Why are some people yellow or green when posting Spring Festival couplets?

Spring Festival couplets are also called couplets or peach symbols. This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and has been widely circulated in the Ming Dynasty. According to traditional customs, posting Spring Festival couplets is a way to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Under normal circumstances, the Spring Festival couplets we see are all red, which symbolizes happiness and can ward off evil spirits, so the Spring Festival couplets at home are generally red. But sometimes we will see people paste Spring Festival couplets with yellow or green. What is the reason?

First, the yellow Spring Festival couplets represent the first anniversary mourning.

Generally speaking, Spring Festival couplets are all red, so when we see yellow Spring Festival couplets, we should also understand what is wrong with this family. Often someone in a family died in this year, and such a sad thing happened, and this year happened to be the Spring Festival. So this new year is before the first anniversary. At this time, if your family wants to contact you, you must paste yellow, which can not only show the mood of the festival, but also express the grief for the deceased.

Second, the Green Spring Festival couplets represent mourning within three years after the first anniversary.

There is a traditional custom in China, that is, for a deceased person, there will be not only a first anniversary, but also a third anniversary. These two days are very important. So if people want to experience a new year after the first anniversary of their death, but before the third anniversary, if they want to post couplets at this time, they must fill in green couplets, which is a custom.

Third, some don't stick couplets.

Although it has been said that every household should post Spring Festival couplets to show respect for the New Year, it is also true that some families are still in pain because of the loss of their loved ones, so in this case, some families will choose not to post Spring Festival couplets within the third anniversary. So if you see a family that doesn't post couplets during the Spring Festival, there are also people who have died in this family.