What do they mean by cutting window grilles and writing couplets for the New Year?

First, the significance of cutting window grilles:

1, during the Spring Festival, people were in stick grilles, in order to decorate the environment and render the atmosphere, placing their hopes on saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

2. Cut the window grilles to express a kind of joy and happiness for people, things and things.

3. Express happiness and hope that the new year will be better.

Second, the significance of writing couplets:

1. When people stick couplets and blessings at the door, it means the official start of the Spring Festival. Spring Festival couplets are a unique literary form in China. They depict beautiful images and express good wishes with neat and concise words.

The Spring Festival couplets are for exorcising evil spirits, praying for happiness and symbolizing some beautiful things, such as a beautiful life and a prosperous country.

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As a custom, couplets are an important part of China traditional culture. In 2005, the custom of couplets was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in the State Council, China.

Pay attention to expanding data when writing couplets;

Couplets vary in length, only one or two words are short; It can be hundreds of words long. There are various forms of couplets, such as pairs, pairs, flowing pairs, couplets, set sentence pairs and so on. But no matter what kind of couplets are used, they must have the following characteristics:

Words should be equivalent and sentences should be consistent. In addition to deliberately leaving a place for a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be the same, neither more nor less.

To be even and harmonious, the timbre should be harmonious. The traditional habit is to "pucker up and fall flat", that is, the end of the last sentence of the first couplet is puckered up and the end of the last sentence of the second couplet is flat.

Parts of speech should be relative and in the same position. It is generally called "virtual to virtual, real to real", which means that nouns to nouns, verbs to verbs, adjectives to adjectives, quantifiers to quantifiers, adverbs to adverbs and related words must be in the same position.

Be content-related, from top to bottom. The meaning of up and down links must be interrelated, but they cannot be repeated.

In addition, the traditional practice of hanging couplets must be written straight and pasted vertically, from right to left and from top to bottom, and cannot be reversed.

The horizontal criticism closely related to couplets can be said to be the title and center of couplets. Good reviews can make the finishing point and complement each other in couplets.