Spring Festival couplets, which have a history of more than 1,000 years in China, are not only a traditional cultural style, but also an indispensable ritual for every household to celebrate the New Year. Approaching the Spring Festival, the topic of how to distinguish the upper and lower links of the Spring Festival rushed to the hot search, and many netizens left messages for heated discussions, "Little Spring Union University asked", "Collection and study", "Chinese New Year's Eve will be arranged".
Questions. What are the particularities of sticking Spring Festival couplets?
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Spring couplets are also called "couplets" and "couplets", etc., which evolved from peach symbols. "The Book of Later Han Dynasty and Etiquette" records: "On the first day of the first month, the peach charm is made to the household, the name is immortal wood, and the hundred ghosts are afraid. "It can be seen that during the Han Dynasty, the Chinese had begun to hang mahogany charms on the gates.
Later, Meng Chang, the Later Shu monarch of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, began to write couplets on peach symbols. According to the record of "History of the Song Dynasty and the Shu Family", Meng Chang "divides every year, and orders the bachelor as the word, the inscription peach charm, and the left and right of the dormitory." In the last years, the bachelor Xing Xun wrote the lyrics, Chang with his non-work, self-appointed pen title cloud: New Year's celebration, Jiajie Changchun. This is the earliest known written couplet. Around the time of the Ming Dynasty, the peach charm was renamed "Spring Festival Couplets".
Spring Festival couplets mainly highlight the "spring" and "happy", to create the atmosphere that spring is approaching, the Spring Festival is coming, there are many types, according to different places of use, and divided into door couplet, heavy door couplet, bucket catty, etc. The common Spring Festival couplets are mostly five words and seven words, and they usually pay attention to the equivalence of words and sentences, parts of speech pairs, structural correspondence, etc., and not only the number of words between the upper and lower couplets is equal, but the words in the same position will also have the same class of speech, or conform to the traditional dual types.
Generally speaking, the last word of the upper couplet of the Spring Festival couplet should be in the sound of the voice, which is equivalent to the third or fourth tone of modern Chinese, and the last word of the lower couplet should be in the flat tone, which is equivalent to the first or second tone of modern Chinese. Taking the seven-character couplet as an example, the most common law of Ping Qi is usually "Ping Ping, Ping Ping Ping, Ping" or "Ping Ping, Ping, Ping".
The traditional Spring Festival couplets pay attention to the person facing the door, the right hand is up, and the left hand is down, that is, from right to left, but this is according to the ancients' writing habits from right to left. At present, the left and right of the upper and lower links generally depend on the horizontal batch, if the horizontal batch is written from right to left, the upper link is pasted on the right side, and vice versa.
In general, sticking Spring Festival couplets is not only a New Year's custom, but also a cultural inheritance and expression. It embodies people's yearning and pursuit of a better life, and also shows the unique charm of Chinese culture.
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