When is the best time to post couplets this year?

The date of posting couplets in 2023 is as follows:

1, off-year

Because many enterprises will have a holiday around the New Year, and most people will go back to their hometown to spend the Spring Festival with their parents, even though they have bought a house in the city, so that they will have a taste of the New Year. Therefore, the old Spring Festival couplets will be torn up and new ones will be put up the next morning. In this case, Spring Festival couplets can be posted in advance, but if you stay in the city for the New Year, it is recommended to post them on the morning of New Year's Eve.

2. Twenty-eight or twenty-nine of the twelfth lunar month

As the saying goes, twenty-eight, decals, and some folk songs are twenty-nine, exactly the same. Therefore, Spring Festival couplets are usually posted on the 28th or 29th of the twelfth lunar month.

3. New Year's Eve

Every year between 6 am on New Year's Eve and noon on 12, the old Spring Festival couplets will be torn up and thrown away. All good things will happen this year.

Traditional customs of couplets

As a custom, couplets are an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. The custom of couplets originated from the dual phenomenon of ancient Chinese in China, and the appearance of harmonious antithesis in the Western Jin Dynasty can be regarded as an important symbol of its formation. In the historical spread of 1700 years, traditional literary forms such as couplets, parallel prose and regular poems have influenced and borrowed from each other. After three important periods of development: the Northern Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the forms became increasingly diverse and the cultural accumulation gradually enriched.

Couplets include couplets, couplets and couplets. Since the Ming Dynasty, people have called them couplets. The custom of couplets is inherited and spread in Chinese-speaking areas and ethnic groups with cultural origins of Chinese characters, which is of great value to promoting Chinese culture.