Introduction Of Two Pairs Of Couplets. Poem by Luo Zhihai

Introduction of Two Pairs Of Couplets

By Luo Zhihai

China is a country of poetry. In China, the number of people who write and enjoy the couplet countless. But Two Pairs of Couplets, put in plain language, is poetry of the two pairs of couplets, need more people to enjoy in popularity.
On February 6,2015, Luo Zhihai began writing 《Bird in Silence and Mountain High》. To February 5,2017, wrote《Pink and Gorgeous》. He had written 2,800 Two Pairs Of Couplets. Now selected 200 of them, concentrated《Two Hundred of Two Pairs Of Couplets》.
Two Pairs Of Couplets, comes from couplets, that comes from the third and fourth, the fifth and sixth of antithesis sentences of regulated verse of Tang Dynasty, too.
It's same as quatrain, was stipulated four sentences. But the words exceed verse and quatrain. Not only five or seven words, can also be nine or ten words or more words.
Its level and oblique tones, strictly according to level and oblique tones of verse and quatrain. The tones, Aojiu, repeated word and rhyme of nine or ten words or more words, are continuing and expanding of the tones, Aojiu, repeated word and rhyme of quatrain. In the same Two Pairs Of Couplets, use ancient or modern pronunciation of Chinese characters. Can not be mixed with the ancient and modern.
All using ancient rhyme no modern rhyme is typeset with the original complex form of a simplified Chinese character. All using modern rhyme or ancient and modern in the same rhyme are typeset with simplified Chinese character.
Its even numbers sentences are rhymed level tones. Its odd number sentences usually are not rhymed. They can be rhymed oblique tones.
Between its second and third sentences, level and oblique tones are same.
Per two sentences of Two Pairs Of Couplets are a pairs of couplets. Its five words is antithesis sentences of five words of quatrain. Its seven words is antithesis sentences of seven words of quatrain. Nine and ten words? I think, from my beginning, call them nine and ten words of quatrains!
Two Pairs Of Couplets suitably put up the four gate posts of the three shops side by side in the same line.