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History Of Chinese Couplets

Posted on:2013-07-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1105330395453053Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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The Chinese couplet, also named antithetical couplet, is a type of applied literature. The Chinese nationality expresses it by two antithetical and meaning-related sentences. Dating back to723BC at the latest, it was expedited by literary content of parallel rhapsody and regulated verse and wrote on "Taofu".It developed in Song and Yuan dynasty but was not well preserved. In Song dynasty, the Chinese couplet was mostly written on "Taofu" and appeared various forms. The similarities of the Chinese couplet between Song and Yuan dynasty are:it based mainly on five characters and seven characters with some four characters too. There were clear marks of verses and putting sentences from which can trace its rudiment in Tang dynasty.As rising stage of the Chinese couplet, books-to-be appeared to close up to the antithetical couplet in Ming dynasty. With rapid growth of the amount of writers on the Chinese couplet, the works preserved in Ming dynasty broke through Song and Yuan dynasty in quantity and also enriched its type which led to separate collection of the Chinese couplet.The Chinese couplet steadily rose in early Qing dynasty, possessed strong ideas of begging happy life. With the transformation of Eight-Part Essay, it influenced the development of the Chinese couplet from the part of theme, conception, wenqi and the use of writing. The preface to the Chinese couplet used more and more frequently, with abundant content and various forms.Prosperous in advanced Qing dynasty, the Chinese couplet became the main channel of social cultural communication, and tripled in the amount of separate collection. The renaissances of Tongchen culture influenced the Chinese culture from the perspective of sentence and wording, which promoted the development of vernacular couplet, and proverb, slang and dialect used in the Chinese couplet enlarged its express ability. Jilian developed very quickly, which involved the Confucian classics (Classics, Histories, Scuds of Ideas, and Collections of Works).Among various schools of antithetical couplet in advanced Qing dynasty, there was neither leader nor obvious theoretical opinions. Due to region network and industry network, writer group displayed its consistence in Hunan, while weakened in Jiangsu, Zhengjiang, and Anhui.The Chinese couplet criticism gained plentiful and substantial achievements in advanced Qing dynasty, with Zhangju Liang couplet series as the representative. Later, Qingquan Lin and Yinggao Zhu preserved the works left over and made a textual criticism on it. However, Zengwang Zhao weakened the function of document preservation while independentized the Chinese couplet criticism.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Chinese couplet, history, development, tales on the Chinese couplet
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