Every year during the Spring Festival, every household sticks red couplets on their doors, which adds to the festive atmosphere. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form of the Han nationality. There is no limit to the number of words in the upper and lower couplets, but they must be equal. Common couplets have five words and seven words. When people put couplets and blessings on their doorsteps, it means the official start of the Spring Festival.
Spring Festival couplets are a new style derived from parallel prose and a traditional form of poetry and literature. It is different from ancient parallel prose and poetry, and it is a unique independent style. Although the antithetical couplets in regular poems or parallel prose are often wonderful couplets, they can only be called couplets if they exist independently of regular poems or parallel prose. Its most striking feature is that it is paired in form, and the two couplets are closely linked.
Holiday habits:
1, Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way.
2. Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals of Chinese character culture circle and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.
3. The dragon raised its head
Dragon Head Raising, also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival, Qinglong Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival. Dragon refers to the seven-night astrology of the eastern black dragon on the 28th night. At the beginning of mid-spring, the dragon horn star rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called the dragon looks up.
4. Cold Food Festival
The Cold Food Festival is from summer to the future 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased.