Between 6 am and noon on New Year's Eve 12, the old Spring Festival couplets are torn up and thrown away, and then new ones are put up, which means that everything will be fine this year. Spring Festival couplets are a kind of "couplets", but not all couplets can be regarded as Spring Festival couplets. Only those wishing and auspicious couplets posted during the Spring Festival can be called Spring Festival couplets. For example, when weddings, funerals and festivals are celebrated, folks also have the habit of posting couplets.
According to ancient records, Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao. At first, people carved human figures on mahogany and hung them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Later, it was simplified to engrave the door god's name on mahogany. Because mahogany is red, it finally evolved into writing on red paper, forming the present Spring Festival couplets.
Taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets
1, paste the Spring Festival couplets to go to the old and welcome the new.
The time to post Spring Festival couplets is before New Year's Eve, but by no means after New Year's Eve, thus losing the meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Tear up the original Spring Festival couplets when posting, which means to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Never put the old and new couplets on the door frame at the same time.
2. Don't paste Spring Festival couplets upside down.
When posting Spring Festival couplets, it is easier to post them upside down because of dialect pronunciation problems. The upside-down Spring Festival couplets sometimes change the original beautiful meaning.
Don't repeat the Spring Festival couplets.
Traditionally, the characters of Spring Festival couplets are generally not repeated. Here, it mainly refers to words in the same position, such as "enriching the people" in the upper part and "thriving business" in the lower part, in which the word "xing" appears repeatedly in the same position.