When can the Spring Festival couplets be torn off after the Spring Festival
4hw.com.cn: pasting Spring Festival couplets has been a traditional custom in China for thousands of years. Pasting Spring Festival couplets can be used to welcome spring, accept blessings and expel evil spirits. When can the Spring Festival couplets be torn off after the Spring Festival? Let's have a look.
When will the Spring Festival couplets be torn off:
It usually falls off naturally, or it can be completely torn off after 15 years.
Many people choose to paste Spring Festival couplets during the new year, but they are also particular. Spring Festival couplets are mainly to drive away monsters. In ancient times, many people chose to paste Spring Festival couplets to ward off evil spirits.
The festival said that the Spring Festival couplets, as one of the magic weapons to drive away the 'year beast', can be picked after the 'year' is over. According to different local folk customs, there are those who count the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the end of the new year, and those who count the end of the new year when the dragon looks up on the second day of February of the lunar calendar.
The Spring Festival couplets of the Spring Festival are a symbol and have no specific meaning. Generally, they can be torn off directly after the new year, but also for a good omen.
Natural shedding theory. The so-called natural falling off is to ignore the Spring Festival couplets after they are pasted, and let the Spring Festival couplets fall off naturally when they are hit by wind and rain. Or when you see that the Spring Festival couplets are worn out by wind and rain, you can take them off directly.
When will the old Spring Festival couplets be torn
Spring Festival couplets are usually picked near the end of the year, but only if they are well preserved.
But you can tear it up if you want, mainly because of etiquette. Generally, the original one is removed only when a new one is to be posted next year.
If it is damaged soon after the new year, there is still a way to repair it. Especially before the fifteenth day of the first month. Even if there is damage in the future, it is inevitable.
Spring Festival couplets symbolize a kind of celebration, and the difference is also great, but for most people, they are a custom. Only with Spring Festival couplets can they have the flavor of new year.
During the Spring Festival, every family in both urban and rural areas should choose beautiful red spring festival couplets and stick them on their doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere.
Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into spring couplets, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters, welcome good luck and accept good fortune.
This custom began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty.