It is meaningful to hang any decorations at home during the Spring Festival. As a grand traditional festival, many people are ready to start thinking about what to replace the decorations at home, and they are also particular about choosing what to hang at home. Let's see what decorations are hung at home during the Spring Festival.
What decorations are hung at home during the Spring Festival? 1 antithetical couplet means good.
The end of the year, the Spring Festival is coming. According to the traditional custom of our country, every household should put up couplets. The gate is decorated with red couplets that can bring good luck. It can not only be used as a decorative item for the gate to welcome the sweet and beautiful Spring Festival, but also play a feng shui role in Naji in the new year, making the fortune in the coming year better.
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The word "fu" contains all the good fortune we talk about every day, such as wealth, longevity, health and smoothness, so it is deeply loved by the people. The word "blessing" means "welcoming" and "receiving". It is said that during the Spring Festival, gods will come to the world to enjoy worship. If the word "fu" is posted at home, the god of fortune will enter the door, so that his family will be particularly blessed.
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Sofa cover, which has been dull for a year, should always be bright during the Spring Festival. Big red is warm and full, and brick red is calm and concise. If you don't like a large area of red, the sofa cushion can also play a very good decorative role, and the meaning of sofa cover will be better.
Pay attention to hanging lanterns during the Spring Festival.
1, indoor lanterns should be small.
Don't be too sad. The suspension position should not be too low, which will affect the line of sight and traffic. The lanterns at the outdoor door should be symmetrical to the door, and the lanterns with large doors can be relatively larger. The hanging height refers to the top of the door, not too low, and the position is the best.
2. China paid attention to yes-men and Fulu in ancient times.
Hanging lanterns is the same. Generally, even numbers are required, not odd numbers. Hanging lanterns must be in pairs. People in China like even numbers. And whether it is hung on the gate or balcony, it must be 2, 6 and 8. Because as the saying goes, men can live a long and happy life. Some old people say that just hanging the list is easy to cause family disharmony. And the two lanterns should be kept at the same height and at a moderate distance. Generally, the position of lanterns is particular, one should not be far away and the other should be close.
3. Pay attention to symmetry and hang it on both sides of the gate.
Also pay attention to hanging south and not hanging north. In addition, lanterns are hung every Spring Festival. The important thing is that this year's lanterns will not be hung until next year. In ancient times, lanterns were generally destroyed by "touching lights", that is, lanterns collided with each other and were destroyed after catching fire. This is a unique practice of the ancients.
What decorations are hung at home during the Spring Festival? Post Spring Festival couplets.
It is said that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the post-Shu period about 1000 years ago, which is proved by history. In addition, according to the Jade Candle Collection and the Chronicle of Yanjing, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Fu Tao".
In ancient China mythology, it is said that all ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. They also write couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and good luck, and stick them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.
Make window decorations and paper cuts
Cutting window grilles is the most popular folk activity. There are all kinds of animal and plant stories here, such as plum blossoms of magpies, peach willows of swallows, peony of peacocks, rolling hydrangeas of lions, playing pearls of three sheep (Yang), playing pearls of two dragons, Toona sinensis of deer cranes (Liuhe Tongchun), longevity of five bats (Fu), moon-gazing of rhinoceros, Nianyu of Lotus (Lian) (the rest) and swimming of Yuanyang.
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In order to pray for the longevity of the family, people in some places still keep the habit of sticking up doors. Because the doors of China's house are usually two opposite doors, the door gods are always paired. After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill, heard ghosts screaming outside, and stayed up all night. So he asked the two generals to stand by with weapons in their hands, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the images of these two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread widely among the people.
New Year picture
Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year.
What decorations are hung at home during the Spring Festival?
It has always been a custom to paste Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve. Generally, couplets are posted on New Year's Eve morning, with a pair on the door and horizontal couplets up and down. As long as you put up couplets, you will enter the stage of Chinese New Year. Besides, what kind of zodiac is this year, stick grilles will be on the window, which is also very beautiful and festive.
New foot pads.
Foot pads will get dirty after a year's walk, so we should prepare a new and full Chinese New Year atmosphere. If you don't like the particularly gorgeous ones and think they get dirty easily, you can prepare crimson ones. There must be a mat, there are many guests. The foot pad is to prevent the dirt on the sole. The red foot pad is very nice.
Wall stickers.
Generally, wall stickers can be hung on the white wall above the TV or on the porch. This kind of New Year's wall sticker is generally made by acrylic, with many words. Home and everything are in line with the feeling of the New Year. If the back of the sofa is free, you can also hang it on the back of the sofa. Just choose a place, you don't have to post it all.
Hang Chinese knots.
Chinese knots are big and small, but they are all red, because red represents happiness, so no matter how complicated Chinese knots are hung in one place, such as hanging a Chinese knot next to the wardrobe or the place where clothes are hung on the porch, it symbolizes the new year and a new atmosphere, and it looks full of flavor.
Hang lanterns.
If you are really in the country, or have your own small house, you can hang red lanterns outside the gate these days, and the children will go out to play at night. Hanging lanterns will light up the way home, and at the same time add an ornament to the New Year, which is very festive and lively.
Melon plate
During the Chinese New Year, everyone will chat about their parents' problems while eating, so you can put some beautiful melon and fruit plates in the living room, with all kinds of fruits, oranges and bananas on them, and then put some melon seeds and sweets on them, which will look very interesting and pleasing to the eye.