How many characters are there in the Spring Festival couplets?

Spring couplets are a type of couplets and a unique literary form. It describes the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. It is a Chinese literary form. Every Spring Festival, every household, whether in urban or rural areas, selects a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and sticks them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

Four-character, five-character, six-character, seven-character, eight-character, nine-character, cross, eleven-character, 12-character, 13-character and hundreds of characters long

Classification

Classification by purpose

1. General couplets - Spring Festival couplets

2. Special couplets - tea couplets, longevity couplets, wedding couplets, wedding couplets, elegiac couplets , industry couplet, motto couplet, gift couplet, question and answer couplet

Classification by word count

1. Short couplet (within crosses)

2. Central couplet ( Within 100 words)

3. Long couplets (more than 100 words), etc.

Classification by rhetorical skills

1. Coupling couplets: speech pair, matter pair, positive pair, opposition, work pair, wide pair, flowing pair, palindrome pair, and top pair. 2. Rhetorical couplets: metaphor, hyperbole, rhetoric, pun, question, homophony.

3． Skilled couplets: embedded words, hidden words, compound words, repeated words, radicals, analyzed words, split words, numbers.

Classification according to the source of couplets

1. Collection of sentence couplets: couplets composed entirely of ready-made sentences in ancient poems.

2. Collection of word couplets: couplets composed of words from ancient articles and calligraphy copybooks.

3. Excerpted couplets: couplets made by directly excerpting the couplets from other people’s poems.

4. Creative couplets: couplets created independently by the author himself.