The torn wind and water of Spring Festival couplets
Even many people will spend money to buy some Spring Festival couplets written by calligraphy masters to decorate the facade. But there is a saying in Feng Shui that it is unlucky to tear up couplets on your own initiative. In our Spring Festival, we not only decorate with lanterns, but also post blessings and Spring Festival couplets.
Spring Festival couplets have a long history in China. We put up Spring Festival couplets to welcome the Spring Festival, hoping that the coming year will be smooth sailing and rich in financial resources. It's not unlucky to tear up Spring Festival couplets, because every family will put up new couplets during the Chinese New Year.
Tearing couplets is a sign of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, so people have no scruples about tearing couplets.
The saying of tearing Spring Festival couplets is that anything you choose can be discarded as long as it doesn't meet your wishes, so you have no scruples about tearing Spring Festival couplets, but according to the folk saying, you can't tear Spring Festival couplets before the Spring Festival is over.
Generally, after the couplets are pasted, they will not be torn. If you tear it up, you have to wait until the fifteenth day of the first month, or when you put up new Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve next year. Couplets add a festive atmosphere. There is not so much need to exist after the holiday.
There are other ways to deal with couplets: let the old couplets stick on the wall for a whole year, and repair them if they are damaged; Tear couplets within the specified time; When the couplets naturally break or fall off, take down the old couplets directly.