New year's day, every family is decorated with lights. Many people even paste Spring Festival couplets at home. Spring Festival couplets symbolize people's yearning for a better life. What's the point of sticking Spring Festival couplets? Let's see when the couplet for the Chinese New Year in 2019 will be posted?
When will the couplet for the Chinese New Year in 2019 be pasted
When to paste the couplet for the Chinese New Year in 2019: in the afternoon of February 3, 2019 (December 29)
Generally, spring couplets are pasted from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. During the Spring Festival, couplets are pasted to express people's yearning for a better life in the new year, which is also one of the indispensable customs for the new year.
However, there are different customs and different time for pasting spring couplets. From the 23rd year of the twelfth lunar month (the youngest year) to the 30th year of the lunar new year, people continue to paste spring couplets. Generally speaking, the 28th and 29th of the twelfth lunar month are the time for the Spring Festival couplets to be pasted together.
How to paste the couplet for the new year:
A complete spring festival couplet, with two straight couplets and one horizontal scroll.
The direct couplet is divided into the upper couplet and the lower couplet. The ending words of the upper couplet are the upper voice and the de voice, which are pasted on the right side. The ending words of the lower couplet are the flat voice, which are pasted on the left side. The writing of the horizontal inscription is from right to left, and also from left to right according to the new regulations.
The number of words and the part of speech of the couplets should be the same. For example, the first couplet is "spring is rich and every year is good", and the second couplet is "good year is safe and step up". "New" and "good" are adjectives, while "rich" and "safe" are nouns. This kind of spring festival couplet is very neat to read.
Can couplets for Chinese New Year be pasted in advance
Sure.
Just after a small year, some people began to paste couplets. For example, businesses will post Spring Festival couplets in advance. On the one hand, they will cooperate with the approaching Spring Festival to create a festive atmosphere; on the other hand, they will seize business opportunities in advance to carry out marketing and publicity for themselves. One of the important reasons why Spring Festival couplets are posted in advance is that many merchants and citizens who need to go back to their hometown for the spring festival do not have time to post Spring Festival couplets on the eve of the lunar new year, so they will post them well before departure.