曾国藩赠联辑说

On Zeng Guofan' s Antithetical Couplets Presented to Friends

所辑10联显示出曾国藩赠联在"不工"基础上的独特的"工":描绘景象,突破真情告白式撰写模式,以模糊取工;或集句、或引典、或化用的集引,以异同取工;或平实、或闲适、或豪放、或浅俗、或典雅的艺术风格,以求变取工。

These ten collections of antithetical couplets demonstrate Zeng Guofan's 'unique exquisiteness' based on his 'non - exquisiteness' . They describe scene, break the mode of expressing feelings in a plain way, with vagueness to achieve exquisiteness; they are composed of lines from various poets, quotations, or collections for the purpose of similarities and differences; their language is either plain or leisurely, bold, simple or refined in the style, in the pursuit of changes.