When designing characters or plots,the novels of Ming and Qing dynasties are usually like making an-tithetical couplets,couplet by couplet,and organizing various narrative units relatively. Such a antithetical thought is intuitively embodied in the application of the following three different types of couplets:“couplet of the chapter subtitles”,“tail couplet of the chapter”,and“inserted couplet of the chapter”,which become an organic composition of the conceptions of the novels;yet in the design of characters and plots,it sometimes breaks away from the external form of the couplets,and organizes various narrative units relatively like making antithetical cou-plets.