When is the right time to post couplets?

There is no unified time for posting Spring Festival couplets. Generally, the auspicious day for posting Spring Festival couplets is New Year's Eve.

Post Spring Festival couplets on the afternoon of the 29th 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. 6 am to noon on New Year's Eve 12 Post Spring Festival couplets. 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 auspicious day for posting Spring Festival couplets is New Year's Eve. 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.

Sticking couplets is very particular. When facing the gate, the upper part is on the right, the lower part is on the left, and the order of the banners is from right to left. In different places, names are different. For example, the door core is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is posted on the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Doujin", also known as "door leaf", is a square diamond that is often attached to furniture.

The origin of development:

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.

Parallel prose and rhyme are two direct sources of couplets. In the process of its own development, couplets have absorbed the characteristics of ancient poems, essays, lyrics and songs. Therefore, the sentence patterns used in couplets include ancient poems, prose sentences and parody sentences in addition to regular poems and parallel prose sentences. Different sentence patterns have different metrical patterns and different leniency. Among them, the sentence pattern of rhythmic poetry is the most strict, while the sentence pattern of ancient verse has no restrictions except at the end of the sentence.