What is the traditional custom of posting Spring Festival couplets?

The traditional culture of pasting Spring Festival couplets entrusts people with hope for the future.

As a traditional culture and unique literary form in China, Spring Festival couplets have a history of 1000 years in China. It developed in the Tang and Song Dynasties, prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has been popular until now. Commonly known as "Opposite Door", it is a literary form with China characteristics, which originated from the "peach symbol" for exorcising ghosts and evil spirits.

The first Spring Festival couplets in history were born in Shu and Meng Yunling: Spring Festival, Jiaxu Festival, Changchun couplets, and then the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets gradually spread among the people.

As the saying goes, "A year's plan lies in spring." China people have pinned their hopes on the future since ancient times, hoping that the future will bring them good luck. Therefore, when the Spring Festival is coming, posting Spring Festival couplets is just a good choice to achieve this goal.

People use Spring Festival couplets to express their joy and happiness in the coming year, or to express their expectations and high hopes for the new year. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household in China is crowded with people, and every household is busy putting up Spring Festival couplets. After the Spring Festival couplets were posted, the Chinese New Year had the most vivid and lasting symbol.

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The content of the Spring Festival couplets is also particular: the door posted "Spring is full of kungfu"; "Changsheng Mountain Forever" is posted at the door of the elderly; The barn is labeled "Six Livestock Flourish". Spring Festival couplets combined with calligraphy can decorate the portal, and its red paper also shows the bustling atmosphere of the year. Not only pay attention to posting Spring Festival couplets, but also keep the number of words in the upper and lower couplets consistent, the language should be vivid and the semantics should not be repeated.

There are also some precautions when posting Spring Festival couplets: from the content, the upper couplet and the lower couplet are related, and it is wrong to post them upside down; Generally speaking, from the perspective of flat tones, the final word is three tones, four tones (flat tones) are the upper part, the final word is one tone, and two tones (flat tones) are the lower part.