Spring Festival is the most festive traditional festival in a year.
As long as they are Chinese sons and daughters, they will gather together on this special day and devote themselves wholeheartedly to this prosperous "flavor of the year".
During the Spring Festival, posting Spring Festival couplets is a must.
Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door pairs" and "couplets", are one of the red festive elements "Year Red" posted during the New Year.
Spring Festival couplets, with neat antithesis and concise and exquisite words, can vividly depict a beautiful life and express good wishes in the heart. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for Chinese people to celebrate the New Year.
Whenever people put up New Year's red scrolls (Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles, etc.) on their doorsteps, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicks off.
As a traditional custom of the Chinese nation, there will naturally be a lot of attention to posting Spring Festival couplets, including the place, time and even some taboos. These are the advice left by our ancestors.
As sons and daughters of China, these cannot be forgotten, because it is a memory engraved in the bones, a blood inheritance, and a unique mark.
Spring Festival couplets are red, and red has been endowed with the beautiful meaning of ward off evil spirits and disasters, and welcome the auspicious and blessed.
In the recorded literature, it can be found that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated in the Song Dynasty, prevailed in the Ming Dynasty and has been passed down to this day.
People have different opinions about the time of posting Spring Festival couplets. In some places, Spring Festival couplets have been posted as early as the "off-year". This is also the hope that luck and fortune will arrive home earlier. Who can refuse such a good wish?
Judging from the time when the ancients posted Spring Festival couplets, it was on the day of "beginning of spring", because this time node happened to be "the beginning of the year", which has a special meaning.
However, with the changes of the years, the time for posting Spring Festival couplets has also changed. There are mainly two time nodes that are regarded as the "best" time to post Spring Festival couplets, namely the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is from noon 12 to afternoon 15, and is blessed by our ancestors with a prosperous future.
Another time node is the 30 th day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, on New Year's Eve, from 6 am to noon 12 pm, Spring Festival couplets can be posted, and this day is endowed with a beautiful vision of spring.
In addition, there are three taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets, which are also derived from the ancestors' expectation for a better life, and what they say is reasonable.
Taboo 1: families who are in mourning should not post Spring Festival couplets, even if they post "couplets", they should not post red ones.
Because red represents auspiciousness, which is incompatible with the atmosphere of funeral.
Traditionally, filial piety lasts for three years. From the first year to the third year, white couplets, green couplets and yellow couplets are posted respectively.
It was not until the end of the mourning period that the red couplets were posted normally.
This kind of inheritance is really harsh. Nowadays, people in most areas have gradually diluted this custom. After the white matter is done, they can "get the understanding of their ancestors" and start living in a normal order.
Taboo two, when posting couplets, be sure not to post them backwards.
Couplets are usually posted on the door, divided into about two parts.
Many young people buy it directly and start posting it when they go home. As for whether it is posted right or not, they have no idea.
The simplest way to distinguish is to look at the horizontal batch.
If the horizontal batch is written from right to left, the upper part is on the right and the lower part is on the left.
On the contrary, it is the same.
Taboo three, posting Spring Festival couplets is best done within the specified time.
It's neither too early nor too late.
After New Year's Eve, it is not recommended to post couplets again, because in the eyes of our ancestors, this time has passed the auspicious meaning given to Spring Festival couplets.
And it should also be noted that when pasting couplets, they must be pasted firmly, because once pasted, they will remain motionless for one year.
Don't tear up the Spring Festival couplets until the next year, which means that they are getting better and better every year, and they are "by going up one flight of stairs" every year.
The expectation of life is not limited to this, which is also the driving force for continuous struggle.
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New Year's Eve is coming soon, and the flavor of the year is getting stronger and stronger. Everyone is busy going home, looking forward to seeing their elderly parents and long-lost children earlier. The desire for reunion has turned into a force to move forward. This is the "New Year", which is the essence of culture.
We should treat some exquisite and taboo left by our ancestors rationally. After all, society is progressing and thoughts are moving forward.
While respecting and retaining traditional culture, we should not be too "old". The "degree" between them needs to be measured by ourselves.
If we find that balance point, we can shine more dazzling light on the road of civilization.
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