What is the custom of posting couplets?

Sticking couplets is a traditional custom in China, which embodies the good wishes of working people in China to ward off evil spirits and welcome good luck. Every year when the Spring Festival comes, every household sticks various couplets on the door to add festive colors to the festival.

Couplets depict beautiful images and express good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for China people to celebrate the New Year. When people post New Year greetings (Spring Festival couplets and blessings, etc.). ) put it at their doorstep, which means the official start of the Spring Festival.

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Precautions for posting couplets:

First, the number of words should be equal and the sentences should be consistent. In addition to deliberately leaving the position of a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower parts must be the same.

Second, it is necessary to be honest and have a harmonious tone. The traditional habit is to curl up and fall flat, that is, curl up at the end of the last sentence and curl up at the end of the last sentence.

Third, the parts of speech should be relative and the position should be consistent. It is generally called "virtual to virtual, real to real", which means that nouns to nouns, verbs to verbs, adjectives to adjectives, quantifiers to quantifiers, adverbs to adverbs and related words must be in the same position.

Fourth, the content should be related and run through from top to bottom. The meaning of up and down links must be interrelated, but they cannot be repeated.