Do you pay attention to the time of posting couplets?

Generally, couplets are posted on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. If the date is not on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, it is usually posted on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. In some areas, it is very important to paste couplets in the morning, while in some areas, it is very important to paste couplets in the afternoon, which depends on local customs.

We have already ushered in the Spring Festival, and posting Spring Festival couplets is a way for every household to celebrate.

On New Year's Eve, in addition to posting couplets, every household will also post blessings, door gods, window grilles and so on. If the horizontal couplet is written from right to left, the first couplet should be posted on the right and the second couplet on the left.

Couplets, also known as couplets, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, etc. It is a antithetical sentence written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns, and it is a unique art form of Chinese.

Couplets can be divided into general couplets, special couplets, Spring Festival couplets, greeting couplets, elegiac couplets, gift couplets, self-encouragement couplets, industry couplets, and speech couplets. According to the number of words, they can be divided into short couplet, couplet and long couplet.

What are the taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets?

1, the left and right couplets are wrongly pasted.

When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people often misplace the upper and lower couplets. There are two pairs of Spring Festival couplets, and the last word of each pair has the rhyme of ping, Shang, Qu and Ru.

The correct pasting method is: the flat sound (the first and second Chinese phonetic notation) is on the left; On the right are the rising tone, falling tone (the third and fourth tones of Chinese phonetic notation) and entering tone.

Among them, the distinguishing method of entering tone characters is to pronounce them in Minnan dialect, and the short and heavy ones are. Therefore, if the last words in the two pictures are both up and down, you must read them to see if they enter the tone.

2. Spring Festival couplets are learned.

For example, posting money backwards means that the money has arrived. According to ancient rituals, it is synonymous with money, so posting money backwards means that money has been emptied.

In terms of folklore, in ancient times, only the words "pour the blessing" were affixed to storage tanks such as water tanks and wine tanks, which meant that the blessing could not be poured out, expressing a wish full of happiness. Just like the door at home or in a public place, you can't post the word "Fu" upside down, otherwise all the blessings will be posted upside down.

3. The singular is lucky.

Stick Spring Festival couplets at the gate, remember to stick odd numbers, because odd numbers symbolize auspiciousness.

In addition, don't simply post the word "spring" at the door, because in ancient times, only Qihong Institute would post the word "spring" at the door.