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Why don't some people put up Spring Festival couplets?

The Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals for the Chinese people, so on the day of the Spring Festival, everyone will clean up their homes very well, and refresh the hills and mountains inside their homes as well as themselves from head to toe. On the day of the Spring Festival, almost every family will put up big red spring scrolls or door gods, which is also a tradition of the Chinese people and signifies good luck and good fortune, and there will be a lot of auspicious words written on the spring scrolls to show people's expectations for the new year. However, in rural areas, some families don't put up couplets on New Year's Eve because there may be no one living here anymore or the family has had a funeral during the year, so it's not appropriate to put them up.

Rural people are actually very particular about these things of festivals, and if the family allows it, they will surely put up spring couplets on New Year's Day, but if they don't, they surely have their own reasons. Most families in rural areas do not put up spring scrolls on the day of the Spring Festival, probably because there are red and white events in the family. For example, if an old man dies within the last three years, these three years are all filial period, a lot of things can not be done, for example, in the first year is not allowed to paste the Spring Festival, can not let others to pay tribute to the New Year, to the back of the two years is allowed to paste the Spring Festival, but the color of the Spring Festival is not the big red, it must be a blue background, or yellow and purple, and wait for three years until the deadline is over to paste the red one.

The house in the countryside did not stick the spring scrolls, another reason is that the house has been inhabited, because now more and more people go out to work, most of the rural population have flowed to the city, so a lot of rural people have begun to settle in the city. These people are basically in the city on New Year's Day, and rarely go back to the countryside, and even if they do, they just go to visit their relatives, so there is no one to come over to put up the Spring Festival couplets.

Because all over the country after New Year's Eve there is the custom of New Year's Eve, so in the New Year's Eve should also have an eye to see, if you find yourself to go to the New Year's Eve, the family did not paste the Spring Festival, then do not go in, or else you may eat a closed door.