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It took many years to build the city of Calgary, and Chinatown has also survived a difficult and suffering era.


Font, Plant, Material property, Art
  • Coupling by Mr. Murakami; writing by Mr. Huang Rixing
  • It was created in 2010
  • This 7-character couplet has far-reaching implications. Calgary and Chinatown have developed a lot of construction over the years. The scene fluctuations of life in the past, through the efforts of generations. The city in front of us has become lively and prosperous
  • A standard couplet, its most essential feature is "antithesis". When it is expressed orally, it is the battle of language, and when it is written, it is the battle of words. What is the meaning of confrontation? Usually, we refer to the 4 items requiring the same number of words, relative parts of speech, flat and oblique, and the same syntax. The most important of the 4 items are the equal number of words and obfuscated
  • Taking the couplet as an example, "a thousand years" and "a hundred years" also reflect the meaning of a long time. "Calgary" and "Chinatown" point out the nouns of 2 places, while "building foundation" and "survived through difficult time" have opposite meanings, and the artistic conception is chic and profound