The taboo and stress of pasting Spring Festival couplets will soon be the Spring Festival in 2019. Speaking of the Spring Festival, there are many traditional customs in China. One thing every family does before the Spring Festival every year must be pasting Spring Festival couplets. Putting up Spring Festival couplets before the Spring Festival is an important matter of good expectations for the new year and leaving the old to welcome the new year. But in Chinese tradition, it is also very particular about pasting Spring Festival couplets. How should Spring Festival couplets be pasted? The editor of this article will tell you about the taboos and rules of pasting Spring Festival couplets.
What are the taboos of pasting Spring Festival couplets? Pay attention to rules
When it comes to pasting Spring Festival couplets, Beijingers generally start pasting them after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, until the eve of the Lunar New Year and before eating dumplings. They can't paste them on the first day of the lunar new year. Old Beijing pays attention to it. After the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival couplets are not taken off casually, and the more firmly they are pasted, the better they can be kept for a year. When pasting the Spring Festival couplets before the Spring Festival next year, they should be pasted on the old Spring Festival couplets.
Now many people often paste couplets upside down. The correct format should be that when you face the door, the upper couplet is on the right and the lower couplet is on the left, because when Chinese characters are written vertically, they should be read from right to left. But the banners of Spring Festival couplets are written from left to right, which is also the result of contemporary reading rules.
If you buy Spring Festival couplets and confuse the upper and lower couplets, there is a simple way to distinguish them: according to the rules, the pronunciation of the last word of the upper couplet in Spring Festival couplets is Ze, that is, 3 or 4 tones; The last word of the next couplet is flat tone, that is, 1 or 2 tones.
Spring Festival couplets should emphasize personalization and write down their feelings, preferences, characteristics and expectations of their own family. For example, if there is a peach tree in one yard and a jujube tree in another yard, you can write these in the Spring Festival couplets. When writing Spring Festival couplets, we should also note that the words' Jue ',' death 'and' death 'should never appear, and homonyms should not appear.