It's a traditional custom of our country to paste couplets during the Spring Festival. With the auspicious words on the couplets, we can get blessings. When can we tear up the couplets after the Spring Festival? What are the taboos and stresses on tearing them?
When does the spring festival couplet tear up
Generally, it falls off naturally, or it can be completely torn off after 15 years.
Many people will choose to paste Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival, but they also pay attention to them. Spring Festival couplets are mainly to drive away monsters. In ancient times, many people would choose to paste Spring Festival couplets to ward off evil spirits.
It is said that Spring Festival couplets, as one of the magic weapons to drive away the 'new year beast', can be picked after the 'New Year' is over. According to the different folk customs of different places, there are Chinese New Year's Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and there are Chinese New Year's Lantern Festival on the 2nd of the second lunar month.
The spring festival couplet is a symbol that has no specific meaning. It can be torn up directly after the end of the year, which is also a good omen.
Natural fall off said. The so-called natural fall off is to stick on the Spring Festival couplets, regardless of whether, let the Spring Festival couplets by wind and rain, natural fall off. Or see the Spring Festival couplets by the wind and rain after the dilapidated, directly remove.
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 it's OK to tear it off. It's mainly about etiquette. Generally, it's the next year that we have to post new ones before we take them down.
If the new year's Day is not long past, there is still a way to mend it. Especially before the 15th day of the first month. There will be damage in the future, even if it is, it will be hard to avoid wind and rain.
Spring Festival couplets symbolize a kind of celebration, and the difference is also great, but for most people, it is a custom, with Spring Festival couplets will have the flavor of new year.
Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family should choose beautiful red couplets to paste on the door, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to increase the festive atmosphere.
Another source of spring couplets is spring couplets. The ancients often pasted the word "Yichun" on the first day of spring, and then gradually developed it into spring couplets, expressing the Chinese working people's good wishes to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and to welcome the good fortune.
This custom began in Song Dynasty and became popular in Ming Dynasty.