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When will the couplets be posted before the Spring Festival?

When will the couplets be posted before the Spring Festival?

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.

The auspicious day of posting Spring Festival couplets refers to New Year's Eve. Spring Festival couplets are special characters during the Spring Festival. Their main function is to exorcise evil spirits and prosper family wealth. They are often posted on doorways, barns, cars, wells and other places to pray for a safe and smooth New Year.

It is precisely because of the unique meaning of Spring Festival couplets that we should pay attention to related taboos when posting Spring Festival couplets, especially the choice of auspicious days when posting Spring Festival couplets.

The origin of the development of couplets;

Couplets, also known as antithesis, antithesis, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, Taofu and couplets (named after the pillars hanging in halls and houses in ancient times), are a kind of dual literature, which originated from Taofu. Another source is the spring release. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

Couplets are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of Chinese, concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure.