With the rise of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, prose couplets were excluded. Prose couplets are generally informal and flat, do not avoid heavy words, do not overemphasize the equivalence of parts of speech, and do not lose the antithesis.
antithetical couplets have a long history, and it is said that they originated from Meng Chang, the ruler of Shu after the Five Dynasties. His inscription "New Year's Eve, Qing Yu, FestivalNo. Changchun" on the peach symbol board at Bedside Gate means that the text "inscribed the peach symbol" (see Shu Lang). This is the earliest couplets in China and the first Spring Festival couplets. (see "practical writing", no 1, 1987, "rambling couplets")
the second part is to confront it with foreign objects, or to agree with it or refute it. The meaning and depth of the antithesis, prose couplets can not be said no.
Features:
First, the number of words should be equal and the sentence breaks should be consistent. In addition to deliberately leaving the position of a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be the same, no more or less.
second, the parts of speech should be relative and in the same position. It is generally called "virtual to virtual, real to real" (the classification of parts of speech in ancient Chinese is different from that in modern Chinese), which is equivalent to noun to noun in modern Chinese.
third, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, quantifier to quantifier, adverb to adverb, and the relative words must be in the same position.
fourth, it is necessary to be flat and even, and the tone is harmonious. According to the rhyme foot, if the upper rhyme foot is puckered, the lower rhyme foot should be flat, which means "puckered up and closed"; otherwise, if the upper rhyme foot is flat, the lower rhyme foot should be puckered up and closed. Both of them are its own requirements.
fifth, the content should be related and connected from top to bottom. The meanings of the upper and lower couplet should be connected with each other and should not be repeated.
6. Everything that becomes an absolute and wonderful pair, such as embedded characters, thimbles, palindromes, split characters, etc., only requires that the last words of the upper and lower couplets be leveled.
Liang Zhangju's Couplet Series, Couplet Continuation and Couplet Three Stories in the Qing Dynasty divided couplets into ten categories, namely, stories, yingzhi, temples, temples, wonders, aphorisms, anecdotes, couplets, set sentences and miscellaneous affixes. The Integration of Couplets published in the Republic of China divides couplets into 2 categories, namely, celebration, mourning, melancholy, school, business, guild hall, temple, temple, theater, first house, garden villa, New Year's Eve, places of interest, gifts, fragrance, set words, set sentences, funny, vernacular and miscellaneous. These two classification methods are divided by practical scope, but the latter is more detailed than the former. If the couplets are classified according to their literal structure, rhetorical skills and logical relations, there are forty or fifty kinds. For example:
1. Dual forms: word pair, matter pair, right pair, opposition, worker pair, wide pair, running pair, palindrome pair, and top pair.
2. Rhetorical devices: metaphor, exaggeration, backchat, pun, rhetorical question and homophonic.
3. Word-using skills: embedding words, hiding words, compound words, overlapping words, radicals, analyzing words, separating words and numbers.
4. Logical structure: juxtaposition, turning, choice, cause and effect.
With the development of society and the further development of culture, there will be more, more complete and perfect couplets.
There are two types of antithesis, one is grammatical antithesis, that is, noun to noun, adjective to adjective, etc.
The other is rhetoric antithesis, which makes different kinds of words antithesis through flexibility and conversion, which is embodied in nouns as adjectives and adjectives as verbs. No matter what kind of confrontation, we must highlight the iconicity of the confrontation. No way, ...Night now yields to a sea of sun won the victory of how ashamed I am to be idler than you statesmen's
thimble couplet
palindrome couplet
numeral couplet
motto and inspirational couplet [1]
anecdote and anecdote couplet
people's association
celebrity association
fun association
humorous association
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