introduction
China for thousands of years has a rich traditional culture, these customs and humanities have been passed down to the present, today's society is a trend of traditional culture, people are more concerned about ancient culture. Couplets are one of the elegant cultural traditions, which have been in the annals since the Three Kingdoms period and have existed for thousands of years. In addition to the literati and gentlemen who choose to be pairs to cultivate their sentiments when they are elegant, couplets also have many applications in life. Just like during the Spring Festival, the Qing Dynasty Jiangnan Jingshi wrote in the "Spring Festival": "The streets and streets are decorated with colorful family dusters, sweeping away the peach symbols for couplets." "Couplets and people's lives have long been closely related and inseparable.
However, couplets are not only used during the Spring Festival, in many temple monuments, in front of the gates of these ancient buildings, almost all the doorposts on both sides will be printed with couplets, and these couplets have accompanied these buildings through an unknown number of spring and autumn seasons, and have also become part of them. But today I want to tell an interesting story about couplets, which is absolutely eternal! Talented women on the league: the wall painted horses can not ride, the general of the league, she blushed. So what the hell is going on?
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Couplets are generally written on the pillars of the building, which are divided into upper and lower links, paying attention to the relative words of the flat and the relative, and the attributes must also be relative. The two couplets have an equal number of words, and there is a rhythm to the battle work, a good absolute, most of which have been passed down through the ages, and are still famous today. Just like this couplet "Flower armor reunion, increase three or seven years; ancient rare double celebration, more once spring and autumn." ”
Legend has it that this was a couplet given to an old man who had a birthday when ji Xiaolan accompanied the Qianlong Emperor out to play. Shanglian was made for Qianlong, the flower armor is 60 years old, and the two flower armor plus 21 years is 141 years old. After Qianlong came up with the upper link, he asked Ji Xiaolan to make the lower link, and Ji Xiaolan, the talented man, blurted out the lower link after thinking for a short while, and the ancient rarity referred to the 70-year-old, and the two gu rare plus one year, which happened to be 141 years old. It is really wonderful, not only the words are fighting, but even the content year is equal at the end, worthy of Ji Xiaolan, giving such a good link.
There are many more interesting stories about couplets like this, and the earliest couplets should have appeared during the Three Kingdoms period when Sun Quan was in power. Historical sources record that in the Luling Tomb in Jiangxi during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, an iron cross was unearthed, on which there was a couplet such as "Qing'anlan of the Four Seas, The Iron Pillar Baoguang Liu Cross; Wanmin Huai Daze, Golden Furnace Incense Seal Qianqiu". Experts believe that the origin of the couplet comes from the piao text and the rhythm poem, which pays attention to the flat and the work of the battle, and the verses are opposite, which gives birth to the couplet. However, if you want to come up with a good couplet, you must also look at the human literacy skills of the pair, and only rich accumulation can write absolutes.
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There is also an interesting story about the couplet, according to legend, during the Qianlong period, a general ended the war and set off to return to China, only to be seen by a young girl when he rode a horse on the streets of the capital. Soon she made pairs, saying, "Horses painted on the wall cannot be ridden." Obviously, this talented woman thinks that the general is a straw bag, has no talent for fighting, and is not good at military. However, this kind of thinking is really one-sided, a boudoir girl does not often go out of the door, does not understand the border situation and the ability of the general. Soon this couplet also reached the general's ears, but the general who heard the league did not react much, but gave a lower couplet.
This link is precisely "talking on paper and getting rid of reality", which is really a very clever approach. In such a euphemistic way, the talented woman understands that imagining it out of thin air cannot be true. After that, this couplet also spread, and after hearing the general's answer, the talented woman became ashamed and embarrassed, and immediately blushed, thinking that she understood the general's response. And this couplet has also become absolute, passed down to this day, and the story behind it has also been talked about for a long time.
epilogue
In fact, couplets are a form of literary development, and can also be regarded as a way of relaxing for ancient literati and inkers. When writing an article or reading a book is stuck in a bottleneck, do couplets to ease emotions. In ancient times, there were also books specifically about how to make pairs, "clouds to rain, snow to wind, evening light to clear skies" is from the book "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment", which shows that the ancients were indeed extremely enthusiastic about couplets.
bibliography:
Qing Dynasty Jiangnan Jingshi "Spring Festival"
"Sound Rhythm Enlightenment"