Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - When posting a couplet should the width of the characters on both sides be lower than the crossword,? How to stick them in accordance with the traditional Chinese posting method?

When posting a couplet should the width of the characters on both sides be lower than the crossword,? How to stick them in accordance with the traditional Chinese posting method?

Certainly the characters on both sides should be lower than the banner

The traditional method of posting the Spring Festival couplets is that when facing the door, the upper couplet is on the right, the lower couplet is on the left, and the order of the characters on the banner is from right to left. The other is a common method of posting. After liberation due to the horizontal writing format changed from left to right, the spring couplets can also be on the left, the next couplet on the right, the order of the horizontal forehead is also from left to right, suitable for people's reading habits. If the two Spring Festival sticker "mixed use", it is not very civilized.

Chinese New Year's couplets are a new style of writing derived from ancient Chinese parallelism, and a literary form that draws on the tradition of Chinese poetry. It is different from the ancient ekphrasis and poetry, and is a unique form of independent literary style. Though the couplets in the poems or parallel texts are often excellent couplets, they can be called couplets only when they exist independently from the poems or parallel texts. Its most notable feature is the form of pairs of pairs, two couplets each other "right", the content of each other, closely linked. A couplet of the first and second couplet, must be structurally complete and unified, the language is clear and concise.