When I was young, I always felt that compared with other forms of writing, couplets were the simplest. After all, to write a good couplet, you don't need to learn to be rich like writing poetry and songs. When I grew up, I realized that the culture hidden in the couplet was no less than the ancient poems.
A good couplet, in the final analysis, is actually a battle. In fact, the 2 words of "confrontation" include at least 4 layers of meaning: the syntax is the same, that is, the upper link is a question sentence, and the lower link must also be a question sentence; the number of words is equal, which is a hard condition; the part of speech is relative, and the part of speech in the same position must be the same; the part of speech in the same position must be the same; the flat and the poor, which is basically ignored for many modern people who do not know much about the flat, so now the general couplet rarely has this requirement.
Couplets have lengths, the shortest couplet has only one word, such as the upper link "ink", it seems that it is not easy to be simple, and the best lower link should be "spring". This is because the upper part of the word "ink" is black, which is a color; the lower part is "earth", one of the five elements. With the word "spring" as opposed, the top is a "white", and the bottom is also one of the five elements, which is very neat.
There are also very long couplets, such as the "world's first long couplet" in the Dianchi Grand View Building in Kunming, Yunnan. This long link has a total of 1612 characters, which was written by the Qing Dynasty couplet master Sun Qiweng. This long couplet is both a scene and a history, full of ocean and majestic atmosphere, attracting many couplet lovers who come to admire every year.
The short link of one word is very exquisite, and the long link of 1612 words is not written by ordinary people, so the author of this issue will tell you a link that is not long or short. This uplink consists of 7 words, as follows:
Both the upper and lower hearts are worried
As soon as the master looks at this upper link, he should understand that this is actually a word breaking link. The word "hesitation" is broken down, the upper heart refers to the word "忐", and the lower heart refers to the word "忑". More importantly, these 7 words actually vividly and perfectly explain what is called trepidation. To put the lower link on top, it is necessary to find the same word as "nervous", the side of the word must be the same, and it must be able to explain the meaning of the word when taken apart. In fact, it is to find some very special hieroglyphs, this word in Chinese is actually not much, so this uplink seems simple, but the lower link has made many people think about the brain shell pain.
But no matter how difficult the couplet is, it is difficult for our folk masters. The author and everyone say that the 3 masters of the lower link, each of which is classic enough, wonderful.
The first one: The nine supervisors and nine sukes are all embarrassed
This lower link is right from the perspective of the word breaking itself, it takes apart the word "embarrassment", so it is a bit horizontal. But the flaw is that these 7 words as a whole are difficult to explain the original meaning of embarrassment.
The second one: the mountain is rugged in the mountainous area
Compared with the previous lower link, this lower link is not so far-fetched, and the "mountain strange mountain" and the rugged are indeed somewhat related.
The third one: the left man and the right side of the person is difficult to say
This lower link is the most neat of the 4 lower links. "Zuoyou" is a Chinese word that generally means to assist and support. There are so many people, but it is difficult to give people support, which is actually "nansayou".
The above three lower links, each of which has its own characteristics, although they are not perfect, but it is not easy to be able to do so, after all, the upper link is indeed enough. In addition, there are many masters who have faced "Mudong Muxi Mudongqi", but the word Dongqi is not a common word, so it cannot be counted correctly. A 7-character couplet that looks very simple, but it is so difficult, it can be seen that it is indeed not easy to play with Chinese characters. What will you do about this uplink? Discussion is welcome.