The Spring Festival couplets are a symbol of the New Year, and pasting the Spring Festival couplets means "the beginning of the year".
However, in our hometown, on the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, if you turn around the street, most people's doors have not yet posted the Spring Festival.
It's not that people are too busy and don't have time, but it is said that in our place, pay attention to "the sun sets, the Spring Festival stickers" - paste the Spring Festival, on Chinese New Year's Eve, and you can't post it until the dark day.
Why is that?
In the past, doing business with croppers was mostly not cash transactions, but mainly on "credit".
For example, forks, rakes, brooms, and shovels, dustpans to whip oxwhips, and sieves to carry baskets and sacks are all sellers who go to the countryside in the spring to sell without cash, and wait until the crops are harvested after the autumn to ask for accounts; Another example is the sale of chickens, ducks and geese, the same is the case, the spring on credit, when the chickens are big, the accounts will be collected after the autumn.
In the past, transportation was inconvenient, and it took a long time to collect accounts from the autumn, and many times it was until the Chinese New Year's Eve.
What does this have to do with Spring Festival couplets?
You think, the New Year is auspicious and smooth, the Spring Festival couplets at home means that the New Year has begun, and at this time there is a debt collection door-to-door, it will be bad atmosphere.
Therefore, loyal and kind people, if the owner sees the Spring Festival couplets pasted on the master's house, they will not go to ask for the debt, and will ask for it again in the next year. And if it is a door-to-door hard bargain, it will not let the family "have a good New Year", and it will seem "not authentic".
In the same way, if the owner's family still has an account to be paid, the Spring Festival Lian cannot be posted early, and it has to wait until the sun sets on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, and the person who wants the account really can't wait, so he starts to paste the Spring Festival Lian.
Of course, if the family is not having a good time this year, it is really difficult, and there is really no money to pay the bill, then post the Spring Festival early, even a few days before Chinese New Year's Eve, with the intention of telling the credit owner, "Sorry, sorry, sorry, I really can't pay this year's account, don't delay time with me, I will definitely pay it back next year, please understand!" ”
When the owner of credit comes to the door, once he sees that the owner's house has pasted the Spring Festival couplets early, he will know what the situation is, no matter how much money the other party owes, how difficult it is, and he will not come to the door to collect it.
Therefore, "the sun sets, the Spring Festival couplet" shows the integrity and kindness of the owner, the tolerance and generosity of the owner, and it is a simple folk custom!
In fact, in our hometown, every family, no matter how difficult the life is, will do their best to leave the money for the credit owner to repay the debt.
And if there is really someone who sticks the Spring Festival couplets early every year, it means that the family is not doing well, if there is a boy in the family, the matchmaker can't invite it.
Author, Li Yuzhu, this article is an original work of Pinghu Yizhu, welcome to guide, ** or quote, please indicate the author and source, offenders must be investigated. ）
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