When is the best time to post couplets?

If you put up couplets, you'd better use New Year's Eve. The 30th is New Year's Eve, and the12nd star-making day is a day other than the sun. It is best to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, bathe and baptize, pray to God and live and work in peace and contentment.

When pasting couplets, the first couplet is usually pasted on the right and the second couplet is pasted on the left. Because we used to write from right to left in ancient times, couplets should also be written from right to left.

Modern people write from left to right, so they often paste couplets from left to right. If you don't pay attention to this, it's easy to make some jokes.

When writing Spring Festival couplets, it is usually written in odd numbers. In geomantic omen, odd numbers belong to Yang and even numbers to Yin. Spring Festival couplets are generally based on red paper poplars, which adds joy.

The origin of Spring Festival couplets Every year on New Year's Eve (or February 9th), every household goes to the streets to buy Spring Festival couplets, and people who are interested will also spread paper and splash ink on spring festival couplets to decorate the doors inside and outside the house. Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, Spring Festival couplets and peach symbols.

It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. The real popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in the Ming Dynasty, which was related to Zhu Yuanzhang's advocacy. According to Chen Shanggu's Miscellaneous Notes on Maoyun Building in Qing Dynasty, one year when Zhu Yuanzhang was preparing for the New Year, he ordered every household to post a pair of Spring Festival couplets to celebrate.