When is a good day to post couplets?
This time, the Spring Festival couplets are posted, and the old ones are torn off, which means good luck in the coming year. 6 am to noon on New Year's Eve 12 Post Spring Festival couplets. Tearing up the old Spring Festival couplets means that all good things will happen this year. There is no unified time for posting Spring Festival couplets. -Generally, the best time to post Spring Festival couplets is New Year's Eve, that is, February 1 1. However, during the Spring Festival, many people will go back to their hometown for the Spring Festival, and they will choose to post Spring Festival couplets around the following year.
Spring Festival couplets, also known as spring stickers, couplets and door couplets, are a unique literary form in China, an important symbol for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival, and a red festive element "Year Red" posted during the Spring Festival. It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes in neat, concise and exquisite words. When people put couplets and blessings on their doorsteps, it means the official start of the Spring Festival.
Related information:
There is no limit to the number of words in couplets, but they must be equal and the two sides should correspond. The "horizontal batch" in the middle is attached to the crossbar of the lintel. Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao (rectangular red boards were hung on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty). Another source of it is spring posting. At the beginning of spring, the ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and welcome good fortune.
The real popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in the Ming Dynasty, which was related to Zhu Yuanzhang's advocacy. At first, Spring Festival couplets were carved on mahogany boards, and later rewritten on paper. The color of mahogany is red, which means good luck and avoiding evil spirits, so most Spring Festival couplets are written in red paper. According to different local customs, the time for posting couplets during the New Year is slightly different. As the saying goes: "Twenty-eight, applique", and in some local folk songs, there is also a saying that "Twenty-nine, paste the unitary (meaning paste the Spring Festival couplets)".