There are two explanations for why "River is opposite Han":
1. River refers to the Yellow River, Han refers to Han River (Han River), and the Yellow River is opposite the Han River.
2. Since river can refer to the Milky Way, Han can also refer to the Milky Way. Qin Guan, a poet from the Song Dynasty, mentioned the Han Dynasty in his poem "Magpie Bridge Immortal·Xianyun Nongqiao": "The fine clouds make tricks, the flying stars convey hatred, and the silver and Han are crossing in darkness." The explanation is "The thin clouds are changing in the sky. The meteors in the sky convey the sadness of lovesickness, and I quietly pass through the vast and distant Milky Way tonight."
This couplet comes from "The Rhymes of Li Weng" by Li Yu, a poet in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties:
p>The river faces Han, green faces red. Yu Bo versus Thunder God. The smoke tower faces the snow cave, and the moon palace faces the heavenly palace.
Li Yu (1611-1680), was first named Xianlu, and later changed his name to Yu, with the courtesy name Ban Fan and Li Weng. The Han people believe in Taoism and are Taoists. Many people are dissatisfied with the decline of Taoism and the rise of Buddhism. A native of Xiali Village, Lanxi County, Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, he was born in Zhigao, South Zhili (now Rugao City, Jiangsu Province). He was a writer, dramatist, drama theorist and esthetician in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
The whole book "Li Weng Duiyun" is divided into Volume One and Volume Two. It is organized according to rhyme, including virtual and real responses to astronomy, geography, flowers and trees, birds and beasts, people, utensils, etc. From single-character pairs to two-character pairs, three-character pairs, five-character pairs, seven-character pairs, to eleven-character pairs, the sounds and rhymes are harmonious and catchy, and you can get training in pronunciation, vocabulary, and rhetoric. From single characters to multi-character pairs. Compared with other three-character and four-character sentences, it has more charm.
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The evolution of the couplets:
1. Dual stage
The time span is Pre-Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, and Jin To the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In ancient Chinese poetry, some relatively neat couplets appeared very early on. Several ancient ballads that have been passed down to this day have seen their origins. Such as "Dig a well to drink, plow the field to eat", "Work at sunrise, rest at sundown" and so on. By the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, couplets were even more common.
The Book of Songs, which was written in the Spring and Autumn Period, has a very rich couplet pattern. Liu Linsheng said in "History of Chinese Parallel Prose": "The methods of making parallels between ancient and modern times are almost all found in the Book of Songs." He gave examples of various types of antithetical sentences such as right-name pairs, similar pairs, continuous pairs, double-tone pairs, overlapping rhyme pairs, and double-rhyme pairs. For example: "Qingqing Zijin, soothing my heart."
2. Parallel couple stage
Parallel style prose originated from the poetry of the Eastern Han Dynasty, flourished in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and flourished in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Parallel prose can be known from its name. It is a literary style that advocates duality and is mostly composed of dual sentences. This kind of couplet is used continuously, also known as parallel couplet or parallel couplet. Liu Xie commented in "Wen Xin Diao Long·Ming Poems" that parallel prose is "a rare example of a hundred characters being picked, and a single sentence being competitively priced." For example, a section of "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" written by Wang Bo of the early Tang Dynasty:
Shi Wei is in September, and the sequence belongs to Sanqiu. When the water is gone, the cold pond is clear, and the smoke condenses and the mountains are purple at dusk. I'm on the road, looking at the scenery in Chong'a. Visit Changzhou, the emperor's son, and find the immortal's old pavilion. The mountains are towering with greenery, and the sky rises above them; the flying pavilions flow with elixirs, and there is no ground below. Heting and Fuzhu are the lingering memories of poor islands; Guidianlan Palace is the shape of hills and mountains.
They are all organized in couplets. Among them, "The falling clouds and solitary swans fly together, the autumn water and the long sky are the same color" is a famous couplet through the ages. This kind of duality is a further development of the duality in ancient poetry and poetry. It has the following three characteristics:
First, duality is no longer purely a rhetorical device, but has become the main metrical requirement of the style. Parallel style writing has three characteristics, namely the four-six sentence pattern, parallel couplets, and allusions. This is one of them.
The second is that there are certain rules for the number of paired words. Mainly the "four-six" sentence pattern and its variations. Mainly include: four-character duality, six-character duality, eight-character duality, cross duality, and twelve-character duality.
Thirdly, the antiphons are quite skillful, but there are many heavy characters (such as "zhi" and "er"), and the antiphonal antiphons are not fully mature.
3. Rhythmic couplet stage
Rhythm couplet is a couplet in metrical poetry. This style of poetry, also known as modern poetry, was formally formed in the Tang Dynasty. But its origins began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. During the Cao Wei Dynasty, Li Deng wrote ten volumes of "Sheng Lei" and Lu Jing wrote five volumes of "Yun Ji", which distinguished clear and voiced sounds and Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu sounds. In addition, Sun Yan wrote "Erya Sound and Meaning" and used Fanqie notation. He was the founder of Fanqie.
General five- or seven-character rhymed poems are composed of eight sentences, with two couplets in the middle, commonly known as chin couplets and neck couplets. This is the standard legal couple.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Weng's rhyme
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Yu
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Couplet