According to the traditional customs of our country, every family will paste couplets to welcome the lunar new year. It seems like a small job to paste Spring Festival couplets. In fact, it's also very exquisite in operation. Do you know how to paste Spring Festival couplets best?
Related taboos of new year's couplets
1、 Time for Spring Festival couplets. Different places have different customs and the time of affixing Spring Festival couplets is also different. As the saying goes, 'twenty eight, paste flowers',' twenty-nine, paste down you '(meaning paste spring couplets), so spring couplets are generally pasted on the twenty eighth and twenty ninth of the twelfth lunar month.
2、 The location of Spring Festival couplets. When pasting Spring Festival couplets, be sure not to paste the upper and lower couplets in the opposite direction.
What's the point of pasting couplets in Spring Festival
Choose five elements to use God
First of all, we can choose different couplets according to different gods, so as to promote family and wealth. "If you like to use God as gold, you should use a couplet of five elements of gold, for example, four images for offering.". Like to use God as wood, it is advisable to use the word couplet of five elements of wood, for example: Sanyangkaitai. Like to use God as water, it is better to use the couplet of five elements of water, for example: Taiji Chengxiang. If you like to use God as fire, you should use the five elements of fire as a couplet, for example: two barbarians are lucky. If you like to use God as the earth, you should use the couplet of five elements that belong to the earth. For example, five blessings come to the door.
Attention to color selection
In ancient times, couplets originated from the ancient "Taofu". The ancient people used Taomu as the wood to ward off evil spirits. The ancient people pasted couplets to keep away evil spirits and keep peace. "Classic art" said: 'the peach is the essence of five wood, so the one who subdues evil spirit. 'because the color of mahogany is red, most of us choose red couplets to stick on the gate, which symbolizes auspiciousness and evil avoidance. However, there are three kinds of couplets: white, green and yellow. In ancient times, the old man died. The younger generation usually did not post red couplets for three years from that year. In the first year, white paper was used, in the second year, green paper was used, in the third year, yellow paper was used, and in the fourth year, red paper was used again when the funeral clothes were full. Therefore, the white green yellow couplets are commonly known as "filial piety couplets", "filial piety couplets" or "Ding you couplets".
Paste couplets at different positions
When facing the gate, the top couplet is on the right, the bottom couplet is on the left, and the text order of the banner is from right to left. In different places, the name is also different. For example: the door center is pasted on the center of the upper end of the door panel; the frame pair is pasted on the left and right door frames; the cross drape is pasted on the crossbar of the door panel; the spring strip is pasted on the corresponding place according to different contents; the bucket Jin is also called the door leaf, which is a square diamond shape, mostly pasted in furniture and screen wall
Related taboos of new year's couplets
1、 Time for Spring Festival couplets.
According to different customs, the time of affixing Spring Festival couplets is slightly different. As the saying goes: 'twenty eight, paste flowers'. In some local ballads, there are' twenty-nine, paste down you (meaning paste spring couplets) '. Spring couplets are usually pasted on the twenty eighth and twenty ninth of the twelfth lunar month, but most people are not very particular about it.
2、 Post of Spring Festival couplets.
Traditionally, the top couplet of Spring Festival couplets should be pasted on the right side (i.e. the left side of the door), the bottom couplet should be pasted on the left side (i.e. the right side of the door), and the horizontal batch should also be read from the right to the left. The upper and lower couplets cannot be pasted reversely. For example, 'the red plum is in bud and proud of winter and snow; the green willow is spitting catkins to welcome the new year'. From the content point of view, there is a progressive relationship between the upper and the lower couplets, so it's wrong to paste them in the opposite direction; from the perspective of the level, usually the ending words are three tone, four tone (i.e. the level tone) is the upper couplet, and the ending words are one tone, two tone (the level tone), and the lower couplet. For example, the last word of the couplet is "Snow" (the ancient rhyme of "Snow" is the tone), and the last word of the couplet is "spring". There are also very few couplets with flat ending and flat ending. In this case, we need to judge the couplets from the content of the Spring Festival couplets. Usually, there are causal, progressive or sequential relationships. Before posting, read the couplets carefully in combination with the horizontal approval to understand the content of the couplets.
It should be noted that since the vertical writing has been changed to horizontal writing, the reading habit of the original vertical writing from right to left has also been changed to left to right, so the spring couplets can also be linked up on the left and down on the right. However, it should be noted that the order of the horizontal batches should also be written and posted from left to right.
3、 The size of Spring Festival couplets.
In order to coordinate, it's better to paste 15-20cm wide spring couplets with a length of more than half of the door frame on the door of a resident's house, while it's better to paste about 20-30cm long spring couplets with a length of more than half of the door frame on the shop floor according to the width of the door, which seems to be harmonious and generous. As for the gate of some tall buildings, if spring couplets are pasted, the width of the couplets should not exceed 40 cm, and the length should also exceed half of the door frame.
Paste couplets carefully. According to the traditional paste method, if the content of the horizontal section is arranged from right to left, it is better to follow the traditional paste method, that is, paste the right side of the upper section and paste the left side of the lower section; but because of the modern habit, if the content of the horizontal section is arranged from left to right, then the upper section is on the left and the lower section is on the right.
How to paste couplets before Spring Festival
1、 Standard couplet method.
2、 Inverted couplet, what is inverted couplet? It means that yin and yang are reversed, meaning is reversed or character or antithetical couplet is inverted. This is a double couplet pasting method. It is big inside and small outside, with Yin and Yang reversed. It has many ideas, big goals, poor results and backfires.
3、 Inverted couplet 2, this is a couplet pasted upside down. It takes the meaning of homophony "to". The inverted paste of the word "Fu" means "Fu to". However, it's different if it's all in one handstand. The wise should not be unaware that the extremes of things are bound to backfire and good things can't all come.
4、 It's a good chicken wing duck wing shop in Beijing. It's hard for ordinary people to understand it if they don't pay close attention to it: 'if you don't eat a pair of wings of South gongs, you can come to Beijing for a journey with Hu in vain'. The wings are right, which means you're eating right. As a business shop, it's really a selling point because it's so ingenious. In addition, it's not good for business. What's the reason for this couplet's "all down" anti winning? The reason is that only every word here is written backwards, and it is still read from top to bottom. The rules and moments have not changed, but only the craftsmanship and selling points have changed. However, the shopkeeper did not know that the "right wing" sticker was not right, either "wrong eating" or "wrong eating". Therefore, the business of the shop is booming for a short time.
5、 Fold couplet, fold couplet, fold couplet, for crowded, busy, but small space, pressure, lazy children.
6、 Forced couplets and couplets that are not attached to the door frame are all squeezed into one door. The door is congenital, and the couplets are acquired. Adding an inverted frame in the door is a word "Hui". The word "Hui" means far away from the city. The character "Hui is less than one horizontal", which indicates that it is difficult to return. The owner often rushes and works hard outside, and there will be accidental casualties in serious cases. Besides, children don't want to stay at home.
7、 Double blessing couplet, one door pastes two blessings, not double blessings.
8、 Jian Lian, banner for the edge type, Jian Jiao Sha. The chief officer is not injured by accident.
9、 Official union, horizontal union, founder, left and right protection, stand tall.
10、 Hualian, the owner of the peach blossom Association, is also the official association. It is attached to the official association to cover the second wife and raise the third child.
11、 Collapse of the couplet is the feeling that the banner will fall from the middle. It's hard for a man to extend his ambition.
12、 Collapse couplet two, but there is a blessing in the middle, better than collapse couplet above.
13、 Empty couplet, paper-cut couplet is a very beautiful art, but as a spring couplet paste, the background color should not be blank, can be set off with yellow paper, forming a fire and earth is auspicious. Otherwise, they will lose their breath, lose their wealth, or become monks and nuns.
14、 The dragon and tiger alliance, which only sees left and right vertical couplets, has narrow banners, no distinction between primary and secondary, dragon fights and tiger fights, husband and wife discord, divorce, official non official affairs, accidents and difficulties in seeking wealth.
15、 All in one, all in one, all in one.