Couplets New Sayings

Author: Lu Jiaji
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive monograph on the culture of couplets. The author has collected a large number of classic couplets, anecdotes, and stories related to couplets, as well as the rhetorical principles of creating them, to study Chinese couplet culture and explore its profound meanings. The content is organized in a style similar to Shishuo Xinyu, categorized into twenty-four sections such as surnames, anecdotes, academies, legends, solar terms, errors, clever creations, mourning, travel tales, delightful stories, elegant hobbies, and rivalries, etc. It innovates in the field of couplet studies, aiming to avoid the conventions and precedents of predecessors, making it highly worth reading.