Our excellent traditional culture in China has a deep origin. As far as couplets are concerned, they are both elegant and popular. Ancient sages and heroes, literati, many people like to write couplets. Many things have become the objects of their chanting, among which there are quite a few about the moon.

Couplets are unique to China in the world. This square ideograph forms the neat pods and symmetrical beauty of mountain species. During the Spring Festival, posting Spring Festival couplets has become an unchangeable custom. Moreover, weddings, funerals and birthday housewarming also include greetings, wedding couplets, elegiac couplets and birthday couplets. Unity and Zhang is a problem worthy of attention in linguistics and literature and art.

China people have a very sacred respect for writing, so we can't spoil writing paper at will and become a habit. Half a century ago, there were paper-burning towers in urban and rural areas, leaving the name "West Uterus Street". This is a kind of Chongwen consciousness. Therefore, making people's couplets is a spiritual gift, which should be a cultural activity in China.

Couplets require that rich emotional and ideological connotations be concentrated in such a simple text to achieve the purity of the text. A word is worth a hundred words, and a word is worth a thousand words. This purification of refined words and expressions makes a couplet achieve the effect that a poem can achieve, and shows the tolerance and tension of China characters, which is wonderful. Mr. Yu Youren of Liu Hou Temple wrote a pair of couplets for the title, which summed up the great wisdom brilliantly in eight words: "Send an awl to Qin and bid farewell to Han."

At this time, I thought of the slogan of promoting traditional culture. A lot of dross is dressed as traditional culture, but this couplet can't enter the field of vision. Chen Yinque, a master historian, gave the examinee of Tsinghua the examination questions, that is, the first part of Monkey, calling on the examinee to object. Today, people are just talking about whether it is good or bad for Hu Shizhi. And Chen Yinque's intention to the students of the joint entrance examination is not to test the richness and imagination of parts of speech and vocabulary? This kind of couplet is associated with Ci Fu, regular poems and refined words and sentences. Li's story in the early Qing Dynasty is related to today's children, who are all tempted by other games that stimulate the senses. Isn't it alienated from traditional culture?

The origin and development of couplets

There are different opinions about the origin of couplets. But researchers generally believe that the origin of couplets (more accurately, Spring Festival couplets) is attached. As early as the Warring States Period. In the Central Plains, every household hangs a "peach stalk" or "peach symbol" during the Spring Festival. According to Huainanzi, this "peach symbol" is made of peach wood one inch wide and seven or eight times long. Write the names of two gods, God Difference and Lei Yu (pronounced making a tree of God and Yulu), or draw two gods, left and right, and hang them on both sides of the door. Legend has it that shentu and Lei Yu are two brothers, both gods, who live under a big peach tree on Dushuo Mountain. For those evil spirits who are bent on harming others, they are tied up with reeds, which leads the tiger to delete 1. Later, people used these two "door gods" to suppress evil spirits.

During the Five Dynasties, Fu Tao had a new development. According to the book Shu Prayer, Meng Changjun, the queen of Shu in the Five Dynasties, wrote an inscription on her bedroom door on the New Year's Eve before returning to Song Dynasty. Meng Chang felt that his handwriting was not neat, so he wrote a title: "Qing Yu in the New Year; Jiajie Changchun. " Some people think that this is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China.

Couplets were formed in the Five Dynasties and were widely used in the Song Dynasty. During this period, couplets were not limited to being inscribed on mahogany boards, but extended to columns called "couplets" for birthday celebration and hanging, and were inscribed in study rooms and temples. For example, Sun Yi mentioned that his wife was born in March 14, and made a birthday couplet for him: "Tianya will be full in January; There are centenarians in the world. "

During the Northern Song Dynasty, couplets were also used in literary works. In the novels of the Song Dynasty, words like "queer" and "exactly" are often followed by couplets. For example, "Soap carving chasing purple swallows" in "Rolling Jade Guanyin"; Tigers spit lambs. ""Never frown in my life; There should be no gnashing of teeth in the world. "In this book, every article has several couplets. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the titles of Zhang Hui's novels also used couplets. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Journey to the West, etc. They are all the same, but the antithesis is not as rigorous as the couplet.

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to the vigorous advocacy of Zhu Yuanzhang and Ming Taizu, couplets were greatly popularized. On New Year's Eve, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial edict, asking officials and people to put on a pair of Spring Festival couplets. He also checked the implementation in person under an anonymous name. When I arrived at the city gate, I found that a family had not posted couplets, so I went forward to ask what had happened. It turns out that the owner of this family is a butcher who kills pigs. He can't read himself, and he can't invite anyone at the end of this year, so he has to sit in the house and worry. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote him a pair of Spring Festival couplets: "Split the road of life and death with both hands; Cut off the roots with one knife. " In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang personally presented the Spring Festival couplets to Bachelor Tao An and others. The emperor's attention gradually formed the custom of writing Spring Festival couplets. Couplets were popular at that time, and a large number of couplets such as Jie Jin, Zhu Yunming and Tang Yin appeared.