Chinese culture, broad and profound, has a long history, and is all-encompassing, and one of the branches is the couplet culture. Chinese New Year's Eve, every household must paste the door link, resign the old and welcome the new, and the door link is one of the applications of the couplet in daily production and life, in addition, in the wedding, opening, ceremony, funeral and many other scenes, you can see the traces of the couplet.
Couplets are an indispensable intellectual activity for the gathering of ancient literati and inkers. Couplets, like bards, don't have many restrictions on equipment, venue, and identity background, and can participate as long as they are quick-witted.
When the couplet culture that has been handed down to this day has a very long history, the earliest couplet is written on the peach wood, known as the "peach symbol", it is said to have many effects such as driving away evil towns, seeking benefits and avoiding harm.
Couplets are also known as pairs, and throughout the ages, there have been many pairs of masters, and of course, many classic absolute and beautiful stories have been left behind.
Couplets may seem simple, but they are not simple. Although the couplet does not have a poetic endowment, many restrictions on the rhythm and the peace, but the couplet also has its own unique difficulties, the couplet is divided into the upper and lower links, corresponding to the yin and yang philosophy in the "Zhou Yi", therefore, the upper and lower links in the couplet should correspond one by one, and the words are interlocked.
In order to increase the difficulty of couplets, the ancients evolved many forms in the format of the uplink, such as the emergence of many forms such as number couplets, yingjing links, split word combinations, overlapping word combinations, palindromic links and many other forms.
Couplets are not only word games, but also the collision of ideas, the embodiment of wisdom, and the beauty of culture.
For a simple example, the four famous works are well known, and the plots in the books are familiar to people. There is such a couplet, combined with the content of the four famous works, which is both interesting and vivid, and at the same time rich in life philosophy, which makes people read with thousands of thoughts, this couplet, of course, is also a classic absolute.
This upper link is: "The bird is in the cage, hate Guan Yu can not Zhang Fei", the corresponding lower link, is "people live in the world, to the eight precepts more need Goku"
So, can you come up with a horizontal batch of this couplet?
Through couplets, people can also reflect their love for a thing.
For example, Jin Yong's martial arts novels, which have been popular all over the country, have won the love of Chinese people at home and abroad, and the "great hero, for the country and the people" in martial arts has influenced one reader after another. Readers have connected Jin Yong's fourteen long martial arts into a couplet, the upper link "Flying Snow Shooting White Deer in the Sky", the lower link "Laughing Book Divine Hero Leaning on the Bi Duck", this couplet, although not smooth enough, but its connotation is extremely rich, Jin Yong also inscribed it on both sides of the door of his study.
Today, to talk about this interesting couplet, the upper link is "eight precepts bathing, pig water", don't look at this uplink is simple and even somewhat humorous, in essence, this uplink has an article, because "pig going into the water" is not simple, it is the name of a dish, in order to correspond to it, the lower link must choose the characters in the four famous works, but also appear in the dish name, the difficulty is here.
Netizens hidden dragon Crouching Tiger, even if the upper link is difficult, it is difficult to defeat the witty netizens, a netizen gave a classic downlink, which was praised by everyone, this lower link is - "If you come over the mountain, the Buddha jumps the wall"
Buddha jumping wall corresponding to pig water, are the name of the dish cuisine, Buddha jumping wall is a famous dish in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, as early as the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years, this dish was famous in the north and south of the river. Buddha jumping off the wall is not only rich in nutrients, but also fragrant four, is a model of Chinese cuisine "full of color and fragrance", just so-called: "The altar opens the meat and incense floats around, and the Buddha smells and abandons Zen to jump the wall." ”