Spring Festival couplets are posted on the left and right.

Spring Festival couplets are posted on the right hand side facing the gate.

Then stick the upper couplet on the right side of the door frame and the lower couplet on the left side of the door frame. This is the old-fashioned paste method of Spring Festival couplets, which embodies the characteristics of ancient running script from right to left. At present, the mainstream posting method is that the upper part is posted on the left side of the gate and the lower part is posted on the right side. This is a new kind of Spring Festival couplets, which conforms to the characteristics of modern running script, from left to right.

The most correct way to paste the upper and lower couplets of Spring Festival couplets is mainly to look at the direction of horizontal batch. If the horizontal batch is read from left to right, the first couplet is on the left by default, and the upper couplet is pasted on the left, and vice versa.

Sticking couplets should start from the position advocated in ancient times. In ancient China, "Left" was dominant, so the first couplet should be on the "Left" side. The left side here refers to the position of the couplet when the back is facing the door.

The time for posting Spring Festival couplets is very important:

There is no unified time for posting Spring Festival couplets. Generally, the auspicious day for posting Spring Festival couplets is New Year's Eve, which is 202 1 February 1 1. However, because many people will go back to their hometown for the Spring Festival, they will choose to post Spring Festival couplets around the following year. The best time to post Spring Festival couplets is as follows:

Put up Spring Festival couplets on 1 and the 29th afternoon of the twelfth lunar month (13 to 15). This time, the Spring Festival couplets are posted, and the old ones are torn off, which means good luck in the coming year.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets between 6 am and noon 12 on New Year's Eve. Tearing up the old Spring Festival couplets means that all good things will happen this year.