Let s talk about the salient features of the Chinese Spring Festival couplets from form to content

There are three main forms:1. The modern couplet theory stipulates that the balance of the work, the part of speech, and the content must be the right work.

2. Wide pairs, according to the so-called six elements of couplets, the number of words is equal, the level is relative, the structure is the same, the parts of speech are comparable, the concepts are comparable, and the content is relatively evaluated. The number of words is equal for the upper and lower couplets, except for couplets written by some performance artists, which are generally equal in the number of words in the upper and lower couplets.

3. Clever Connection, a unique form of Chinese literature and art. In the couplet, the light or dark is very clever to contain a certain difficulty of the level, such a couplet is called a clever couplet. The clever link is also called the humorous link or the skill link, commonly known as the machine association, the clever link contains embedded words, hidden words, compound words, overlapping words, sideways, word analysis, word splitting, numbers, etc.

1. Formal characteristics: the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be equal. Confrontation, that is, the part of speech is the same. Relative to each other. The upper end word is the sound (upper sound, go sound), and the lower end word is flat sound (Yin Ping, Yang Ping).

2. Content characteristics: The Spring Festival couplets are mostly expressions of affection, hoping that the year will be auspicious, containing the meaning of welcoming the New Year and celebrating the prosperous world. The Spring Festival couplets are generally relaxed and cheerful, full of joy, and the red color is matched with auspicious words, which adds a joyful atmosphere.

1.There is no limit to the number of words and sentences, and there are common four-word couplets, five-word couplets, seven-word couplets and ten-number hall pure one-word couplets.

3.When creating, the words of the upper and lower couplets are flat and opposed, that is, flat to even, and flat to flat, so as to achieve the aesthetic effect of yin and yang opposite, and harmonious rhyme.

4.There are regular pauses and rhythmic changes in the couplet, reflecting a harmonious sense of rhythm and beauty.

5.Therefore, the rhythm (including both the rhythm and semantics) between the upper and lower couplets should be the same or corresponding, and be as consistent as possible.

6.In terms of syntactic structure, the upper and lower couplets must correspond to each other and be symmetrical with each other.

7.Sentences in modern Chinese are composed of six components: subject, predicate, object, definite, adverbial, and complementary, and the sentence structure of a single sentence is divided into subject-predicate, subject-verb-object, subject-no-subject, pregnant sentence, inverted sentence, and one-word sentence.

8.The parts of speech of the words or phrases corresponding to the upper and lower links should be consistent.

9.Modern Chinese is divided into two categories: real words, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, and quantifiers, and virtual words include adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, particles, interjections, and modal words.

10.i.e. noun to noun, verb to verb, adverb to adverb, etc.

1. Spring Festival couplets: New Year's special door couplets;

2. Helian: birthday, marriage, housewarming, childbirth, opening and other festive occasions;

3. Elegiac couplet: mourning for the deceased;

4. Gifts: praise or exhort others to use;

5. Self-encouragement: self-encouragement;

6. Industry association: different industries are used to stick them in the door or store;

7. Words and Aspirations: The use of ambitions.

Spring Festival couplets are Hui, Jinzhi is also called "spring sticker", "door pair", "couplet", it depicts a beautiful image with neat, concise and exquisite words, expresses good wishes, and is a unique literary form in China. It is an important symbol of the Spring Festival for Chinese people. When people post Spring Festival couplets and blessings at the door of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicks off.

Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should pick up beautiful red spring couplets and paste them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new year, increasing the festive atmosphere.

Form. The Spring Festival is the "first of the hundred festivals" of the Chinese nation.

In Chinese history and civilization, there are many customs to celebrate the Spring Festival, and the most widely preserved custom in the Han folk, especially in the countryside, is to paste the Spring Festival couplets and the door god.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is the first thing that Han folk celebrate the Spring Festival. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching'At that time, every household pasted brand new Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate, with black characters on a red background, steady and bright. Express the good wishes of a family for the New Year, such as "the six animals are scattered and prosperous, and the five grains are abundant"; Or related to the Chinese national Ganzhi culture, the Spring Festival couplets are embedded with the names of zodiac objects such as "rat", "ox", "tiger", "rabbit", dragon", "snake", "horse", "sheep", such as "koi flying to pay for the ambition; auspicious sheep kneeling milk feeling kindness", etc.; Some Spring Festival couplets also pay attention to reflecting the different "happiness concepts" of different industries and different families.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly a meaningful way to observe the folk customs of the Han nationality by carefully studying the Spring Festival couplets posted by people during the Spring Festival.

When did the custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets originate, there is no accurate digging material to verify. However, it may have started in the Later Shu period more than a thousand years ago, which can be confirmed in historical records. In addition, according to the "Wang Candle Treasure Book", "Yanjing Years Chronicles" and other works, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach symbols".

The types of Spring Festival couplets include festive couplets, missing couplets, cave couplets, industry couplets, prayer auspicious couplets, tea couplets, longevity couplets and so on.

1. Festive Union: This is more common and collapsed, and almost every household uses it.

2. Missing: If there is a relative at home (usually within three years), it is used more.

3. Divine Cave Union: It is used in front of the six gods and caves of the house.

4. Industry Federation: All walks of life celebrate the Spring Festival and write and post Spring Festival couplets according to the characteristics of the industry.

5. Pray for auspicious unions: The front and back of the house are pasted with "front red bird", "back Xuanwu", "left green dragon" and "right white tiger", and the door base is pasted with "Rising Sun" and "Purple Shirt Zhaoqi from the East".

6. Tea couplet: Tea couplet, tea shop couplet, tea house couplet, tea culture couplet, tea house couplet, tea house couplet, etc. are all tea couplets.

7. Shoulian: Shoulian is a couplet of Chinese folk birthday celebrations for the elderly, mostly given to the elderly by relatives and friends.