the Spring Festival in 2020 will be in a few days. Before the new year, every household will stick couplets, which is our long-standing Spring Festival custom. So when will the couplets be posted during the Spring Festival? What is the stress of pasting couplets? This article brings you the time and stress of pasting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. Let's have a look.
The best time to paste couplets during the Spring Festival is from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve (December 30). Pasting couplets during the Spring Festival expresses people's longing for a better life in the new year, which is also one of the indispensable customs of the new year.
It is a traditional custom in China to stick Spring Festival couplets during the new year. According to different customs, the time for pasting Spring Festival couplets varies. From the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month (the Lunar New Year) to the 30th of the lunar new year, people paste Spring Festival couplets one after another. Generally speaking, the 28th and 29th of the twelfth lunar month is the time for pasting spring Festival couplets.
A complete spring festival couplet, with two direct couplets and a horizontal scroll. The direct couplet is divided into the upper couplet and the lower couplet. The last words of the upper couplet are shangsheng and Qusheng, which are pasted on the right, and the last words of the lower couplet are flat, which are pasted on the left. The horizontal inscription is written from right to left, or from left to right according to the new regulations. The upper and lower couplets of Spring Festival couplets should have the same number of words and the same part of speech. For example, the upper couplet is' prosperity and honor in the new year 'and the lower couplet is' good years and peace go up step by step' New 'and' good 'are adjectives,' wealth 'and' Peace 'are nouns. Such couplets are neat to read.
What's special about Chinese New Year couplets
1. The singular is the most auspicious
When pasting Spring Festival couplets at the gate, remember to paste the singular, which symbolizes auspiciousness. In addition, don't paste the word "spring" at the door of your home. You can paste blessings and attract wealth and treasure, because in ancient times, only Yihong hospital would paste the word "spring" at the door.
2. Distinguish between left and right
When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people often paste the upper and lower couplets in the wrong position. The Spring Festival couplets have two direct couplets, and the last word of each piece has flat, up, go and enter sounds. The correct pasting method is: flat sound (the first and second tones of the national phonetic alphabet) is on the left, while shangsheng, go sound (the third and fourth tones of the national phonetic alphabet) and enter sound are on the right. The discrimination method of entering sound words is to pronounce in Minnan language, which is short and heavy. Therefore, if the last word in both pictures is the first and second tone, you must read it in Taiwanese to see if it is the entering tone word.
3. Time is fastidious
I don't know if you have heard of '24, write big characters'. This is a folk proverb that has been circulating for a century. It means that you can write Spring Festival couplets after the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, but when to paste Spring Festival couplets is also particular. In fact, we should choose a good time to paste Spring Festival couplets. The time from afternoon to evening on New Year's Eve is the best. On New Year's Eve, the ancients had a grand sacrificial ceremony. In fact, pasting Spring Festival couplets was also one of the procedures. Because after new year's Eve, everything is updated, so it is best to paste Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve. The best time to paste Spring Festival couplets is between 6 a.m. and 12 noon on New Year's Eve. Tear the old Spring Festival couplets to show that the new year is old and new, and bad luck is broken. Or according to local customs, it is best when the Yang is at its peak in the morning (7-9 a.m.).
4. Inverted learning
For example, money comes upside down, which means money comes. According to the ancient rites, it is synonymous with money, so money comes over, which means to pour all the money. From the perspective of folklore, in ancient times, "pour blessing" was only pasted on water tanks, wine tanks and other tanks for storing things, implying that blessing could not be poured out to express the wish of fullness. Like the door of the home or public place, the word "blessing" cannot be pasted upside down, otherwise it will pour out the blessing.