The best time to post Spring Festival couplets and pay attention to detailed explanations, grasp the opportunity to welcome the New Year
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is 2024, and there are still four days to go before the New Year. At this time, every household has already prepared what they will need for the new year. The Chinese New Year is the most important festival in our country, and it is also the day that everyone is most looking forward to. On this day, the whole country celebrates and families are reunited.
Since the Chinese New Year is important, customs are also essential. Speaking of which, let's talk about pasting couplets. The custom of sticking couplets has a history of thousands of years and is a very well-preserved folk custom. However, because of the passage of time, traditional civilization has been affected by modern thoughts, so many customs are slowly being forgotten. Nowadays, many people don't even know when they will be able to put the couplets up. Let's take a look at the best time to paste couplets during the Chinese New Year.
In fact, in this land, there are many ancient stories, all related to our customs. For example, when you are 26 years old, you will make braised pork, when you are 27, when you are 27, when you are 27, you will make noodles, when you are 29, when you are 29, you will need to make spring couplets.
From this sentence, we can also roughly understand the date of the Spring Festival couplets. However, in the eyes of the common people, it is best not to celebrate the New Year on the thirtieth day of the lunar month, but at a certain hour on this day. So, when is the best time to do it? What's going on?
When it comes to the "New Year", many old people say that the New Year is the "thirtieth day of the lunar month", that is, from 8 to 12 o'clock in the morning. And now, most people believe that a new year is coming. This is a good time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. In addition, on the 30th day of the lunar month, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is definitely the most critical time of the year, to set off firecrackers to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.
Therefore, all the preparations before the Chinese New Year must be done. Here, of course, it also includes pasting Spring Festival couplets, hanging lanterns, pasting window flowers, pasting auspicious characters, etc. But here, it is still necessary to follow the local customs.
In some places, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will not be set in the morning, nor will it be set at 5 p.m. The customs are different in each place, so when posting, they are also different. But in general, in most places, the best time for the New Year is on the morning of the thirtieth day of the lunar month.
So, what else should you pay attention to when you understand how to paste couplets?
1. Distinguish between the upper and lower options. In ancient times, people clearly identified the connection between the upper and lower links. Because many people don't understand this truth now, when they post couplets, they always stick them according to their own hearts. However, if you want to follow the rules, you have to look at the upper and lower links. Another point to note is that the last word of the upper link is often the previous sound in pinyin, but it can also be four tones.
2. Do not post couplets at funerals. In the people, if there is no mourning within three years, no more couplets can be posted. In another three years, it's time for couplets.
In a word, Spring Festival couplets are a traditional culture that each of us should learn and inherit well.