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26 February 2026
Construction-based Shanxi Merchants Residence Couplets Translating
Junfang Chen1*
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1 Humanities and Social Science College, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
© 2026 by the Authors. Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

As the quintessence of Shanxi Merchants culture, Shanxi Merchants couplets reflect the way of merchant success, so their translation and spreading are of great significance. However, so far there has been no related research results. The approach to construction-based translation is an efficient way to couplet translation. It’s because the two lines of the couplet have same number of characters, part of speech, syntactic structure, harmonious rhythm, related meanings, shared purpose, rich culture, and approach to construction-based translation stresses taking multiple elements of construction into consideration and balance them. In this paper a multi-dimensional couplet analysis frame has been designed and applied to criticize and better existed Shanxi Merchants couplet translations.

Keywords
construction-based translation
Shanxi Merchants residence
couplet translation
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