Are you particular about when to post couplets?

The time for posting couplets is particular. Generally, couplets are posted on the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month. If the date is not the thirtieth of the twelfth lunar month, it is generally posted on the twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month. In some areas, it is very important to paste couplets in the morning, and in some areas, it is very important to paste couplets in the afternoon, depending on local customs.

We have already ushered in the Spring Festival, and posting Spring Festival couplets is a way for every family to celebrate. On New Year's Eve, in addition to putting up couplets, every household will also put up blessings, door gods, window grilles and so on. If the couplet is written from right to left, the first couplet is posted on the right and the second couplet is posted on the left.

Couplets, also known as couplets, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, etc. , a antithetical sentence written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns, is a unique artistic form of Chinese. Couplets can be divided into general couplets, special couplets, Spring Festival couplets, greeting couplets, elegiac couplets, gift couplets, self-encouragement couplets, industry couplets, speech couplets and so on. According to the number of words, it can be divided into short couplet, couplet and long couplet.

Taboos for posting couplets

1, the left and right couplets are wrongly pasted.

When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people often misplace the upper and lower couplets. There are two couplets in the Spring Festival couplets, and the last word of each pair has the rhyme of Ping, Shang, Qu and Ru.

The correct pasting method is: the flat tone (the first and second tones of Chinese phonetic notation) is on the left, and the rising tone, falling tone (the third and fourth tones of Chinese phonetic notation) and entering tone are on the right.

Among them, the distinguishing method of entering tone characters is to pronounce them in Minnan dialect, and the short and heavy ones are. Therefore, if the last words in the two pictures are both up and down, be sure to see if they are entering the tone.

2. Spring Festival couplets are learned.

For example, posting money backwards means that the money has arrived. According to ancient rituals, it is synonymous with money, so posting money backwards means that money has been hollowed out.

According to folklore, in ancient times, blessings were only posted on jars containing things, such as water jars and wine jars, which meant that blessings could not be poured out and expressed the desire to eat. Like the door at home or in public places, you can't paste the word "Fu" upside down, otherwise it will pour it out.