When will the Spring Festival couplets be hung?

The time for hanging Spring Festival couplets is as follows:

According to different local customs, the time for posting couplets during the New Year is slightly different. As the saying goes: "Twenty-eight, applique", some local folk songs also have the saying "Twenty-nine, paste the couplet (meaning paste the Spring Festival couplets)", so couplets are usually posted on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month.

There is also a saying that Spring Festival couplets are posted on the morning of New Year's Eve, and the contents of Spring Festival couplets express people's good wishes for the new year. Spring Festival couplets will be burned after they are pasted. It is said that they can drive away Nian animals and bring good luck to the new year.

Nowadays, most people are not very particular about it, and the time for posting couplets is becoming more and more casual. In fact, you can paste couplets at any time, which means good luck.

Traditionally, the first couplet of Spring Festival couplets should be posted on the right hand side (that is, the left side of the door), and the second couplet should be posted on the left hand side (that is, the right side of the door), and the horizontal batch is also read from right to left. Upper and lower couplets cannot be posted backwards. How to judge the upper and lower couplets of Spring Festival couplets: The police said, "Red plums contain proud winter snow, and green willows spit catkins to welcome the new year."

From the content point of view, the upper part and the lower part are progressive in sequence, and it is wrong to paste backwards; It can also be judged by the level of the last word. Usually three tones and four tones (that is, human voice) are the upper part, and the last words are monosyllabic and disyllabic (flat voice), which are the lower part; In addition, Spring Festival couplets usually have a causal, progressive or sequential relationship. Read the couplets carefully before posting, and understand the contents of the couplets.

Note: As vertical writing is changed to horizontal writing, the reading habit of vertical writing from right to left is also changed to left to right, so Spring Festival couplets can also be left and right. However, it should be noted that the horizontal batch order should also be written and posted from left to right accordingly.