Taking the long Chinese antithetical couplets about Daguanlou Storied Building as an example, this paper discusses the eighteen general aesthetic features of Chinese Antithetical Couplets.
The antithetical couplets are a unique traditional form of Chinese literature, and are of various styles.
Whether morally or artistically, Chinese antithetical couplets have the function of education.
we have red antithetical couplets on our doors, we set off firecracker, we light candles and wait for the new year to come.
They are highly literary, and full of rhetorical devices. The antithetical couplets are always to the liking of the Chinese people in the past and at the present.
In the Song Dynasty (960 -1279), the antithetical couplets began to be written on the wood to express people's good wishes as well as being a decoration.
