This pair of couplets was created by Meng Changjun, the monarch of Shu after the Five Dynasties. When he celebrated the Spring Festival, he would create his own "New Year's Day is celebrated; Jiajie Changchun "is posted at the door. Thus, China's first couplet was born.
Prior to this, during the Spring Festival, people "always exchanged new peaches for old ones", just hanging peach trees to show good luck and celebration at the door. Of course, there are also masters who stick to the portal-the earliest master should be Zhong Kui, followed by Shen Tu and Lei Yu, then Qin Qiong and Jingdezhen, and some even adopted the second of the "Four Kings". The so-called Spring Festival couplets posted by Wang Xizhi were repeatedly exposed because of their beautiful calligraphy and elegant content. On the evening of the 30th, they were forced to post "Happiness cannot be divided into two". It never rains but it pours. Three words were added on the morning of New Year's Day: "It never rains but it pours; The legend of double whammy last night was finally posted, which is purely a postscript.
The couplets have been greatly developed and popularized, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of Daming, contributed a lot. According to legend, on the first Spring Festival after he ascended the throne, he asked the whole country to post couplets to show his joy. Years ago, when I visited incognito privately, I also left a saying among the people, "Split the road of life and death with both hands"; Cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife. ""Cones and cones make poor people; Lala Lala into the God of Wealth and other beautiful associations.
Since then, couplets have blossomed on a large scale and become a treasure of China.
Couplets are also called couplets, happy children, couplets and so on. , can be written on paper, cloth, bamboo, board, column, or carved on wood or stone. In short, as long as they are paired and the antithesis is neat, they are all couplets.
Features:
First, the form is symmetrical.
Second, the meaning is relative. There are pros and cons, and there is a right run.
Yes, for example, "silkworms in spring will weave until they die, and candles will drain the wick every night."
Objection refers to the opposite meaning, such as "look at a thousand fingers coldly and bow your head as a willing ox."
Running water is just the opposite, such as "wildfire didn't consume them all, but they got tall again in the spring breeze."
Third, the level is relative. Chinese characters have one, two, three and four tones, which are Ping, Ping, Yi and Yi respectively. The upper part is flat, and so is the lower part.
For example: "Look at a thousand fingers with a frown, bow your head and be a willing ox."
Its flatness is: flat, flat, flat, flat, flat.
Short stories:
First of all, this is the story of Ji Xiaolan, a great scholar in Qing Dynasty:
When Mr. Ji was very young, he was clever and naughty, and often made the teacher laugh and cry (the teacher's surname was Shi); One day, Ji Xiaolan took a little yellow bird to school to play. Just as he was having fun, Teacher Shi came in. Ji Xiaolan immediately hid the bird behind the loose brick on the wall. Teacher Shi also saw it. He pretended not to know and went to class. However, when Mr. Shi walked to the wall with a poem, he suddenly pushed the brick back with his hand, and the poor bird was crushed to death. The teacher also proudly sings:
"Good feathers and good birds die after bricks."
Ji Xiaolan thought for a moment and said, "Teacher, can I give you a word? The teacher still proudly said, "Of course. Ji Xiaolan said, "You read JIA Yu's fine birds. I will give you a coarse-haired beast, your bricks, my stones, my first time and my life.
"Rough-haired beasts and stones rank first."
When the teacher heard this, he knew that Ji Xiaolan was cursing him with homonym. His nose was crooked, but he was right or wrong!
Second, Su Dongpo and Fo Yin.
Su Dongpo is in Hangzhou and likes to make friends with monks in West Lake Temple. He and monk Fo Yin of the Holy Mountain Temple are best friends. They often make jokes while drinking and reciting poems.
Monks in Fo Yin are delicious. Whenever Su Dongpo treats guests at a banquet, he always comes uninvited. One night, Su Dongpo invited Huang Tingjian to visit the West Lake, and many tables and drinks were prepared on board. When the cruise ship left the shore, Su Dongpo smiled and said to Huang Tingjian, "Fo Yin will come to every party. Tonight, we will go to the lake by boat to drink, sing poems and have fun. He can't come anyway. " "Who knows, Fo Yin monks have long discovered that Su Dongpo wanted to swim with Huang Tingjian, so they hid under the deck when they didn't get on the boat.
The bright moon is in the sky, the cool breeze is refreshing, and the lotus fragrance is full of lakes. The cruise ship slowly arrived at the Three Towers of the West Lake. Su Dongpo raised his glass and smoothed his beard. He happily said to Huang Tingjian, "Today, without Fo Yin, we are quiet. Let's start by ordering wine. The first two sentences should be immediate and the last two sentences should end with the word "in". " Huang Tingjian said, "All right!" Su Dongpo first said:
What can the sky say when the clouds are parted and the bright moon is in the sky? What did heaven say?
Huang Tingjian looked at the lotus full of lakes, and then said:
Li Anping separated and swam out of the fish, which she deserved! Get what you want!
At that time, Fo Yin couldn't help getting off the deck. Hearing Huang Tingjian say this, he pushed the deck away and climbed out to say:
When the boards were separated, Fo Yin came out, which was really frustrating! Suppress people!
Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian were startled to see a man suddenly climb out from under the planking. When they looked carefully, it turned out to be Fo Yin. When they heard him say such four poems, they couldn't help laughing.
Su Dongpo took Fo Yin and sat down and said, "You hid well. You are right. You ate again today! So, while enjoying the moon, the three men swam around the lake, talking and laughing.
One day, Su Dongpo instructed the chef to use a live grass carp from the West Lake, wash it, cut it open, split it with five knives, and steam it with ham, onion and ginger. The cook made it and sent it to the study. Su Dongpo looked hot and delicious, and the knife marks on the fish were like willows. He repeatedly shouted, "What a mullet!" Just want to eat chopsticks, suddenly, I saw a flash figure outside the window, Fo Yin monk came. Su Dongpo thought, "Hey, what a monk! He didn't come early or late! I was about to eat fish when you came. I won't let you eat today. What do you do? " I reached out and put this plate of fish on the shelf.
Fo Yin has seen the dish of fish outside the window and thought, Well, you have hidden it well! I want you to take it out, too Su Dongpo greeted Fo Yin with a smile and sat down. He asked, "The big monk is not in the temple. What do you have to say here? " Fo Yin replied solemnly, "I came here today to ask you something." "What word!" "Your name is Sue, how do you spell' Sue'? Su Dongpo's brow wrinkled. Knowing that he was so learned that he couldn't even write the word "Su", he pretended to be serious and replied, "Oh, this word" Su "has a grass prefix on it, a word" Fish "on the left and a word" Wo "on the right. Fo Yin also asked in a confused way, "Oh, what if there is a' valley' on the left and a' fish' on the right under the grass prefix? Su Dongpo said, "Let's say' Sue'. Fo Yin also said, "How about putting the fish on the grass?" Su Dongpo quickly said, "Oh, that won't do!" Fo Yin smiled and said, "Good! You say it's not good to put the fish on it, then take it off! Su Dongpo suddenly woke up! Fo Yin said, eating his plate of mullet.
On one occasion, when Fo Yin was in the temple and knew that Su Dongpo was coming, he steamed a plate of mullet. Su Dongpo just came in. Fo Yin thought, last time you played a joke on me, I'm going to give you a hard time today. There happened to be a chime beside him, so he put the fish in.
Su Dongpo saw it long ago and pretended not to know. As soon as I sat down, I sighed on purpose. Knowing that Su Dongpo was optimistic, Fo Yin asked doubtfully, "Taishou, why are you so sad today? Su Dongpo replied, "Alas, monk, you don't know. In the morning, I want to write a couplet. Who knows, just after writing the first couplet, the second couplet will be difficult. I can't think of it all the time, so I'm very upset! Fo Yin asked, "I don't know what the first part is? Su Dongpo replied: "The first part of the couplet is' Spring Arrives at Xiangyang Gate'. Fo Yin was amused when he heard this: This couplet was pasted on every family, but he used it to make fun of me. I don't know what medicine is sold in the gourd of Su Dong. So he said quietly, "I'll give it to you, right?" The bottom line is "this is not just a celebration to accumulate outstanding talents." Su Dongpo even shouted: "Oh, a talented person is a talented person! So you have fish (surplus) in Qing! Come on, take it out and eat it. " Fo Yin this just suddenly enlighted, obediently took out the fish from the hands of the qing.
Third, when Yu Qian was a child, he tied his hair into two buns, and a monk laughed at him.
"Niutou is happy to have a dragon horn."
Yu Qian immediately answer:
"Can dogs produce ivory?"
But after Yu Qian came home, he told his mother that she would comb him into a triangle immediately; Yu Qian went out and met a monk. The monk laughed at him again.
"The triangle is like a drum stand"
Yu Qian replied:
"Bald people are like a hammer."
The monk was speechless.
Third, Chang 'e loves Green Lang.
Once upon a time, there was an aide who had a beautiful daughter, and Shang Feng motioned to her many times to marry her as a concubine. The assistant didn't dare to disobey him, but he was afraid of wronged his daughter. He is hesitating with his wife. When he was sad, his daughter came to meet him. When he saw it, he asked his parents what they were thinking. Parents must tell the truth.
The daughter was brilliant and filial to her parents. She had a brainwave and said to her parents, "I have three conditions. First, I have not only the orders of my parents, but also the words of the matchmaker. I should ask the maharaja to act as matchmaker. " Second, the bride price should have treasures such as rose gems and yellow pearls; Third, before entering the bridal chamber, you must make a pair. If one of the three is missing, I will never marry him. "
Father nodded and said yes. The next day, I reported to the senior officials, who answered them one by one. On the wedding day, the luxurious style is self-evident. After the guests dispersed, the official stepped into the bridal chamber, but was stopped by the maid-in-waiting and let them pair up. I saw on the red note: bamboo reflects peach blossoms, and gentlemen are greedy for red powder. The big officer looked at the font of son, but it was not worthy at the moment, so he moved to the yard. Just as I was looking up at the bright moon in the sky and chanting, a subordinate came over and asked, "What's wrong with adults not entering the bridal chamber and singing poetry in a good mood?" The official told him about the claim. After listening to it, the subordinates praised it again and again, and the couplets were unique. Bamboo is called a gentleman, and pink peach blossom is a pun. Inevitably, it is also conceived silently.
At this time, the stars and the moon were shining and the shadows were dancing, which suddenly touched the inspiration of subordinates. I saw him shaking his head and chanting: The moon wears willows, and Chang 'e once loved Tsing Yi Lang.
The official company said, "Great! Wonderful! There will be many rewards tomorrow. " Then go directly to the bridal chamber to hand in the papers.
The maid-in-waiting sent a picture, and the girl pondered it. She raised her pen and criticized, "I'm afraid I didn't mean it from my heart, because I was born in the second place in the public sector." The official was ashamed when he saw the comment on writing. He thought for a moment, then resolutely left the bridal chamber, went to the subordinate, called him into the bridal chamber, and gave him all the dowry as a gift.
Fourth, Mr. Li Songer has wooden feet.
It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were two scholars in Guangdong who thought they were very talented, Li. They traveled together, seeing the mountains and enjoying the scenery all the way, which was very uncomfortable. I was tired and thirsty after swimming for a long time. I saw a monk in his seventies enjoying the cool in the shade in front of him, with a gourd beside him, and went forward to beg for water to drink.
The old monk looked at the two men and said, What are your names? There is water, but you have to match it before you can drink it. The two scholars readily agreed and introduced themselves as Li and Song. Hearing this, the old monk embedded their surnames in couplets and said that Mr. Li Songer was a wooden foot. After hearing this, the two scholars laughed at themselves when they saw the couplets, but they didn't get them right for a long time. Not only did they have no water to drink, but they got bored and left.
This story has been circulated among the people for hundreds of years. In the 1980s, a reader of Guangdong Farmers' Daily made up this story and threw it into the newspaper. There are 36 lovers of couplets, among which only Huang Wenchang, a reader from Yangchun County, is right.
His bottom line is: Miss Gong Pang, the dragon head and the dragon body.
Wang, the fortune teller in the town, is an old scholar with profound knowledge and integrity. Liu Shiliang appreciates him very much and often asks him for advice. Mr. Wang is a loner. He likes this clever little guy very much and takes him as an apprentice. Under the guidance of Mr. Wang, I studied hard and made rapid progress.
There is a rich man named Li in the town. His family has hundreds of acres of fertile land and is also a usurer. At the end of one year, a poor man borrowed Li Caizhu's usury and couldn't pay interest. Li Caizhu asked the man's little daughter to go to his house as a maid to pay off debts. Liu Shiliang can't stand it, so he wants to fight injustice. It happened that Mr. Wang saw it and took him home and said, "Can you be so unscrupulous with such a person?" Liu Shiliang woke up and said, "Use your brain to fight with them!" Mr. Wang was very happy and said, "I'll do the first half and you do the second half." Say that finish, read:
Deal with evil forces and rest unscrupulously;
Liu Shiliang answer replied:
If you want to open up a new field, you need to be smart.
Mr. Wang said appreciatively, "We can't be reckless next time. Think more when you encounter something. "
Rich Li Man is mean and vicious, but he holds a rosary all day and pretends to be merciful. On New Year's Eve, he posted a couplet on the gate:
Color is empty and color.
If others don't forgive me, I will forgive them.
Liu Shiliang had a brainwave, and wrote a pair of couplets to stick on the door of Big Brother's yellow cake shop. Couplets are:
Life is Qian Qian's life.
People don't harm me, I harm others.
After Li Caizhu heard about it, she angrily pleaded guilty. Liu Shiliang walked out of the room and said to the onlookers, "He posted couplets and I posted mine. What's wrong? " Li Caizhu said, "Why did you write about me?" Liu Shiliang said, "We poor people operate on a shoestring, so we can't compare with the rich. If we can't make money, we will starve. So what's wrong with saying' money is life'? If we don't sell yellow cakes well, people will get sick after eating them. Isn't it' I hurt people'? " Everyone burst into laughter. The rich Li Man was speechless and had to leave despondently.
Second, Liu Shiliang and Cixi joined hands.
Shi Liang was very dissatisfied with the corruption in the Qing court and worried about the future of the country. He is extremely looking forward to the rich Qiang Bing, driving away the foreign powers, and has high hopes for the reform of Kangliang. However, under the opposition of the die-hards headed by Empress Dowager Cixi, the reform completely failed in just a hundred days. Liu Shiliang is not as afraid of the imperial court as most people. He hated Guangxu's incompetence and the cruelty and domineering of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu died in 1908, and the funeral was very grand. The court also ordered the whole country to stop entertainment to show "national mourning". Chengdu officials even stipulate that every gate should be affixed with elegiac couplets, otherwise they will be punished. Liu Shiliang was very angry about this, so he made a humorous elegy to mock. The elegiac couplet reads:
Sprinkle a few ordinary tears;
Two special people died.
Horizontal criticism: Tong Tong Tong Tong
This couplet mercilessly mocked Cixi and Guangxu, especially the horizontal comments of four homophones, which sounded like a spear. People who saw this couplet couldn't help laughing and suddenly became a joke. There is a nobleman opposite Liu Shiliang's house. He once laughed at him and hated him for a long time. After reading this couplet, he thought, "Here comes the chance of revenge." He went to the yamen to report to Liu Shiliang. The government arrested Liu Shiliang for interrogation, but Liu Shiliang wrote down all the facts, and the government couldn't find any mistakes, so he had to be fined five silver dollars for "disrespect" and ordered him to tear up the couplets and rewrite them.
1. Lv Mengzheng, a Song poet, posted a couplet on his door during the Spring Festival one year. The first part was 2345; Downline: six seven eight nine. The horizontal approval is: North and South. It means that there is no food and clothing during the Spring Festival this year.
Second, in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a scholar named Lv Mengzheng. He was born in poverty and made a living by selling words and writing poems. One day, Lv Mengzheng passed by the gate of Mr. Zhao's residence and saw a group of literati putting on airs and making a lot of noise. When asked, it turned out to be Mr. Zhao's son, who is in his 50 s. He was very happy, so he spent a large sum of money to hire a scholar as his doorkeeper. Now, these Confucian scholars are searching for their guts and fighting for no rights. Suddenly, NiXingGuan, the son of the assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, shouted "Yes", so he proudly wrote a couplet and posted it on the door of Zhaofu:
A son should inherit his father's career;
I will repay your kindness.
When the Confucianism saw it, it quickly flattered, and Mr. Zhao also had mixed opinions. Who knows that Lv Mengzheng, who stood by, couldn't help laughing: "This couplet is posted at the door, and I am not afraid of others laughing!" Seeing that he was a poor man with a coarse cloth and a blue shirt, Ni Guanxing proudly said, "Fuck off, you have no right to comment!" " Confucian scholars also gave a burst of laughter.
Lv Mengzheng in the face of ridicule insult, disagree, clear voice sing a way:
Look up and laugh at yourself for being poor, because you are poor and different from others;
Pull out the Longquan sword at the waist, cut off the poor roots and never be poor.
Nye Kwan Hing grabbed Lv Mengzheng and said, "What do you think is wrong with this alliance? If you can't tell me the reason, I will go to the yamen to sue you for insulting Sven! " Lv Mengzheng pushed off her hand and said confidently, "Do you want to sue me? I want to sue you! This alliance is not only rough, but also a disaster of genocide. " Hearing this, Mr. Zhao was shocked and bowed down and asked, "Guest, please tell me the cause of the accident." Lv Mengzheng said with a smile, "This alliance has reversed human relations and disrespected your father. How can I be a minister before the monarch and a son before my father? " When they heard this, they looked at each other and were speechless.
At this time, Mr. Zhao felt that Lv Mengzheng had a point, so he asked Lv Mengzheng to make another couplet to show off the lintel. When Lv Mengzheng saw the kindness and difficulty, he said: "There is no need to rewrite it, just change the words in the couplet and change it to' father's business; Monarchs and ministers can report. "Mr. Zhao see quick wit, young, and want to give it a try, then go out as their own, ask and:
Not old enough to think of pavilions;
At NiXingGuan Lv Mengzheng, smiled and said:
No one is a scholar.
Hearing this, Mr. Zhao was full of praise and planned to betroth his daughter Daiju to Lv Mengzheng. At this time, NiXingGuan jealousy daihatsu, bad to ruthlessly sang 1:
How can there be a dragon horn in a cow's head?
Lv Mengzheng did not show weakness:
How can a dog's mouth grow ivory!
NiXingGuan immediately way:
A cold Confucian wants to climb Longfeng osmanthus;
Lv Mengzheng saw a statue of Buddha in the middle of the living room and said:
Sambo sits on the shore, sitting like a lotus flower.
Ni's poems are mediocre and silent. Although he was angry, he had to leave in frustration. Mr. Zhao was shocked and immediately sent the maid to the boudoir to tell her that she had chosen a daughter-in-law for her. Miss Daiju is smart since she was a child, good at poetry and songs, and has both talent and appearance. After hearing what the handmaid said, she told her father that she also had a couplet. If Lv Mengzheng could make a couplet, she could talk about marriage. Her first part is:
Lotus root is due to lotus;
Miss Lv Mengzheng is a homophonic couplet, then a wave of his hand:
Apricots do not need plums.
Seeing that she was clean and metaphorically right, the young lady couldn't help smiling and acquiesced in this marriage. After marriage, the young couple are like-minded, loving each other and inseparable.
Thirdly, there is another folklore about Lv Mengzheng's marriage. Please read the next article "Beautiful Couples in Colorful Buildings".
According to the Yue Opera Dream of Red Mansions, Lv Mengzheng was unexpectedly admitted because of winning the lottery. In fact, Lumeng had already taken a class before winning the color ball.
It is said that Lv Mengzheng's entrance examination in Beijing was postponed, the travelling expenses were exhausted, and she was down and out. One day, the daughter of Prime Minister Liu threw an embroidered ball to marry her husband, and the capital was very lively. Lv Mengzheng also went to join in the fun. Seeing him in rags, the doorman outside Cailou stopped him and said, "It's past the admission time. Can you punish him face to face? " Lv Mengzheng said with a smile: "You can't judge a person by his appearance, nor can you judge the sea." The guard was speechless by his words, so he took Lv Mengzheng downstairs to see Miss Liu.
Miss Yue, who is sitting on the colorful building, is 29 years old, smart and handsome, and can play chess, calligraphy and painting. The matchmaker stepped on the threshold, and friends and relatives were either royalty or official children. Liu, the prime minister, did not dare to allow this family to offend that one, so he had to make a list of "throwing colored balls" and find relatives and friends. When Prime Minister Liu told her daughter about it, Miss Liu cried sadly and said, "The colored ball is not long-sighted, which will ruin her daughter's life." Prime Minister Liu Yue said, "Do you keep your word?" Miss Liu asked her father to add one item to the list: On the day of throwing the ball, you must enter the venue on time, and if you are too late, you will be punished for class. Prime Minister Liu doesn't know what daughter means. Miss Liu said, "With this rule, playboys, embroidered straw bags and uneducated people will definitely enter the market early; A learned wit dares to be late ... "Liu, the Prime Minister, agreed to her daughter's request.
At the moment, Lv Mengzheng was taken to Cai Lou. Miss Liu opened the bead curtain and saw that although she was in rags, she had regular facial features and bright eyes, which was quite a bit of a scholar. She ordered the maid to ask May her name and age, and then she asked a question:
Black and white do not distinguish between north and south;
Lv Mengzheng blurted out:
Green and yellow didn't come for anything.
After listening to Lv Mengzheng's class, Teacher Liu feels very good. She pays attention to hierarchy and level, but she is not elegant, so she asked another question:
Fish umbrella with lotus leaf;
Oh, Yin adjusted her clothes and replied with a smile:
Trivial lice nest.
Miss Liu has another pair:
A silver gun can stop a million soldiers;
Lv Mengzheng waved a begging stick along with the sound should way:
Half a bamboo pole drives away thousands of evil dogs.
Miss Liu thought she was really talented, and even answered three courses eloquently. It's a pity that he kept silent and begged, but he couldn't help being funny and angry. Xiang Mei wanted Lv Mengzheng to succeed, so she said to the young lady, "Lu Xianggong was down and out, and suffered greatly. The lesson he gave must contain bitterness." She leaned to miss ear, miss smiled and made an antithesis:
On the cross street, it's called grandpa, grandpa, grandpa;
Lv Mengzheng suddenly eyes a bright, blurt out:
Hooray, hooray, hooray.
Teacher Liu immediately smiled, lifted the bead curtain, walked onto the stage with colored balls in his hand, and threw them at Lv Mengzheng, who had no intention of seeking relatives and friends. Lv Mengzheng load, lifted the broken cotton gown, a catch the colored ball.
Legend has it that a long-term worker scolded the landlord. A poor scholar has no choice but to work for the landlord. On a summer day when it didn't rain for a long time, the old landlord just let the long-term workers hoe the ground, saying that the drought was getting worse and worse, so the long-term workers and scholars had to hoe the ground in the hot sun. The old landlord sat in the field to supervise the work, and the working scholars were sweating and thirsty, so they had to beg their master to give them some water to drink. The shopkeeper didn't say water supply, but slipped out a pair of couplets:
If it rains, you won't get into the water, and it will only turn into water when it rains. If it rains, it is very troublesome to turn into water. If it rains, you'd better go into the water.
Long scholar listened to the Council, put down his hoe and answered the bottom line:
Rich people don't eat shit, and eating shit is very troublesome. Rich people might as well eat shit.
Hearing this, the old landlord and supervisor felt humiliated and left with water in a rage. A scholar, a long-term worker, went to a nearby mountain spring to drink water at will.
It is also said that in ancient times, a scholar went to Beijing to catch the exam, and was robbed by robbers on the way. He was so hungry that he had to beg. Arriving at the door of a rich man's house, the rich man saw his pitiful face and sent a pair of couplets, which read, "The palm tree was stripped and he became a bachelor."
Knowing that the rich man intended to satirize him, the scholar said to the bottom line, "Chili peppers open their mouths to see black hearts." It vividly reveals the black heart of the rich man.
It is said that after Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered the whole country to celebrate. At that time, someone wrote such a couplet:
Celebrate with the whole world, celebrate, celebrate.
The country is crazy when it is crazy.
"Party Celebration" and "Emotional Madness" are the sad sounds of local mourning. This couplet skillfully expresses the people's contempt for Yuan Shikai.
There is also a story about a bachelor posting Spring Festival couplets. People celebrate the Spring Festival with happy family members, men, women and children, put up Spring Festival couplets and set off firecrackers. They also like Chinese New Year, especially couplets, so they wrote a pair of couplets for themselves:
There is wine, meat and tofu.
No children, no daughters, no wives.
The horizontal approval is: one person for the New Year.
It shows that the custom of pasting couplets is very common, especially the Spring Festival couplets, which almost reaches the level of village rules and regulations. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, there will be a schedule every day, and 23 honeydew melons will be dipped (the day to send the kitchen god to heaven); Twenty-four, write big characters; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, prepare meat (kill pigs and sheep); Twenty-seven, kill the rooster; Twenty-eight, white hair; Twenty-nine, all; Thirty years old, rolling the crust.
This twenty-four, writing big characters, is to buy red paper to write pairs, because there are very few people in a village, especially those who can write pairs. You must prepare early and let your husband write them before he is thirty. In Jingxi, 30-year-old couples posted it in the morning, which is probably the case all over the country. Because New Year's Eve is the day of family reunion, and it is already the Spring Festival. It is more meaningful to post Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.