This is the most classic couplet.
The upper part of the word' ink' is the word' black'; The upper part of the word "spring" is the word "white". Each one belongs to a color and has opposite meanings.
The lower half of the two characters are' earth' and' water', which belong to one of the five elements.
There is another way to align this couplet:
Moby Cypress
Compared with "black" and "white", "earth" and "wood" are five elements, and ink comes from cypress, which can be described as Bai Mo.
Two-character couplets
Spring flowers (right) autumn moon
Han Fu (Dui) Chu Ci
Shushan in Xue Hai
Hong Yu (right) Yao Dan
Three-character couplets
Flowers (mirrors) in the underwater moon
Sun Xingzhe (right) Zu Chongzhi
Huaguoshan water curtain cave (right)
Birds try to hide their bows.
Four-character couplets
Green mountains are not old (right) and green waters often flow.
Beautiful scenery (right) outstanding people.
Southeast, northwest (right), spring, summer, autumn and winter
Let a hundred flowers blossom (a hundred schools of thought contend)
Five-character couplets
Love you, hope to learn from Qin (right), worry about the country and the people, and wish you a rich life.
Soaring for a Millennium in Wan Li.
Semi-submersible China shore (right) bypasses foreign ships.
The bud becomes an island (right), causing clear ripples along the turbidity.
Six-character couplets
Clouds don't know, birds fly out of the hole tired.
Can you do what you want (right) but ask for a clear conscience?
Bamboo rain pine organ rhyme (right) the sound of tea, cigarettes and books on the moon.
There is no doubt that heaven and earth (right) have their own spring and autumn.
Seven-character couplets
As we all know, there is no false color (right) in rocks, and vegetation has real fragrance.
Lin Bu is happy to be near the cool house (right) and participate in text meditation with the guests.
Wan Li autumn wind blows brocade water (right) Jiuzhong spring scenery drunk Xiantao.
His pen and ink are earth-shattering (right) for ten thousand paintings.
Pine leaves, bamboo leaves, green leaves (right), autumn sounds, geese sounds and cold sounds.
Eight-character couplets
The spirit of mountains and rivers is also pleasantly surprised by the harvest of bosom friend (right) temperament.
There is a Gu Song court at the door, but there is no rock (right).
Jin Xi Yu Hui County Zaolingyan (right) Lin Zongji traveled in Li Yong.
On the same day in the Qing Dynasty, silk and bamboo sang mountains and rivers together, reflecting daily life.
Multi-character couplets
An extremely clever man feels the pulse of an extremely clever man (playing the powerful minister for nothing)
Yang, a favorite of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, was jealous of Li Bai's talent and was very dissatisfied with him. He has been trying to mock him. One day, Yang came up with an idea to let Li Bai correct these three-step sentences. As soon as Li Bai entered the door, Yang looked at Li Bai and quipped:
Two apes were chopping wood on the mountain and asked the monkeys how to saw each other.
"See" homophonic "sentence" and "monkey" allude to Li Bai. Hearing this, Li Bai smiled and said, "Please start. If you can't get it right in three steps, I will lose. " Yang Ben wanted to finish these three steps quickly, but as soon as he took one step, Li Bai pointed to Yang's foot and shouted:
A horse hides in the mud and watches how the wild animals hoof!
"hoof" and "title" are harmonious, and the title is well aligned with the upper part. Yang tried to take advantage, but he was humiliated by Li Bai. As soon as he lifted his foot, he was ridiculed as a "beast that ran out of his hoof", which made him stick to it. Very embarrassing.
If Lv Mengzheng is unfair, it will make a noise.
Lv Mengzheng, Prime Minister of Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Luoyang, Henan. It is said that he was down and out when he was young, and he was very dissatisfied with the social phenomenon of inequality between the rich and the poor. The Spring Festival is coming, and there is nothing at home. In a rage, he wrote a strange couplet.
The first part is: 2345;
The bottom line is: six seven eight nine.
Horizontal recognition is: North and South.
After the strange couplets were posted, all the poor friends came to see them. They were confused at first, but when they realized this, they couldn't help clapping their hands and cheering. It turns out that the moral of this couplet is: lack of clothes and eat less (1) and eat less (10), and there is no "thing".
Huajiachuan team
1924, I was in Jiazi, once in 60 years, which is very rare. A Naxi scholar in Lijiang, Yunnan, made a couplet in Chinese and posted it on a street corner. He said, "Whoever can make a couplet will give a small gift.". This couplet is a string of "flowers" pairs:
Lantern hangs apricot flowers, peach blossoms are red, plum blossoms are white, flowers are worn, peanuts, flowers are added, and flowers are fragrant.
The scholar found it difficult to be right, and it took ten and a half months for someone to be right. As everyone knows, someone came to see you the next day. It turned out that Juren Wang Shuhe made a bottom line with a string of "A" overnight:
Looking through the Preface to Jia Ling, we can see that it is auspicious to be in the armor, auspicious to be in the turtle, and the dragon is now armor, and the turtle is now armor, armor and armor, and the armor is shining.
And Wang refused to accept it, which became a much-told story for a while.
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Ancient couplets
Part I: Good reading is not good reading.
Bottom line: A good book is not a good book.
This couplet was written by Xu Wei in Ming Dynasty. The first couplet refers to reading when you are young, but you don't like reading, and reading is not good when you are old.
The first part: Idle people are not allowed to become sages.
Yuan Right: Thieves don't come, Taoist priests come.
Xinlian: Fishing people don't come to work.
This couplet was written by a monk in Mingdan Mountain.
Part I: Ideal is not enjoyment.
Bottom line: The future is full of money.
Part I: This piece of wood comes from Chaishan.
Bottom line: Because of the fire, there is a lot of smoke at night.
This couplet shows the quiet rural life, and at the same time, it deduces the profoundness of Chinese character art to the extreme, which is wonderful.
Part I: The temple is small, and there are no monks sweeping the floor.
The second part: the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the Buddha's light is bright.
This couplet is a temple couplet, which is a masterpiece through the ages.
The first part: watching plum blossoms sweep wax snow alone;
Bottom line: the mountains are dancing and flowing.
The beauty of this couplet lies in its urgent reading, such as the scale:' Dolemi fasolasi'. The next couplet reads the numbers in dialect: "1234567".
The first part: the summer mouse cools the beam, and the cat strokes scare the summer mouse.
Yuan Right: Hungry chickens steal rice, tell children to pick up stones and beat hungry chickens.
Guyou: thirsty cranes make slaves shoot thirsty cranes.
This couplet is also called' Summer Rat Measuring Beam'.
The first part: the summer mouse cools the beam and the pen wall depicts the cat. Summer rat jumped along the eaves and crashed into a pile and died. Old cats eat corpses.
Yuan Right: The hungry chicken stole rice. The hungry chicken fled with the same child. When it touched the shed, it died and the arrow fell.
Part one: Chickens are eager to eat beans.
Bottom line: beams are cool in summer.
Part I: xixi Xixi Xixi Xi.
Bottom line: You can swim in the right skunk.
Part 1: Let's spend the summer together tonight.
Part II: Enjoy the flowers tomorrow.
The first part: a scholar, a farmer and a worker (palace).
Bottom line: cold and hot, warm and cool (good), respect and frugality.
This couplet is also an odd couplet. The first part is divided into two parts: scholars, agriculture, industry and commerce; Gong Shang jiao Yu The former is a four-industry, while the latter is a five-tone, homophonic word repetition. The primitive five virtues of cold and hot are four senses, and gentleness, courtesy and frugality are gentlemen.
Part I: Tour the West Lake, carrying an iron can, which falls to the West Lake, but it is precious to the iron can.
Bottom line: make a deposit, catch bats, bat a deposit, and belittle bats. The existing connection between God and man: Listening to physics is like being in fog, watching physics is like being in fog, and ignoring physics. )
Original pair: ancient pair: every Jia Zi, Jia Zi, Jia Zi meets Jia Zi, Jia Zi Jia Zi.
The first part: Wangjianglou, Wangjiangxi and Wangjiangxi on Wangjianglou. The river tower is eternal, and the river flows through the ages.
Bottom line: print the moon, print the moon shadow, print the moon shadow. The moon is bright for ten thousand years, and the moon shadow for ten thousand years [2].
Today's alliance: buy blue bottles after Nanping. If you get a blue bottle, you will get Nanping, but it is rare for you to get a blue bottle.
Part I: Mud, fertilizer and grain are still thin.
Bottom line: short nights are long.
This couplet is homophonic' Ni Fei monk is thin'; Ghost short hag long'.
Part one: It's illegal to cut hair again.
Bottom line: becoming a monk with a flail.
This couplet is used to satirize a monk for breaking the law.
Part I: How beautiful are flowers like lotus flowers?
Bottom line: Berries are more sour than plums.
Part I: Draw a temple, a temple, a wonderful temple.
Bottom line: The famous garden is Yuanmingyuan.
Part I: Agate is not a horse brain.
Bottom line: Ji Lang is not a wolf liver.
This couplet is Wang Hong's right in Ming Dynasty, and it is a beautiful sentence.
Part I: When it rains heavily, I'm afraid of mud. Egg tofu is left to the son-in-law, and Mo Yan returns.
According to legend, when it rained in the Qing Dynasty, his father-in-law Zhong took in his son-in-law. It seems ordinary, but in fact it is well-intentioned and wonderful. Because of its clever use of homophonic puns, all couplets are ancient names. For: Xia Dayu: Xia; Ni: Confucius; Ji Dan: the younger brother of Zhou Wuwang, the fourth son of Xibo Hou Jichang, also known as Duke Zhou; Du Fu and Liu Yuxi: poets in the Tang Dynasty; Mozi and Yan Hui: Disciples of Confucius. Because it is too difficult, it is said that no one can answer correctly so far.
Part I: Wheat seeds are irrigated in heavy rain.
Bottom line: Tian He in the dry highlands must do it.
This couplet is homophonic Xia Dayu; Mozi philosopher in the Spring and Autumn Period (Mai and Homophony); Guan Zhong: a figure in the Spring and Autumn Period; Gaudi: Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang; Tian He, Master of Yi Studies in the Early Han Dynasty, Bigan, Minister of Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
The first part: Sinan women go to Tongren.
Bottom line: the chef will come.
This couplet was written by Wu Jinsan in Qing Dynasty. When friends go out here, it means that Sinan women go to Tongren, which is homophonic: thinking about men and women walking with people; Jin San pointed to the chef who served the food. It turned out that this chef was originally from Shangcai and later lived in Huili. He often goes back and forth between these two places. Homonym: the chef who serves stewed carp.
The first part: Modern scholars are short-sighted, and the imperial capital forbids trying Jinshi, but they wet their necks and wipe them with towels.
Part II: It is an epic poem that began in the street. It is like a stone lion, vowing to erode.
Part 1: Dogs are gnawing at bones by the river.
The second part: Shui Piao's Dongpo poems.
This couplet is a day when Dongpo and Fo Yin were on a boat trip. They saw a dog gnawing a bone on the riverbank. Dongpo made this couplet, which is homophonic: dogs gnaw at monks' bones. Fo Yin immediately threw the poem written by Dongpo into the water. The homonym of this poem is: Shui Piao Dongpo's body.
Part I: Looking for edible mussels by the water in Fo Yin.
Bottom line: Take it home from Dongpo River.
This couplet is a day when Dongpo takes his family out to play. He wrote this couplet when he met Fo Yin digging clams by the river. Homophonic: Fo Yin is looking for "delicious" food by the water. When Fo Yin heard this, Dongpo took his family with him. Homonym: Dongpo River brought' cangue'.
Part I: The Yangtze River crosses the Yangtze River.
Bottom line: Jiao Shan lives in Jiao Shan Cave.
This couplet was written by Yang Jisheng (Jiao Shan) in Ming Dynasty and Jiao Shan in Zhenjiang.
Part One: A Bai Lianhua in the sky, holding Buddha in the wind.
Bottom line: There are several chestnut trees in the gorge, and the moon is far from the ape.
The first part: Yulantang, Yulan Mao Lei is at the bar, trying to stop the rest.
Bottom line: the banquet is clear, the lotus fragrance attracts the light swallow, and the mood is clear.
Reading this couplet quickly and repeatedly becomes a mouthful. Yulantang: On the lakeside of Kunming in the Summer Palace, it is the bedroom of Emperor Guangxu. Qing Banquet Boat: Zhou Shi, located at the west foot of Wanshou Mountain in the Summer Palace, is a famous water building in the garden.
Landscape couplets:
Advance and retreat in one, close to the country, heroic spirit, eternal towns, lakes and mountains.
Shang Hu Associations of Monks and Philosophers in Kaihua Temple in Fuzhou West Lake.
Furong Shili Water Town Fuzhou Wushan Pipa Pavilion
One shot draws water, one shot hits the moon, half shoots into the river and half shoots into the clouds.
Part I: The cave is still the same as before.
Bottom line: Spring Festival is outside the window.
Horizontal criticism: something for nothing.
Interesting couplets
Humor association has a wide range of uses. It is either praise or derogatory; Or sarcasm, or praise; Or encourage, or encourage yourself ... Now take one or two:
1. Political corruption in the late Qing Dynasty, selling officials and titles is not uncommon. A Chinese medicine dealer in a city spent a lot of money to buy a four-product official. He wore a blue sky jacket and was still contemptuous at that time. He sarcastically said, "Four blue sky jackets and six rehmannia pills."
2. In the late Qing Dynasty, his close friend was appointed as the political envoy in Gansu. After returning from studying abroad, an academician from surnamed tang mistakenly wrote "Qiu Yi" as "Qiubei" and "Investigation" as "Winning". Then he mocked him with a couplet: "My husband is dreaming. Investigating its differentiation, nine Jiu Nan must be divided into eight or eight. "
3. Black and white are inseparable, teach me how to know the north and the south; Green and yellow don't answer, I want to borrow something from you.
Here is a story. A rich scholar and a poor scholar are friends. One day, the rich scholar took a walk in the yard at night. It's dark outside and he can't see his fingers. So I sang the first part casually, and I couldn't think of the second part. Then the poor scholar knocked at the door and said, "I don't want to answer it." I want to borrow something from you. " Hearing this, Fu Xiucai quickly said, "That's easier said than done. You should check my first couplet. " Then the poor scholar said, "Didn't the younger brother come out when he entered the door?" The rich scholar thought that it turned out to be like this, so he smiled happily!
4. Cleavage couplets: idle (idle) gatekeepers in the middle of the month, thinking about farming and going to the fields.
5. Cleavage couplets: the ancient wood is dead, and this wood becomes firewood; Women are good, and girls are especially wonderful.
6. Moonlight screens are well known.
The wind sends fragrance, but the flowers worry Mei Lanfang.
7. Two boats go hand in hand, rowing faster (Lu Su) than sailing faster (Fan Kuai).
Eight tones in one, Di Qing (Di Qing) is harder than Xiaohe.
8. Nantong House, North Tongzhou, and North and South Tongzhou connect North and South;
East pawnbroker, west pawnbroker and east pawnbroker are things.
This couplet is a famous orientation couplet. The first part was written by Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, and the second part was improvised by Ji Xiaolan.
9. Sit south and eat watermelon and throw the skin east;
Read from top to bottom, turn left and turn right.
10. Big Dipper, water reaches 14;
The lonely geese in the south building fly with shadows in the middle of the month.
According to legend, Lin Zexu went to his uncle's house when he was young, which coincided with the couplets of several poets and Uncle Xu. A poet wanted to test Lin Zexu's knowledge, so he made the first couplet, and the clever Lin Zexu immediately made the second couplet. The first couplet means that the Big Dipper in the sky is seven stars, and when reflected on the calm lake, it becomes fourteen o'clock. The second couplet is that although there are lonely geese in the south building, under the bright moon, "shadow" becomes "a pair of flies" This couplet reflects the intelligence, wit and erudition of young Lin Zexu.
Couplet stories about a poor family and borrowing money from relatives and friends were rejected. After the middle school entrance examination, relatives and friends came to curry favor and flocked to it. The scholar was filled with emotion and posted a couplet at the door: I remember the past year, the famine in May, June and July, the rice was burned to death, and I was poor and iron-free, so I couldn't get credit and owed money. Although there are distant relatives, who is willing to send charcoal in the snow; Fortunately, the articles in the first, second and third sessions of the Imperial Examination this year are all appropriate. After getting the Five Classics, the names and surnames are also fragrant, which is the icing on the cake.
According to legend, No Love was written by Zhang Zhidong in Qing Dynasty. In this form of couplets, sentences and antitheses form their own chapters, and only through other explanations can they echo each other. One day, Zhang Zhidong wanted to have a drink in Taoranting, and took a poem of that time, "Looking for an axe from a tree", as the first sentence, Zhang said, "It's really irrelevant." In the upper and lower links, "tree", "fruit" and "dawn" are all vegetation; "Already", "Ran" and "He" are all function words; "Half", "one" and all numbers; Both "seek" and "point" are escaped as verbs; "Hugh" and "no" are function words; "Vertical" and "phase" are function words; "Axe" and "dry" are ancient weapons. Zhang Zhidong's antithesis is eclectic in dialect. Don't (right) add coal and explode your eyebrows.