Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a must-have item for the New Year, and every family sticks it. So how to paste Spring Festival couplets? A pair of couplets has horizontal couplets and vertical couplets. There are relatively few cross-linked words, only 2 or 4 characters. This is posted on top of the doorway.
The rest of the vertical couplets are divided into upper and lower couplets and pasted on the left and right sides of the doorway. But how do you know that the upper and lower couplets of this couplet are on the left and the other on the right? This depends on the pronunciation tone of a word in the couplet, our ancients were very smart, good things, auspicious and smooth meaning good things are placed in the back, indicating hope.
According to this principle, it is easy to do, after reading the couplet, you think that the last word in the upper and lower couplets is more smooth, and there is a sense of pause in reading, which is the lower couplet. Take the sub-couplet as an example, such as this pair to welcome the New Year and all the best.
Celebrate the festive season and enjoy your fortune.
There is a sense of pause in the last word of this up and down. It's all over the word. The last word reads succinctly and clearly. Read through, you see that the last word gum meaning of the upper link reads long, meaning, then this is the upper link.
It is not clear to distinguish between the upper and lower links. It's okay to use the tone to divide it. It is also to look at the last word of the upper and lower tones, that is, to look at the pinyin tone, the third tone and the fourth tone are the upper link, and the first tone and the second tone are the lower tone.
That is to say, the last word of the couplet reads like walking downhill as the upper couplet, and the upper couplet can be judged, and the remaining one is the lower couplet.
But why did the ancients do this? And it will be passed down and become a cultural inheritance! Because it conforms to the law of development of things, and conforms to the right time, place and people.
The last one of the upper links has the feeling of going uphill and downhill, indicating that the year has also been bumpy and safe, and the last word of the lower link has come to a pause and suppress frustration. This is how the year ends. It's easy to distinguish between them.
Secondly, some people say that there are still a few points to paste on that day, generally on the 29th of the New Year, tear off the old Spring Festival couplets, indicating that the bad luck of the past year has been removed, and the New Year couplets will be pasted from 6 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock at noon on the 30th of the year, indicating that your family will be prosperous this year, and good luck will be repeated.
Second, don't stick the word spring at the door of the house, but stick the word blessing or fortune into the treasure. The blessing word at the door of the third house must not be upside down with the incense mole in the water tank and the blessing mole on the cabinet. You can paste it upside down, which means that blessing comes to the house.
Fourth, remember to paste the couplet that the number of words is singular, the singular number belongs to the yang, and the even number belongs to the yin, such as the singular number of five words, seven words, and nine words, symbolizing auspiciousness!