Notes and taboos of posting Spring Festival couplets. The Spring Festival is coming, and every household is laughing. During the Chinese New Year, every household will post Spring Festival couplets. However, if people make some taboos when posting Spring Festival couplets, that's not good. The following are the precautions and taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets.
Pay attention to avoid posting Spring Festival couplets. 1 The origin of Spring Festival couplets.
Spring Festival couplets first appeared in the Five Dynasties, when Meng Changjun, the late ruler of Shu, wrote "Spring Festival in Qing Yu celebrates Changchun", and the first Spring Festival couplets in China were officially born. But it was not widely circulated at that time, just the hobby of some educated talents.
It was not officially promoted until the Ming Dynasty. As for why it was popularized in the Ming Dynasty, it was mainly because Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, especially liked to write Spring Festival couplets, so he wanted to have fun with the people and ordered the people all over the country to hang Spring Festival couplets on their doors. Later, he also went to visit the people to see who had the best couplets, so an interesting thing happened. The thing is, when he passed a house, he found that the door of the house was empty.
So he knocked at the door and asked the master what was going on. The host replied reluctantly: "Because he is a butcher and has no education. And there is no suitable person to write for the time being, and it can only be temporarily vacant. " Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately took a pen and paper, and with a stroke of his hand, wrote "Split the road of life and death with both hands, and cut off right and wrong with one knife" and handed it to the butcher. Later, in the Qing Dynasty, the writing of Spring Festival couplets was formalized, which was discussed. Since then, Spring Festival couplets have gradually evolved into a literary and artistic form.
Three taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets
After understanding the origin of Spring Festival couplets, let's take a look at what are the stresses and taboos of posting Spring Festival couplets. First of all, the first taboo is that posting Spring Festival couplets must correspond to banners one by one. Although there are not as many Spring Festival couplets posted by the ancients in the present society, the most basic requirement is that people must be fluent in word order and meaning. For example, if your cross stitch is read from left to right, then your upper part is on the left and the lower part is on the right. Read from right to left and vice versa. Therefore, there is no fixed pasting method for the upper and lower couplet, depending on the position of the horizontal batch.
The second taboo is to pay attention to leveling when posting Spring Festival couplets. This is the basic requirement of couplets. Presumably, when we were students, the teacher told us that the format of each sentence in ancient poetry was elegant, and in fact, so was the couplet. Moreover, the upper and lower sentences of couplets and ancient poems should be consistent, and the last word of couplets should be enunciated and pronounced. The last word of the next couplet should be Pingsheng. Because this is well-known knowledge, you should pay attention when posting it. Avoid unintentional jokes.
The third taboo is that you can't post couplets for three years after someone dies in your family. This is mainly based on ancient customs. Generally speaking, in ancient times, family members should be filial for three years after their death, and there should be no entertainment activities. Therefore, in order to show respect for the deceased, wedding invitations naturally cannot be posted. Otherwise, others will think that this family is too fickle and it is not sad to die.
The moral of Spring Festival couplets
Finally, let's see what Spring Festival couplets mean to us. In fact, posting Spring Festival couplets is to express the beautiful expectation for the coming year and the joy of the festival. After all, what we in China pay most attention to is the beginning and the end, so a good beginning is particularly important to us.
In short, I hope everyone can have a basic understanding of Spring Festival couplets after reading the article and avoid some mistakes. In addition, I wish you all the best in the coming Lunar New Year, as written in the couplet, and your family is healthy!
Pay attention to avoid posting Spring Festival couplets. Pay attention to posting Spring Festival couplets.
First, the word "Fu" is pasted backwards.
According to the ancient book "Meng Liang Lu", "Scholars, big or small, should sweep the floor, clean the family, change the door gods, hang Zhong Kui, nail peaches, stick spring cards and worship their ancestors." The word "spring card" refers to the word "blessing". Many places are keen on putting the word "fu" upside down, in fact, this comes from an interesting story. According to legend, on the eve of the Spring Festival in Gongwangfu, Qing Dynasty, in order to please the master, the housekeeper wrote many words of "Fu" as usual, and asked the servants to stick them on the doors of warehouses and palaces. A servant can't read, so he mistakenly pasted the word "Fu" on the door. To this end, Prince Gong Fujin was very annoyed. At this time, the big housekeeper had a brainwave and knelt on the ground and said, "I often hear that Prince Gong has a long life, and now Dafu has really arrived, which is a good sign." Later, the custom of praying for blessings was passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, those who wish to be blessed in the coming year can put the word "Fu" upside down on the door and pray for happiness.
Second, the five elements use God to select couplets
The use of spirit in the five elements is an important point in the balance and adjustment of life. We can use God to increase fortune and improve many bad congenital fortunes. When we choose Spring Festival couplets, we can also choose the corresponding Spring Festival couplets according to the numerology of the householder, thus promoting wealth. Click to enter the Yi Qi eight-character "life chart" to see why you use God.
1, using God as water: it is advisable to use "Tai Chi Cheng Xiang", which can promote life and help good luck.
2, using God as wood: it is appropriate to use "Sanyang Kaitai", which can make life rich and help the icing on the cake.
3, using God as fire: it is appropriate to use "two external sources to generate wealth", which can generate wealth and contribute to the prosperous times.
4, using God as gold: it is appropriate to use "four elephants to offer Rui", which can make life rich and help you go out.
5. Use God as the soil: It is advisable to use "Five Blessingg", which can enrich life and help people to prosper.
Third, how to choose the color of Spring Festival couplets
In the market, all kinds of Spring Festival couplets are colorful and dazzling. Many people choose Spring Festival couplets according to their own preferences. In fact, from the perspective of numerology, if they choose according to their favorite gods, they can get the effect of helping fortune. Numerology, life likes to use God as gold and water, and you can buy Spring Festival couplets with golden background and black characters, all because black refers to water, metal gold and golden water, which makes you rich. People who use gods as fire can use red paper as the favorite color of Spring Festival couplets. Those who regard God as wood can choose Spring Festival couplets decorated with flowers and trees as lucky things.
Taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets
The first taboo is that the left and right couplets can't be mislabeled.
Spring Festival couplets are divided into left couplets and right couplets. If you stick it upside down, it's easy to be unsmooth. But in fact, because Spring Festival couplets are rolled together, sometimes I really don't know which one is on the left and which one is on the right. How can I tell?
The last word of each painting has a rhyme of flat, high, curved and entering tone. The correct pasting method is: the left side is flat (the first and second sounds of Chinese phonetic notation), and the right side is up, up (the third and fourth sounds of Chinese phonetic notation) and entering tone. That is, the left is the beginning, the right is the climax, the left is the bass, and the right is the treble.
The second taboo is that the time for posting Spring Festival couplets is on New Year's Eve morning, not earlier than 6 o'clock and not later than noon 12.
Before putting up the Spring Festival couplets, you have to tear up the old ones, so there is stress here. Because ancient people thought that the Spring Festival couplets were immortals in the sky, once they were torn off, the immortals would go to heaven and report the situation of this family. If you tear it early, the fairy will think that there is something wrong with this family; If it's too late, it's too late for the gods to bless.
Therefore, it is best to stick Spring Festival couplets between 6 am and noon on New Year's Eve 12, tearing up the old Spring Festival couplets, which means breaking bad luck and replacing the old cloth.
The third taboo is that some upside-down Spring Festival couplets are very learned and exquisite, and you can't mess around.
It is often seen that someone turns the word "fu" upside down, hoping for "happiness", and even turns the word "wealth" upside down, hoping for "wealth". However, not all places can be pasted upside down, otherwise, it is a big radish. Moreover, what you get is not "arrive", but more "pour light".
Folklore tells us that in ancient times, "Daofu" was just pasted on jars containing things, such as water jars and wine jars, which meant pouring out all the blessings in the jars to express the wish of happiness. Like the door at home or in public places, you can't paste the word "Fu" upside down, otherwise it will pour it out.
Don't post the blessing in the middle backwards.
The fourth taboo, the ancients thought odd numbers were auspicious and even numbers were unlucky.
In ancient times, numbers were very particular. For example, the number of pagodas is always odd, not even, usually seven or nine. It may be related to the singular reaching 9, because 9 is the largest number.
According to the ancients, posting Spring Festival couplets at the gate means putting odd numbers, which symbolizes good luck. In addition, don't just post the word "Spring" on your doorstep, you can post blessings, you can post wealth, and so on, because in ancient times, only Yee Justin would post the word "Spring" on your doorstep, which means buying and selling spring. Your family doesn't want to mean this.
The stress and taboo of posting Spring Festival couplets 3. Taboos of posting Spring Festival couplets
Taboo 1: The left and right couplets can't be pasted wrong.
The last word in the upper part must be an ending, and the lower part is an ending. When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people often put the upper and lower couplets in the wrong place, which is very bad. Pay attention to the last word as the key to distinguish the upper and lower couplets.
Taboo 2: The time to post Spring Festival couplets
It is best to stick Spring Festival couplets between 6 am and noon 12 on New Year's Eve, tearing up the old ones, which means breaking bad luck and exposing the old cloth.
Taboo 3: the word "fu" can't be posted casually.
When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people like to post the word' Fu', but not all of them have to be posted backwards. Pay attention to the word "Fu" on the gate. The word "Fu" on the gate means "Welcome to Fu" and "Accept Fu". The gate is the entrance and exit of the family and a solemn place. The word "fu" posted must be solemn and generous, so it must be posted correctly. The word "Fu" on the cupboard should be pasted backwards. A cupboard is a place to store things. The word "Fu" is posted backwards, which means that the good news (and wealth) will always come to the home, the house and the cupboard. However, under special circumstances, such as an accident at home during the year, people who wish to transship can reverse the word "fu" and use it for transshipment.
What's the point of posting Spring Festival couplets?
1, pay attention to the time of posting Spring Festival couplets.
Traditionally, the time for posting Spring Festival couplets is between 7: 00 and 12: 00 on New Year's Eve. There are Spring Festival couplets at this time, which is a legend of the gods in the sky. When the Spring Festival couplets are torn, they will report the situation of each household to the Jade Emperor, hoping that the gods can bring good luck to the folk families.
2, the upper and lower couplets are exquisite.
When people paste Spring Festival couplets, the key to the next couplet is the last word. The last word of the first couplet must be "Yi Sheng" (three or four tones in Putonghua), and the second couplet is "Ping Sheng" (one or two tones in Putonghua).
3. Pay attention to the number of words posted
Stick Spring Festival couplets on the door. The odd-numbered Spring Festival couplets are used to symbolize good luck.
The principle of posting Spring Festival couplets
(1) Time for posting Spring Festival couplets
Due to different local customs, the time for posting Spring Festival couplets is slightly different. As the saying goes: "Twenty-eight, applique", and in some local folk songs, "Twenty-nine, paste Spring Festival couplets upside down", which means that Spring Festival couplets are usually posted on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month.
(2) Post Spring Festival couplets
Traditionally, the first couplet of Spring Festival couplets should be posted on the right hand side (that is, the left side of the door), and the second couplet should be posted on the left hand side (that is, the right side of the door), and the horizontal batch is also read from right to left. Upper and lower couplets cannot be posted backwards. For example, "Hongmei is proud of winter snow; Green willows spit catkins to welcome the new year ",from the content point of view, the upper couplet and the lower couplet are progressive in order, and it is wrong to stick them backwards;" "Generally speaking, from the perspective of flat tone, the last word is three or four tones (that is, flat tone), which is the upper part, and the last word is one or two tones (flat tone), which is the lower part. Be careful not to paste it wrong and backwards.