known as "white forehead spring couplet"."Thousands of families have a bright day, and always replace the old charm with the new one".It is a traditional Chinese custom to paste Spring Festival couplets on the front of people's homes in the New YearBig red paperIt is written in thick black ink, symbolizing good luck in the coming year.But the big red paper used by people in Puxian area to paste Spring Festival couplets is covered with white paper about 10 cm longforeheadThe masses are called Liantou, which originated in the early Qing Dynasty.
The Spring Festival, in the eyes of the Chinese people, is the first and most important lunar yeartraditional festival。When the Spring Festival comes, thousands of familiesWrite Spring Festival coupletsThe Spring Festival couplets, which have been handed down for thousands of years, symbolize auspiciousness and express people's yearning for a beautiful lifeNational customs。This is unique in the world.According to contemporary art mastersZhou RuchangMr. Liu said, "The Spring Festival couplet is the greatest and most wonderful literary and artistic activity unparalleled in the world."
Taofu
“Taofu"Everything is Renewed" and the Song DynastyWang AnshiThe relationship between Spring Festival couplets and Taofu can also be seen in the poem "thousands of families have a bright future and always replace the old ones with the new ones".Empress of ShuMeng ChangThe first Spring Festival couplet in China was written by myself, "Celebrate the New Year and celebrate the Jiajie Festival in Changchun".Since Meng Chang wrote Taofu, scholars have followed suit and regarded the Spring Festival couplets as an elegant thing, so the style of writing Spring Festival couplets has gradually spread.
In the Ming Dynasty, "Taofu" was really called "Spring Festival couplet".According to Chen Yunzhan, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, "The Spring Festival couplets were established since the Emperor Taizu of the Ming DynastyJinlingBefore the New Year's Eve, do not pass an edict. At the door of the public officials' and commoners' homes, a spring couplet must be added. The emperor will go out of sight slightly. "Zhu YuanzhangNot only did he go out in disguise to watch the laughter, but he also wrote for the bachelor himselfTao Anwait forsomeoneEpigraphSpring Festival couplets.The emperor's advocacy made the Spring Festival couplets become more and more popular, and finally formed an enduring fashion.