How many words does the Spring Festival couplets generally need?

There is no word limit for cross-examination of couplets. Four characters are common, of course, there are three characters, five characters and six characters, but they are rare.

For example, Spring Festival couplets are generally four-word auspicious words. When selecting horizontal batches for the upper and lower parts, it is best not to overlap each other, because they are homonyms and should be avoided as much as possible.

The repetition and overlap mentioned here refers to the themes and main ideas expressed by the upper and lower couplets, including the keywords and words used in these two aspects. It is best not to repeat, otherwise it will give people a sense of redundancy, thus reducing the expression effect of Spring Festival couplets and the aesthetic feeling of calligraphy art.

For example:

The first part: Spring is warm on earth, and the second part: Happiness comes to Kyushu, and the sun and the moon are new. Choose horizontal criticism, and avoid "Five Blessingg is on the verge of death, the lucky stars are shining high, the happiness is in the sky, and the happiness is full of people". Otherwise, it will make readers feel monotonous and lack the brand-new atmosphere and appearance of the Spring Festival.

Writing order of couplet horizontal batch:

Cross-examination of couplets is an integral part of couplets. If there are any requirements for couplets, cross-examination must also meet these requirements. Couplets are from right to left, and horizontal criticism should also be from right to left.

The order of couplets is not derived from reading habits, but from a concept of respect and inferiority. The ancient Chinese saying that someone is very famous, and there is a saying that "there is no one like him at one time (no one can surpass him at one time)", which proves that rights are the best in ancient times. Another example is that an official was demoted. In ancient Chinese, it was called "moving left", which proved that left was the bottom in ancient times.

Similarly, when two people with different identities enter a gate at the same time, they should also let the senior and elderly people walk in the position of posting couplets, that is, on the right hand side, and follow up with their left hand later. These common sense of etiquette are still in use today, and people can't openly occupy the right hand position of VIPs because of the change of reading habits. ?