1 afternoon, the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, 13 to 15, Spring Festival couplets are posted in this time period, which means that the coming year will be prosperous.
2. From 6 am to noon on New Year's Eve 12, tear up the old Spring Festival couplets, throw them away, and paste new ones, indicating that everything is going well this year.
First, the origin of Spring Festival couplets:
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.
Another source of Spring Festival couplets is thought to come from spring stickers. It is said that the popularity of Spring Festival couplets is related to Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered that every household should post a pair of Spring Festival couplets before the Spring Festival to celebrate and spread throughout the country.
Second, the taboo of posting Spring Festival couplets:
1, post Spring Festival couplets to welcome the new year.
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.
Spring Festival couplets are developed from poetry and pay attention to rhythm and elegance. Repetitive words are obviously not so beautiful to read, and they are not so beautiful to appreciate from the appearance.
4. "Wealth" and "happiness" can't be pasted randomly.
When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people will buy some words of "blessing" and "wealth" and post them at home. The ancients also paid attention to these two words.
For example, the word "wealth" will not be pasted upside down on rice vats and barn doors. The ancients thought that it would ruin fortune, and when the word "Fu" was posted on the door, it would not be posted backwards, indicating that it was a blessing.
Generally, only the open container is labeled with the word "Fu", which means that the blessing cannot be poured out, so don't let the blessing at home run away.