When is the best time to post couplets?

The best time to post Spring Festival couplets is on New Year's Eve, the 28th, 29th and 30th of the twelfth lunar month.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month 1, 13 to 1 post Spring Festival couplets. Putting up Spring Festival couplets at this time and tearing them off the next day means that the coming year will be prosperous.

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.

There is no unified time for posting Spring Festival couplets. Generally, the best time to post Spring Festival couplets is New Year's Eve, 2021February 1 1. But because many people will go back to their hometown for the Spring Festival, they will choose to post Spring Festival couplets before and after the Spring Festival.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important folk culture in China, and the old tradition cannot be forgotten.

Every family always trades new peaches for old ones. The earliest prototype of Spring Festival couplets is "Fu Tao", which is made of peach wood (which can dispel filth and ward off evil spirits). The color of mahogany is red, which means to ward off evil spirits and good luck. It is six inches long and three inches wide, with spring words or prayers written on it, hanging on both sides of the gate, which means blessing and good luck.

It is said that Meng Changjun, the monarch of Shu after the Five Dynasties, had a whim on New Year's Eve in 964, and asked the bachelor to write two sentences on the mahogany: "When the New Year comes, enjoy the legacy of the previous generation. In the new year, spring is always there. This is China's first Spring Festival couplets.

In the Song Dynasty, the peach symbol was changed from mahogany board to paper, which was called "Spring Sticker". In the Ming Dynasty, "Spring Festival couplets" was officially renamed as "Spring Festival couplets", so the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang loved couplets in the Ming Dynasty. He once ordered: "A public official and a scholar need a picture of Spring Festival couplets on the door", which promoted the popularity of Spring Festival couplets among the people.