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 August 5,2017, wrote《The Roars of Dragons and Tigers》. In two and a half years, he had written 4,026 Two Pairs Of Couplets. Now selected 200 of them, concentrated《Two Hundreds 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.
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No wind, three feet of waves
There are dreams in four seasons of spring
Love can warm the heart
No music without melody
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One pillow of the book fragrance eliminates vulgarity
Half a window of the bamboo rhyme brings the style of the poetry
This heart has no regret already
In destination, rare to have elegant feeling
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此心早已无俗念
出句:
此心早已无俗念【不正师太】
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An old drunk fishes in snow in the cold river
Visitors recite the bright moonlight
In the mountain rare to smell the plum fragrance
In the courtyard suitable to plant the bamboo rhyme
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庭内适宜植竹韵
出句:
庭内适宜植竹韵【不正师太】
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Maple red suddenly understand the autumn warms
Couch cold can know the home is lonely
Slender hands cook and steam ten thousand flavours of poetry
Lotus feet have danced
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纤手烹蒸诗万味
出句:
纤手烹蒸诗万味【不正师太】
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A false scholar is obsessed in the treasure
A real gentleman weak to see wealth and fame
Pale writing understatement to talk about sun and moon
Chase the wind and clutch at shadows to drive out haze
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Bright moon and cool breeze neighbor bamboos
Leisure rose clouds and wild cranes accompany peaks
Pine needle difficult to mend summer's ragged clouds
Rain thread hard to mend autumn's cleft leaves
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