Can I post Spring Festival couplets ten days in advance?
It's ok to post Spring Festival couplets in advance, and the customs in every place are different, but most areas are on the 29th and 30th of the twelfth lunar month, and people will post Spring Festival couplets one after another, so generally speaking, the 28th and 29th of the twelfth lunar month are the time to concentrate on posting Spring Festival couplets. In fact, it is also feasible to post couplets in advance, and there is not much pressure to post couplets.
When is the best time to post Spring Festival couplets? In ancient times, people posted couplets on the afternoon of the 29th and the morning of the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, which has continued to this day. Now, according to different local customs, the time for posting couplets for the New Year is slightly different.
As the saying goes: "Twenty-eight, applique", some local folk songs also have the saying "Twenty-nine, paste the couplet (meaning paste the Spring Festival couplets)", so couplets are usually posted on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month.
There is also a saying that Spring Festival couplets are posted on the morning of New Year's Eve, and the contents of Spring Festival couplets express people's good wishes for the new year. Spring Festival couplets will be burned after they are pasted. It is said that they can drive away Nian animals and bring good luck to the new year. Couplets can be posted from 28 to 30 these days.
What are the taboos of posting couplets? The situation appeared because it destroyed the geomantic function of the Spring Festival couplets themselves. Not only can't drive away evil spirits, but it will bring us disaster; Secondly, there is a fixed posting time for posting Spring Festival couplets, and good facilities should be selected; If you want to take down the couplets, you have to wait until the end of the year at the earliest. Usually it will be posted for a whole year.