Are you particular about when to post couplets?

The time to post Spring Festival couplets is from 6 am to noon 12 on the day before the first day of the first month. First the gate, then the gate, first the left and then the right, and then the banner is hung, which means welcoming spring and receiving blessings. Spring Festival couplets should be changed once a year. It is said that there is a new atmosphere and new couplets every year. When the new year comes, the old couplets have lost their meaning.

The time for posting couplets is particular, usually on the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month. If the date is not on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, it is usually posted on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. Some areas pay attention to posting in the morning, while others pay attention to posting in the afternoon, which depends on local customs.

Basic information of posting couplets:

On New Year's Eve, in addition to putting up couplets, every household will also put up blessings, door gods, window grilles and so on. If the horizontal couplet is written from right to left, the first couplet should be posted on the right and the second couplet on the left. Couplets are also called antithetical couplets, Spring Festival couplets and couplets.

It is a antithetical sentence written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and pillars, and it is a unique artistic form of Chinese. Couplets can be divided into general couplets, special couplets, Spring Festival couplets, greeting couplets, elegiac couplets, gift couplets, self-encouragement couplets, industry couplets, and speech couplets. According to the number of words, they can be divided into short couplet, couplet and long couplet.