Take a look at your home's window flower couplets Spring Festival couplets are a traditional Chinese custom, which can not only increase the festive festivities, but also place people's yearning for a better life. In the past few days, everyone has been busy pasting Spring Festival couplets. Pasting Spring Festival couplets seems simple, but in fact it is a technical job, and it may be reversed if you are not careful.
Although it is not a big deal to post the Spring Festival couplets upside down, it will also become a joke and make people think that you are uneducated. So, how to paste the Spring Festival couplets correctly?
First of all, you need to determine the upper and lower links. Spring couplets are composed of upper and lower couplets, which are a special form of couplets. The basic characteristics of couplets are "six phases", that is: the number of words is equal, the content is related, the parts of speech are comparable, the structure is commensurate, the rhythm is corresponding, and the balance is opposite. The easiest way to distinguish the upper and lower links is to look at the last word or two words of the couplet. The upper link is a thousand, and the lower link is flat. For example: purple swallow is warm in spring; The moon is new when the year is new. Its level is: Ping; It's mediocre. The last two words of the upper link are 仄仄, and the lower link is Pingping. Another example: the golden dragon New Year's spring comes early; Purple swallow mud willow is green. Its level is: Ping Ping; It's a lot of peace. The upper link is mediocre, and the last one is Pingping; The next one is flat, and the last one is flat. Spring couplets are the same as all couplets, and there will be no third form (except for sick couplets, of course).
Secondly, you need to determine which side of the gate the upper link is pasted on. The ancient Chinese had an idiom called "no one out of the right", so respecting the left is great, and the upper link is naturally pasted on the left. The problem is that the Spring Festival couplets are posted by people, and people are standing against the gate, if you start from your own subjectivity, it is easy to rebel and regard the right as the left. We say that the upper link is posted on the left side of the gate to say that it is in the direction of the house, and people must stand in the same direction as the house when they go out. Another point is easy to understand, couplets are traditional culture, and everyone has read ancient Chinese books, arranged vertically, and read from the left. The couplets are naturally arranged in the same way in ancient books. Also, it can be determined according to the horizontal batch, the correct way to write the horizontal batch is to start from the left, and paste the Spring Festival couplets in the same direction as the horizontal batch. To say a superfluous word, to figure out this problem, in fact, it is also very important in life, involving specific issues such as rostrum, ranking, accompanying guests, etc., the reason is the same.
In addition, when pasting the Spring Festival couplets, the Spring Festival couplets posted in the previous year are cleaned up, indicating that they are new every year. When pasting, the paste or transparent glue should be firmly pasted, and should not be injured by wind and rain. The Spring Festival couplets are a symbol of a year of peace, good weather, all things are successful, and everything is better, and the longer it is preserved, the better.