As an indispensable part of the Spring Festival of the Chinese, since the Spring Festival is so good, it must not be casually pasted, and the Spring Festival is also a very "ritualistic" thing.
The people of the mainland are very strict in their traditional customs, and they like to choose good days and auspicious days to do things, and the Spring Festival is the "first of the hundred festivals" in the mainland, especially the Spring Festival couplets are very particular, remember the "three don'ts": don't paste the wrong time, don't paste the wrong time, don't paste the double number, etc.
According to the custom, the Spring Festival couplets are not just pasted casually, there are many taboos and exquisiteness, and we must keep these 5 points in mind.
First: the order of pasting the couplets
The older generation often says that the Spring Festival couplets should be pasted from the outside to the inside, implying good luck and blessings in the new year, which will flow into the home and bring a good life to the new year.
According to the ancient rules of the right for the couplet, the left for the lower link, now the order of the spring couplets should be determined according to the direction of the horizontal batch, the order of the reading of the horizontal batch is from left to right, that is, the left is the upper link, the right is the lower link, if the order of the horizontal batch reading is from right to left, that is, the right is the upper link, and the left is the lower link.
Second: the time to paste the Spring Festival couplets
Due to the different customs and customs in various places, the time of pasting the Spring Festival couplets may not be the same, some places have the custom of sticking the Spring Festival couplets in the beginning of the Spring Festival, some areas began to paste the Spring Festival couplets after the small year, and some areas to the twenty-eighth, twenty-nine Spring Festival couplets, and now the most is to paste the Spring Festival couplets on the day of the New Year.
No matter when to paste the Spring Festival couplets, the time of the paste is very important, do not paste the Spring Festival couplets in the afternoon, paste the Spring Festival couplets to choose the most prosperous time of the day, between 8 o'clock and 12 o'clock in the morning, paste the Spring Festival couplets between 8 o'clock and 12 o'clock in the morning, and tear off the old Spring Festival couplets of last year, implying the removal of the old cloth and the new, praying for auspicious happiness in the new year.
Third: Filial piety for 3 years can not be pasted red Spring Festival couplets
According to custom, there are old people in the family who have died, children can not paste red Spring Festival couplets within 3 years of filial piety, red represents festivity, it is not appropriate to paste red Spring Festival couplets during filial piety, and it is not appropriate to paste the Spring Festival couplets with black characters on a white background, because it is not possible to buy the Spring Festival couplets with black characters on a white background now, so you can not paste the Spring Festival couplets during the three-year filial piety period, and at the end of the three-year period, you can paste the red Spring Festival couplets again.
Fourth: whether the word is pasted forward or upside down
The word Fu represents the blessing, is the New Year's family to be pasted, some people like to paste the word Fu upside down, meaning the arrival of blessing, some people like to be pasted, welcome the blessing into the door, according to ancient customs, the door should be pasted with the word Fu, so that the blessing can enter the door, in the indoor paste Fu word can be upside down, implying the meaning of the blessing to the home.
Fifth: Don't fix the couplets with nails
When we are pasting the Spring Festival couplets, don't fix the Spring Festival couplets with nails or the like for convenience, which not only affects the appearance, but also the key is unlucky, like the past pasting the Spring Festival couplets to boil paste, you can add water with white noodles, boil sticky with a pot, and paste the Spring Festival couplets, which is easy to use and beautiful.
How to distinguish the upper and lower couplets of the Spring Festival couplets, hidden in the Spring Festival couplets
"Little Secret"
When I was a child, when I saw the Spring Festival couplets posted on the doors of every house, I was very puzzled, how did I read it?
Some read it from right to left, and some seem to read it more smoothly from left to right.
In fact, the upper and lower couplets of the Spring Festival couplets are distinguished by sentences and tones, rather than the position of posting.
According to the difference between Ping, the ending word of the couplet is "仄", which is the upper link, and the ending word of the couplet is the "Ping" phonetic word is the lower link.
To put it simply, according to the pronunciation of Mandarin, the last word of the Spring Festival couplets is "three tones" or "four tones" is the upper link, and if it is "one tone" or "two tones", it is the lower link.
Chinese poetry, architecture and other cultural content all embody the "beauty of symmetry", and the couplets are also neat, catchy and rhythmic to read.
For example: the end of the day, the end of the day, four tones, the first sentence, the Yellow River flows into the sea, the flow, the second tone, the second sentence.
In the same way: Fu is like the long flowing water of the East China Sea, water, three sounds, uplink, Shoubi Nanshan is not old pine, loose, one, downlink.
According to this rule, it is easy to easily distinguish the upper and lower links in the Spring Festival couplets, and then look at the direction of the words and sentences in the horizontal batch in combination with the position of the posting, and you can also judge whether the Spring Festival couplets of this house are pasted correctly, isn't it interesting?
This year, when the Spring Festival couplets were pasted, it was found that there were two: the first
February 8, 2024 (29 February) between 1 am and 3 pm, and the second, February 9, 2024 (Chinese New Year's Eve) between 6 am and 12 noon.
It is said that these two points in time to post the Spring Festival couplets, which can highlight the beautiful meaning, in addition to the cloth to welcome the new year, good luck in the Year of the Dragon!