Couplets, also known as Yang Lian, are an extension of classical Chinese poetry literature and art, and are also the most cultural form with Chinese characteristics, which originally originated from the popular "peach symbol" in ancient China.
Ancient Chinese peach charms
Couplets can be divided into poetry couplets and prose couplets according to their grammatical characteristics. In general, the requirements of the traditional couplet are more neat than the requirements of the poetic rhythm.
In the process of long-term development, couplets have gradually become the most popular and popular literary and artistic categories of the people at all levels, from the high-ranking officials and nobles to the elegant scribes, down to the peddlers and pawns, the countryside and other people. Writing right, going out right, right right used to be the norm.
Historically, there have been many pleasing pairs of famous couples, but also many strange couples with ingenious ideas, unique artistic conceptions, breathtaking, and bent over backwards. These small couplets, like the small flowers of the immortal garden of the literary world, bloom in the history of Chinese culture, blooming with an eternal artistic fragrance, which is timeless!
1. Harmonic union
Its 1:
Uplink: a spider under the eaves;
Lower link: The earthworm in front of the gallery is full of mud.
[Note]: "Silk meaning" harmonic "thought", "mud heart" harmonic "nickname heart".
Its 2:
Uplink: Lotus because of the lotus
Bottom link: There are apricots without plums
[Note]: The "Lotus" harmonic "He" and "Lotus" harmonic "even" of the upper link; the "apricot" harmonic "lucky" and "plum" harmonious "medium" of the lower link. The meaning of this association is that people ask you how to find the object? The man replied that he was lucky enough not to need a matchmaker, and that the marriage would come.
Its 3:
Shanglian: Whose zhuangzi is in front of a garden?
Lower link: A few lines of text on the wall which Chinese book.
[Note] The "Zhuangzi" of the Upper League refers to both the Zhuangzi of the village and the "Zhuangzi Zhouzhuang" of the Taoists in the Hundred Sons of Zhuzi; the "Book of Han" of the Lower Link also has two meanings, both referring to the Hanzi writing and the "Book of Han", one of the twenty-four histories of ancient China and compiled by the Eastern Han Dynasty Bangu.
Second, the color and taste are linked
Shanglian: White Tower Street, Yellow Blacksmith, Stove, Burning Black Charcoal, Green Smoke, Flashing Blue Light, Quenching Purple Gold, Sitting North and Facing South to Fight Things;
Lower link: Tamsui Bay, Bitter Man, Wearing Liang Kasa, Flexing The Waist, Top Spicy Day, Salty Man, Harvesting Beets, Adopting Wives and Godsons and Raising Children and Grandchildren.
[Note]: This is a natural pair of prose couplets. The upper link "white, red, yellow, black, blue, purple" seven colors + "southeast and northwest" four directions, the lower link "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, light, cool" seven types of taste + "wife, children and grandchildren" family members. The taste is extremely ingenious to the color, it is simply a heaven-made design, too neat!
III. Palindromic Union:
Its 1: the guest on the natural residence, actually the heavenly guest.
Its 2: monks travel to Yunyin Temple, temples to hide yunyun monks.
Its 3: fog lock mountain head mountain lock fog, the sky even water tail water day after day.
Its 4: Phoenix falling sycamore sycamore falling phoenix, beads combined with beads.
Its 5: Xiushan Qingyu Qingshan Xiu, Xiangtong Blowing Wind Drum TongXiang.
[Note]: Palindromic is the same as mindfulness and anti-thought, which also fully reflects the unique charm of Chinese characters! Can the language of other countries be done?
Fourth, the stacked word union:
Uplink: High and low trees ding-dong dong spring,
Downlink: Overlapping and overlapping mountains meandering roads.
Uplink: The sky is close to the top of the mountain to the mountainside sky is farther;
Downlink: The moon floats to the bottom of the water and the moon still sinks.
Shanglian: Buddha's feet clear spring drifting, fluttering, floating down two jade belts;
Lower link: The source of the living water, bubbling, bubbling up, a string of pearls.
V. Digital Linkage:
Shanglian: 10,000 tiles and thousands of bricks, 100 days to create a cross temple;
Downlink: One boat and two bridges, three people shake across the four bridges.
Shanglian: one hand is in the sky, five fingers, three long and two short;
Lower link: Liuhe standing, nine floors and eight sides and four sides.
Shanglian: Boy Knocking Tongzi, 123456789;
Lower link: Taoist on the Taoist potential, A ethyl propylene butyl heptyl heptyl heptyl xin decyl.
Its 4:
Shanglian: There are three points of water, two points of bamboo, and one moon;
Downlink: Through the five-step building, ten-step pavilion, look at the hundred-step river.
Its 5:
Shanglian: Five hundred arhats crossing the river, a thousand Buddhas on the shore;
Lower Link: A young girl yinyue, two chanjuan in heaven and on earth.
6. Homophones:
Uplink: Tune the piano tune the new tune to tune the tune;
Downlink: Plant flowers and plant good varieties of incense.
[Note]: The correct pronunciation should be: the "tune" of the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 8th of the upper link reads "tiao" (same as the "article"), and the rest of the "tune" is pronounced as "diao" (same as "drop"); the "species" of the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 8th of the lower link reads "zhong" four sounds, and the remaining "species" pronounces "zhong" three sounds. Did you pronounce it correctly (you must first break the sentence correctly to pronounce it smoothly)?
Shanglian: The sea is facing towards the direction of the fall;
Downlink: Floating clouds are long, long, long, long, long, long.
[Note]: In ancient times, the chaozi passed the tide, and the long tong rose. The correct reading should be: the tide of the sea is toward the tide, the tide is falling; the floating clouds are rising, rising, rising, rising, and disappearing (it is also necessary to break the sentence correctly first).
7. Homophones of different characters:
Shanglian: Tour west lake tin pot tin pot drop West Lake Xihu Xihu Lake;
Downlink: Selling blue bottles in Nanping to get a rare blue bottle in Nanping.
Shanglian: Wangjiang Lou Wangjiang Liu Wangjiang Lou Wangjiang Lou Wangjiang Liujiang Lou Ancient Rivers Flow;
Shimohaha: Ingetsui Ingetsu Shadow Ingetsu Ingetsu Ingetsu Kagetsuki Tsukii Manjutsu 1000 Years.
Do you like these seemingly bizarre couplets? Looking forward to the talented you add more good pairs to share with everyone.