Couplets, also known as antithesis, antithesis, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, Taofu and couplets (named after the pillars hanging in halls and houses in ancient times), are a kind of dual literature, which originated from Taofu. Another source is the spring release. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.
Couplets are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of Chinese, concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure.
Parallel prose style
An article written in parallel prose style is called parallel prose, which pays attention to neat words, duality, harmonious phonology and gorgeous rhetoric. Parallel prose became popular after the Han Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and later influenced the literary history of China for thousands of years. Couplets were also influenced by it, and the parallel style couplets were fully played in the Qing Dynasty's long couplets.
This style was rare before the Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, couplets became longer and longer. Since then, the style of parallel prose has been fully exerted.
For example, Li Lianfen wrote a couplet on the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan: a thousand-year wonder, coming from the earth, looking down at the phoenix cave, the parrot flying around, the oriole fishing on the rock island, and the Jiege Pavilion in Qingchuan. It was a beautiful spring and autumn month, leaving only mountains and water. I am extremely worried about the present. When did Cui Hao write the poem, and when did Violet put pen to paper?
How many people found the Yangtze River? Looking at Hankou in the distance, the sun sets, the Dongting rises far, the night rain is raining in Xiaoxiang, and the clouds are dreaming, leaving only a faint smoke and a narrow world, all of which give ethereal flutes and crane shadows.