Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival?

Introduction: Sticking Spring Festival couplets is one of the customs of the Spring Festival. I don't know when this custom came into being, but it is necessary to paste Spring Festival couplets every year to have the atmosphere of the Spring Festival. If you want to know why Spring Festival couplets should be posted and what is important about Spring Festival couplets, you can come and see my introduction.

Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival?

At the beginning, people carved the names of gods on mahogany and put them at the door, thinking that this could exorcise ghosts and evil spirits. Later, it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets and became a custom to increase the festive atmosphere during the Spring Festival.

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "couplets" and "door couplets", are neat and concise, and are generally popular greetings for people to express their good wishes for the new year.

During the Zhou Dynasty, people would put two rectangular red boards on both sides of the gate, which was the embryonic form of Spring Festival couplets. According to records: "On the first day of the first month, peaches are made and fairy trees are famous, and all ghosts are afraid of them." The Spring Festival couplets at this time are called "Fu Tao". Legend has it that there is a golden rooster in the ghost world. Every morning when the rooster crows, ghosts wandering around the world will return to the ghost world. The guards of the ghost world are Shen Tu and Lei Yu. They will check whether each ghost has done something bad. Ghosts who do bad things will be fed to tigers, so ghosts are afraid of them. People on earth write their names on mahogany and put them at the door to ward off evil spirits and seek peace.

Later, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, people in the court began to write couplets on peach symbols. In the Song Dynasty, peach characters changed from wooden boards to paper, and began to be called "Spring Festival couplets" and "Spring stickers". Since then, the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets has prevailed, and the content of Spring Festival couplets has been constantly enriched.

Modern Spring Festival couplets are already a necessary procedure for us to celebrate the New Year. Watching every household put red Spring Festival couplets on their doors will make the whole space bright with them. The festive atmosphere of the new year has been mobilized, and it has the flavor of the new year.

Pay attention to Spring Festival couplets.

There are still many places to pay attention to about Spring Festival couplets. It is said that mahogany is red, which can ward off evil spirits and symbolize good luck, so all the Spring Festival couplets later were written in red paper. In addition, Spring Festival couplets also pay attention to some things, such as the heart of the door, the frame, Spring Festival couplets, squares and so on. It is a great progress than the original peach character. It is no longer simply painting portraits on peach symbols, but expressing good wishes for the coming year on paper.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also very particular. If you don't stick to them properly, you will be laughed at. The traditional way to paste Spring Festival couplets is that when facing the gate, the upper couplet is on the right, the lower couplet is on the left, and the order of banners is from right to left. The other is the commonly used paste method. After liberation, because the horizontal writing format was changed from left to right, Spring Festival couplets can also be hung left and right, and the order of banners is also from left to right, which is suitable for people's reading habits. It is not civilized to "mix" two Spring Festival couplets together.

Sticking method of Spring Festival couplets

Many people on the Internet think that Spring Festival couplets must end with a flat top. This statement is actually like saying that women must have long hair. The creation of Spring Festival couplets is the same as that of other styles. We should also talk about logic, context, layout and order. Plain weave, like a tie, is only decorative for Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets, if suffixes are used to distinguish upper and lower couplets, there are.

First, ups and downs, such as Spring Festival couplets, "Everything goes well and every year is good." Only by grasping the context can we distinguish the upper and lower couplets.

Second, mutually assured destruction, such as the Spring Festival couplets, "Ma Ye is on the shore, what is the green palm?" Lotus pond, who punches the red fist ",know the word order to distinguish the upper and lower couplets.

Third, at the end of the Spring Festival couplets, "Sister, I think, brother, you are wrong." Only by understanding the logical relationship of couplets can we distinguish the upper and lower couplets.

Four, Spring Festival couplets "The motherland is magnificent, and the scenery in China is new" is a couplet that ends with the upper and lower parts, but this kind of couplet can't distinguish the upper and lower parts.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets to find the relationship between Spring Festival couplets and banners (horizontal approval).

Spring Festival couplets myth

In the ancient mythology of China, it is said that there is a ghost world, in which there is a mountain, a big peach tree covering three thousand miles, and a golden rooster at the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night must return to the ghost domain. The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Taoshu District, and there are two gods standing by the door, namely shentu and Lei Yu. If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shencha and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it with a rope made of Miscanthus, and give it to the tiger. So ghosts all over the world are afraid of tea and stagnation. So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shencha and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. They also write couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and auspiciousness, and stick them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.