The couplet requires neatness and coordination

The basic rule of bai used by Lian Ping Qian du: horseshoe rhyme.

Qing man Lin Changyi said zhi

Where the sentence is in the flat sound, the top sentence is also in the flat sound; For those who have a bad voice, the top couplet is also in a good voice. By analogy, the syllables are all out of tune. (Lin Qingquan's "Couplet Narrative") This passage is in other words, "Ping Ding Ping, Ping Ding Ping".

This rule of use of couplets is called "horseshoe rhyme", also known as "horseshoe grid".

It is called the horseshoe rhyme, because its law is just like the horse's step, the back foot always steps on the front foot footprint, and each footprint has to be stepped on twice. If the foot on one side is flat, and the foot on the other side is flat, and the left and right sides take turns, then "Pingping" is followed by "Pingping", and "Pingping" is followed by "Pingping". In view of the fact that there is no follow-up between the initial standing point of the hind foot and the standing point of the front foot when standing, the beginning and end should be single flat or single.

The use of horseshoe rhyme on the feet of couplets:

1. The use of horseshoe rhyme in couplets is divided into positive and declension.

2. If the sentence foot is flat and fully meets the requirements of horseshoe rhyme, it is a positive case.

3. The footing of the two sentences on each side is flat, and its positive case is "Ping, Ping".

4. The footing of the three sentences on each side is flat, and its positive case is "Pingping, Pingping".

The relationship between the couplet: In addition to the requirements of the battle, the couplet should generally be flat and flat, that is, the word at the end of the couplet should be used in a word, which is equivalent to the three or four tones of modern Chinese, and the ending word of the lower couplet is generally a flat tone, which is equivalent to one or two tones of the current hail and burning generation of Chinese. From a phonological point of view, it reads both subdued and uplifted, and is pleasant to the ear.

This method can also be used to check whether the couplets are hanging right or not.

It's not a big deal to post couplets, it's auspicious, even if it's wrong, no one will prompt it. However, since it is a traditional national culture, we cannot make mistakes. In ancient times, couplets were written from right to left, so the upper couplet was on the right side of the door.

There is a causal relationship between the upper and lower couplets of many couplets, and if you read them backwards, they will not make sense, and they will make jokes if they are wrong.

It is required that the words of the couplet are neat, the pronunciation is abrupt, and the pronunciation is catchy.

The theory of Pingqian is like dividing the students in four classes (four tones) into two categories according to their gender. As to whether such a division is even, it is not for the equalizers to consider. The four tones, here refer to the four tones of ancient Chinese.

To know the four tones, we must first know how the tones are composed. So let's start with the tone.

Tone, which is characteristic of the Chinese language (and some other languages). The height, rise and fall of the phonetic sound, and the length of the voice constitute the tone of the Chinese language, and the height and rise and fall are the main factors. In Mandarin, for example, there are four tones:

Yin Ping sound is a high flat tone (neither rising nor falling is called flat); Yang Pingsheng is a medium rising tone (not high, not low, and called medium); The upper tone is a low rising tone (sometimes a low flat tone); Desonication is a high falling tone.

The name in the Pingxuan:

In Chinese names, there are those who are completely flat such as Wang Xizhi, those who are flat such as Ye Guichun, and those who are peaceful such as Chen Hongshou. There are Andy Lau (Pingping), Jet Li and Li Lingyu, etc. There is Zhang Li in the flat format, and Ma Ming in the flat format.

The one in the form has leaves, and the one in the flat format has a bridge.

The speed of speech can be changed, but the vibration frequency of the vocal cords is relatively fixed. The harmony of syllables is not entirely in the harmony itself, such as the word Singapore is three consecutive ping. But everyone doesn't think it's noisy.

Today, when we talk about peace, we emphasize the naturalization of peace, so as to avoid the dispute between peacemaking and non-formality.

The couplet is required to have the upper link to end with the sound of the voice, the lower link to the end of the flat sound key to destroy, and the upper and lower links are relatively equal.

Couplets, also known as couplets, door pairs, spring stickers, spring couplets, pairs, couplets, etc., are written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood, and pillars. The couplets are neat and harmonious, and they are a unique art form of Chinese with one word and one sound. The number of words should be equal and the sentences should be consistent.

Except for deliberately vacating the space of a certain word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower conjunctions must be the same, no more, no less. It should be evenly compatible, harmonious in tone, and the last word of the last sentence of the upper link should be used in the sound of the voice, and the last word of the last sentence of the lower line should be used in the flat sound.

The parts of speech should be relative and the position should be the same. It is generally called "virtual to virtual, real to real", that is, noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, quantifier to quantifier, adverb to adverb, and the relative words must be in the same position. The content should be relevant and cohesive.

The meanings of the upper and lower links must be connected to each other, but they must not be repeated. The traditional practice of hanging couplets must also be written vertically, from right to left, from top to bottom, and cannot be reversed.

Origins of development:

Couplets are also known as couplets, door pairs, spring stickers, spring couplets, pairs, peach symbols, couplets (named after the pillars that were hung in the halls and palaces in ancient times), etc., is a kind of dual literature, a wild oak originated from the peach symbol. The other ** is the spring sticker, the ancients in the beginning of the spring more paste the word "Yichun", and then gradually developed into the Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of evil spirits and disasters, welcome auspicious blessings. A couplet is a dual sentence written on paper, cloth, or carved on bamboo, wood, or a pillar.

Concise and profound, neat, evenly coordinated, with the same number of words and the same structure, it is a unique art form of Chinese language. The pun and the lyric poems are the two direct sources of the couplet. In the process of its own development, the couplet also absorbed the characteristics of ancient style poetry, prose, lyrics and songs.

Therefore, the sentence patterns used in couplets, in addition to the rhythmic verse form and the prose sentence form, there are also ancient style verse forms, prose sentence forms, and imitation words and song sentences. Different sentence patterns are applicable to different rhythms, and the leniency and severity are different.

Among them, the rhythm of the verse style is the most stringent, and the ancient style of the verse is not informal, except for the requirements for the end of the sentence.

First of all, to understand Pingxuan, we must start with ancient tones. The ancient sound is divided into four tones: flat and in. Among them, yin and yang are equally divided, that is, yin and yang.

Let's talk about Mandarin now. Nowadays, Mandarin has four tones, so there is no need to say much about this. Now the first sound is the ancient yinping, the second sound is yangping, the third sound is the upper sound, and the fourth sound is the going sound.

So where have all the ancient phonetic characters gone? They are divided into the four tones that are now in place. For example, "black (one sound), stone (two tones), cypress (three tones), and falling (four tones)" used to be sounding words.

Since the ancients regarded flat as flat and went up and entered as a flat, basically, one and two tones of Mandarin are flat, and three and four tones are 仄. But in order to distinguish between the ordinary and the plain, modern guessers must remember all the words that used to be phonetic. Because now there are a large number of words that used to be in the sound of the forest.

Memorizing all the phonetic words is the basic skill to distinguish between the plain. If you want to talk about rules, there are some. For example, all the words with ie ue as the finals are sound-inducing words, and for example, you only need to remember that "white" is scattered and mu-in-sound, and you will know that "cypress, bo, fear, park" and so on are all sound-inducing words.

In addition, it is worth noting that for example, the word "look", because it is a polyphonic word, it is both flat and 仄, and the key to distinguishing the word is to look at the meaning of the word.