Ziweiyuan gentlefolk

The annual traditional festival Spring Festival has waved to us not far away. To celebrate the Spring Festival, the Chinese nation has an ancient custom of posting Spring Festival couplets. The original Spring Festival couplets were called Fu Tao. The ancients believed that mahogany had the function of suppressing evil spirits and exorcising ghosts, so rectangular red wooden boards were hung on both sides of the gate, and Shen Tu and Lei Yu were painted as symbols. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Meng Yunshi, a master of the post-Shu Dynasty, began to write a pair on the mahogany board: "New Year Qing Yu, Festival Changchun", which is the earliest pair. It became popular in the Song Dynasty, and then red paper was gradually used instead of red boards to become Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets are divided into upper couplets and lower couplets. The first couplet refers to the upper sentence of Spring Festival couplets, also called "sentence", and the second couplet refers to the lower sentence of Spring Festival couplets, also called "antithesis". Spring Festival couplets require that the upper and lower couplets not only have the same number of words, but also be neat and uniform, with the same corresponding words, and monosyllables and polysyllables are symmetrical with the corresponding monosyllables and polysyllables respectively. The suffix of the upper link must be silent (that is, the second sound, the third sound or the fourth sound) and the suffix of the lower link must be flat (that is, the first sound). For example, I wrote Spring Festival couplets:

Heavy snowfall in urban and rural areas of China bid farewell to the old year.

The gospel is widely spread, and Chinese children welcome the Spring Festival.

"Xue Rui" is the gospel, "Flying" is communication, "Urban and Rural" is children, "Ci" is welcome, and "Old Year" is New Year. The suffix "Sui" in the upper couplet is a flat tone, and the suffix "Chun" in the lower couplet is a flat tone.

Every Spring Festival, when we walk in the street, we will see many units, businesses and households posting Spring Festival couplets, but when we look closely, we will often find that many Spring Festival couplets do not meet the requirements and confuse the upper and lower couplets. You can't post Spring Festival couplets when you bring them here. You should read it first to see which couplet is the upper couplet and which is the lower couplet. The last word is "Part One". When people face the door, the upper part should be posted on the right side and the lower part should be posted on the left side. Don't make it upside down, otherwise people will laugh at your lack of necessary cultural common sense.

The Spring Festival is coming. I hope you can choose a pair of tasteful and meaningful Spring Festival couplets to paste and add joy to your life.