A collection of the most interesting couplets in 30 categories

1 Allegorical couplet

It is a couplet with an allegorical meaning.

For example:

Right and wrong, right and wrong, right and wrong, right and wrong;

positive and negative, positive and negative, positive and negative, positive and negative are the same (write (during ten years of turmoil)

2 Vernacular couplets

Use spoken language to express themselves in a friendly and pleasant way.

For example:

Busy for fame, busy for profit, take a break and have a cup of tea;

Work hard, work hard, enjoy the hard work, take a pot Here comes the wine.

3 Combination couplets

Actually, it is to take apart a certain word and then put it back together.

For example:

The words are full of thoughts, homesickness, friends and parents. Qianlong

Thanks to God, to the earth, and to the king. Ji Xiaolan

Here, "Si" and "Xie" are separated and combined again. This kind of couplet is called a combined pair.

Freezing rain sprinkles on the window, two o'clock in the east and three o'clock in the west,

Cut the melon into slices, with eight cuts vertically and seven cuts horizontally. (Su Shi)

4 Homophonic pairs

Use the harmonious pronunciation to create a pun, which creates a lot of fun.

Lotus seeds are bitter in the heart;

Pear seeds are sour in the abdomen.

Jin Sheng sighed to himself before the execution. "Lotus" is a homologue of "pity"; "pear" is a homologue of "li"

5 Inlaid word couplets

It means that the name of the person, place or thing to be expressed is embedded in the couplet.

Relevant inlaid word couplets:

The towers are illuminated, and the layers of holes are bright

The lotus roots are picked out in the lotus pond, and it becomes white every day

6 missing The word pair

uses white space to imply a pun.

For example, a poor scholar celebrates the New Year by posting Spring Festival couplets:

Two, three, four, five; six, seven, eight, nine. Horizontal batch: north and south.

That is: the first line (missing one) is homophonic to (lack of clothes), and the second line (less ten) is homophonic to (lack of food), which means that one's life is difficult. Hengpi: North and South means that you have nothing.

Appreciation of similar interesting couplets:

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven (forgot eight)

Filial piety, younger brother, loyalty, trust , propriety, righteousness, honesty (shameless)

7 Split word couplets

It is a unique form of couplets. Splitting characters, also known as character analysis and separation, is to separate the various parts of Chinese character shapes into other characters (or shapes), and give each character (or shape) a new meaning. Split word couplets and combined couplets are just the opposite. Split word couplets are to split a certain word, while combined couplets are to split a certain word and then combine it.

Tasting spring tea, three sips of white water;

Two mountain men in Zhuxian Temple.

8 Phonological couplets

In one sentence, the ends of each clause rhyme

Luoyang Bridge, buckwheat on the bridge, the wind blows and the bridge does not move

Parrot Island, the boat under the state, the water makes the boat flow and the island does not flow

Baiyun Peak, the maple on the peak, the wind blows the maple and the peak does not move

Qingsi Road, the road Bian Heron, Lu Da Heron flew away without flying

9 Contradictory couplets

It is to use antonyms to write couplets that seem to be contradictory but are not contradictory in fact.

The eldest lady washes black and white vegetables

The tall and short man eats hot jelly

10 Couplets with the same rhyme

Use one word's multiple parts of speech or homophones The word comes out of the couplet.

For example: "Dui Lei" contains a couplet that goes: The horse is loose in the cage, and the loose horse runs away; the chicken cover is broken, and the chicken fly after the cover is broken. There are many ways to use this couplet. Horse cage and horse cage, horse cage and horse cage, chicken cover and chicken cover, chicken cover and chicken cover are loops within the sentence. The cage is loose, the cage is loose, the cover is broken, the cover is broken is the most true. Both "cage" and "cage" are a noun and a verb, and they are also used as part of speech.

Appreciation of couplets with the same rhyme:

Li hits the carp, the carp sinks to the bottom, Li sinks and the carp floats

The wind blows the bees, the bees swoop to the ground, the wind blows the bees and they fly (Li Xuezheng )

Painting with Lotus and Monk Painting (Tang Bohu)

Shu Lin Han Shu Hanlin Shu (Li Tiaoyuan)

11 Qiao Yilian

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The mother holds the son in the bamboo basket with bamboo shoots (Xiong Tingbi)

The moon shines on the screen window, everyone is bright and bright

The plum blossoms are falling in the snow Ridge, fragrant mountains and white lotus everywhere

12 Overlapping couplets

Use the overlapping of words to write couplets.

The clear spring at the feet of the Buddha, two jade belts fluttering down

The source of living water, a string of pearls popping out - Qishan Qianfo Mountain Baotu Spring

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Mountains, mountains and rivers are bright and beautiful everywhere

Sunny or rainy, I am always curious - a couplet of a pavilion in Zhongshan Park, West Lake

Green and red are everywhere. Yan Yan

The ups and downs come and go every year - West Lake Flower Temple Couplet

The sea water rises and falls

The floating clouds grow long Long long long long long fade

13 couplets with different meanings

A couplet will have different interpretations depending on the position of the sentence break

Isn’t it unlucky to have spring tomorrow (tomorrow It’s spring, so bad luck)

If you are unlucky all year round, you will rarely have any extra wealth (If you are unlucky all year round, you will rarely have any extra wealth) - Zhu Zhishan

Can I live here forever? (This place is safe, can I live forever.) < /p>

He is a good person, not sad! (He is a good person, not sad.)

Cheap, not cheap, cheap (Cheap, not cheap, cheap)

Affordable Affordable and affordable (affordable, affordable, affordable) horizontal batch: cheap and good-quality

14 ruthless pair

Only pay attention to the relative words of the upper and lower couplets, as for the content, each is different, never Correlation makes people have strange and unpredictable fun, and endless aftertaste.

The bright moon is a plate of ears,

The red star is Erguotou.

15 Inverted couplets

That is, the first couplet is read straight and the second couplet is read backwards to ensure complete semantics. The upper couplet can be read backwards into a second couplet, or both the upper and lower couplets can be read backwards at the same time to form a new couplet, with smooth text and complete meaning, or "reverse couplet".

The guest comes to live in nature,

He is actually a guest from the sky (Ji Xiaolan)

The fog locks the top of the mountain, the mountain locks the fog

The sky is connected with water and the tail water is connected with the sky

Lou Wanghai Haiwanglou

Shui Lian Tian Tian Lian Shui

16 Absolute Couplets

There are generally two so-called "absolutes" in the couplets. Heavy meaning: 1. Refers to the skill and wording of the couplets reaching an unprecedented or even unparalleled level, which is breathtaking. 2. Sentences that have not been answered for a long time because of their cleverness, novelty, and difficulty in couplets are often called absolute or katana.

Yansuo Pond Willow

Pao Zhen Haicheng Tower

Sprinkle cold water, a little water, two drops of water, three drops of water

Lilac Flowers , Hundred-character header, Thousand-character header, Ten thousand-character header

17 Modified couplet

That is, adapting the original couplet is still a good couplet, but the meaning has changed.

For example: Su Shi was a man of profound knowledge, but he was also proud and arrogant. He once wrote a couplet saying:

He knows all the characters in the world and has read all the books in the world.

The pride was clearly visible, and he was reprimanded by his mother. After many things happened, he changed the couplet and said:

I am determined to read all the words in the world, and I am determined to read all the books in the world.

18 Chang Jue

The number of couplets is large, the structure is complex, but the contrast is neat. For example: There is a couplet on the upper floor of the Grand View Garden in Kunming, which is known as "the longest couplet in ancient and modern times", with a total of 180 words. The full text is as follows:

Five hundred miles away from Dianchi Lake, you can see it. The shore is draped with lapels, and the joy is vast and boundless. Look: the divine horse is flying in the east; the spiritual instrument is flying in the west; it is winding in the north; it is flying in the south. A master of arts and crafts, why not choose to win and ascend. Taking advantage of Xieyu Luozhou, combing the wind and mist on the temples. More frequently, the sky and reeds are dotted with green feathers and red clouds. Don't let it down: fragrant rice is surrounded by thousands of hectares of clear sand; hibiscus in nine summers; willows in three springs.

Thousands of years of past events are brought to mind. Drinking wine, sighing where the hero is. Think about it: the Han Dynasty practiced building boats; the Tang Dynasty marked iron pillars; the Song Dynasty wielded jade axes; the Yuan Dynasty crossed leather bags. Great achievements, great efforts, and great efforts to move mountains. The bead curtains and painted buildings are not as large as the evening rain and morning clouds. Then the ruins of the stele were broken, and they were all illuminated by the mist. I only win: a few pestles and sparse bells; half a river of fishing fire; two rows of autumn geese; and a pillow of clear frost.

19 Dang-sentence pairs

A type of antithesis. Some words in a sentence form a duality, which is called Dang-sentence pair.

The devastation in the world, the sage in poetry

The suffering of the people, the waves in the writing - Guo Moruo's Ode to Du Fu

The wine is sprinkled in the flower, on the needle grinding stone

Leaning on the sword and hanging on the sky, hanging the bow and hibiscus

20 Couplets with the same character and different sounds

Using the characteristics of one Chinese character with multiple sounds to form a special couplet with the same character and different sounds. It can be called a homonym with different pronunciation.

Tune the piano, tune the piano, tune the tune, tune the tune, tune the tune to tune the wonderful things

Plant flowers, plant good things, and make all kinds of fragrance

First couplet: pronunciation of one, three, and eight characters (bar) , adjusted (tune), the rest of the pronunciation (off), tone (tune).

Second line: The characters 1, 3 and 8 are pronounced without the pronunciation of "planted" (kind), and the rest are pronounced with the pronunciation of "variety" (kind).

Chao Chao Chao Chao Chao Xi

Long long long long long fade

Fuzhou Luoxing Tower

Pronunciation of the first couplet: Chao Chao tide, Chao Chao tide.

The pronunciation of the second line: long rise, long rise and long decline.

行行行行行行

Long long long long long long

The pronunciation of the first couplet: Hang Hang Hang Hang Hang Hang.

The pronunciation of the second line: long rise, long rise, long rise.

21 Homophone Double Association

Homophony Double Association uses the homophony and synonymous relationship between language and characters to make one sentence involve two things or two contents, expressing the author in a pun. the meaning to be expressed.

The breeze all over the ground cannot tolerate me

When will the bright moon shine on people again

The first couplet: "Qing" implies the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Second line: "Mingyue" commemorates the Ming Dynasty.

The spider under the eaves is full of silk.

The earthworm in front of the courtyard is full of mud.

The first couplet: "Silk" is a joke of "private".

Second line: "Ni" is a homologue of "suspicious", pronounced in dialect.

22 No Couplet

As the name suggests, no one can guess the couplet of the second line.

In the Bell and Drum Tower, the bells are ringing all night long

All Jinshi in this world are short-sighted

A good woman is born in Youyou, and she asks who is worthy of her at the door

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23 Palindromic reverse couplet

The upper couplet in the couplet can be read backwards into the lower couplet, or the upper and lower couplets can be read backwards at the same time into a new couplet, and the sentences are smooth and the meaning is complete, or It is called "reverse couplet".

People have passed through the Great Buddha Temple

The Buddha in the temple has surpassed others

The king of doctors, Ruo Li

Li Ruo, the king of doctors

Guest Shangtianju

Unexpectedly, Tianshanggu

24 Numerical Couplets

Numerical couplets are clever pairs of numbers in the art of ancient Chinese couplets, although there are only a few numbers. , but it can be infinitely varied, giving people great interest.

Appreciation of interesting combinations of the same kind:

The water-cooled Jinhanhuo Temple is under construction

What is the military officer of the Southern and Northern Diao tune?

Join the "Five Elements" .

The second couplet is about "five parties".

Thousands of tiles and bricks took a hundred days to build the Cross Temple

One boat, two oars and three people crossed the Sitong Bridge

The sixty-year-old reopened plus thirty-seven years

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There is more Spring and Autumn in the ancient Xi Shuangqing

One palm holds the sky and five fingers are three long and two short

The six points are inserted into the ground on the seventh floor and in all directions

One point and two points of ice-cold wine Three points

Hundreds of lilac flowers

25 Homophone couplets of different words

Use a word or several glyphs with different meanings but the same pronunciation The characters are arranged in a couplet respectively. This is the "different characters with the same pronunciation" couplet.

No mountain is as good as Wushan

How can water be as clear as a river

First couplet: "Wu" and "Wu" have the same pronunciation.

Second line: "He" and "河" have the same pronunciation.

Chickens steal rice and boys beat them with tubes

Shu Mouse cools Liang Keke

First couplet: "Chicken" has the same pronunciation, "Stealing Rice" has the same pronunciation, "Tong Tuo" has the same pronunciation as "Chicken" ” homophonic.

The first couplet: "Shu Shu" has the same pronunciation, "Liang Liang" has the same pronunciation, and "Keke" has the same pronunciation.

26 Thimble Couplet

The last word of the previous clause of the couplet is used as the first word of the next clause, so that the two adjacent clauses are connected end to end. , also known as "Lianzhu Pair" and "Lianjin Pair".

Smile when you open your mouth, smile in the past and laugh at everything in the present

How can a big belly tolerate the heaven and earth and oneself?

Golden threads and Liujin beside the Jinshui River Willow threads pass through the mouth of the goldfish

A jade head is placed outside the jade railing on a jade hairpin flower

Thousands of miles are filled with mountains and rivers Chongqing Mansion

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27 Hidden word couplet

In the couplet, certain words are intentionally omitted to express a certain meaning implicitly and skillfully. The other is similar to a riddle. The couplet is a riddle, and the hidden word is hidden. The word is the answer to the riddle. This kind of couplet is called "hidden word couplet".

Hidden word couplets, also known as missing couplets and hidden word couplets, mean that some words that need to be highlighted are deliberately omitted in the couplets, and the implicit meaning and subtext are conveyed implicitly and skillfully. The hidden word couplets are hidden but not exposed, and the winding paths lead to secluded places with meaningful meanings. There are many masterpieces with ingenious conception, strange techniques and vivid language. Reading them is amazing and has endless aftertaste.

It is said that Lu Mengzheng, the famous Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, came from a poor family when he was young. One New Year's Eve, seeing that his family was destitute, he wrote this couplet and posted it on both sides of the door:

Two three four five; six Seven or eighty-nine.

Horizontal batch: north and south.

The upper and lower lines are intentionally missing "one" and "ten", and the horizontal line is intentionally missing "things", which means "lack of food, clothing, and nothing". This couplet has a clever idea and expresses the author's poverty and sorrow in a subtle and humorous way.

Someone ridiculed a quack doctor named "Jisheng":

It may not turn out to be a disaster; he has never come back from the dead.

This couplet hides the words "lucky" and "sheng" in the idioms "turning evil into good luck" and "bringing the dead back to life" respectively, and also hides the name of the quack doctor "jisheng", satirizing the quack doctor's unlucky treatment. No "生"

28 Duplicate word couplets

In the couplets, one or several same words appear one after another, which is a "duplicate word" couplet. Or several words appear multiple times according to a certain pattern, which is called a "complex word couplet".

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The ring road with overlapping hills and winding roads

Green, green and red are everywhere

Flowers and grasses come and go every year

< p> 29 Couplets of split characters and combined characters

Couplets can be split and combined characters, splitting a word into several characters, or combining several characters into one character to form a literal couplet. Of course, some also contain elements of analytical words and contain some subtle ideological content.

Looking at the wood in the door at leisure

The field in the heart of thinking

The first couplet: the word "Xian".

The second line: the word "thinking".

Sands appear when there is little water

They are made of earth embankments

Silkworms are insects in the world

Hungs are birds by the river

Three stones of Lei Bridge are broken

The way out is separated by two mountains

The word "Lei" is removed from the upper couplet.

The word "out" is removed from the lower couplet.

Freezing rain sprinkles people at two points to the east and three points to the west

Cut and divide the passengers with seven knives horizontally and eight knives vertically

Remove the words "frozen" and "sprinkle" in the upper couplet .

The first couplet separates the words "cut" and "fen".

30 Coupling with the same radicals

Coupling with the same radicals means that the same radicals are practiced. After careful planning, the couplets composed of Chinese characters with the same radicals and radicals are called "radical-radical couplets".

For example: In the first year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty, Prime Minister Ye Xianggao passed by Fuzhou and stayed at the home of Weng Zhengchun, the number one scholar in Xinke. Weng impromptuly said:

He spoils Su Han's family and is poor. lonely.

Ye Xianggao was surprised when he saw that the couplet was full of the characters Bao Hijab. Then he said calmly:

The guest official lives in the palace, and the wealthy family is tolerant.

A more exciting pairing is:

Yi Yin, Ruan Yuan.

Yi Yin in the first couplet was a famous politician in the Shang Dynasty, and Ruan Yuan in the second couplet was a famous scholar and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. They are both names, and they are exactly the radicals, so the contrast is neat.

There was also a picture of the same pair at this year’s Spring Festival Gala.

Qingshan's upper line: water flows from rivers, lakes and seas;

Gansu's second line: gold, silver, copper, iron, chromium, nickel, lead and zinc.

Appreciation of interesting couplets of the same kind:

Sighing and wailing with sobs in the throat

Teardrops flowing down the Xiangjiang River into the sea

Pampering the poor window of Su Han’s family Loneliness

The guest house lives in the palace, the official is rich and tolerant

Drives the coquettish horse on horseback

Plants sandalwood and cinnamon trees

Lotus stem, lotus root and lotus moss

Hibiscus and peony pistil are fragrant