The traditional way to paste Spring Festival couplets is that when facing the gate, the upper couplet is on the right, the lower couplet is on the left, and the order of banners is from right to left.
The other is the commonly used paste method. After liberation, because the horizontal writing format was changed from left to right, Spring Festival couplets can also be hung left and right, and the order of banners is also from left to right, which is suitable for people's reading habits.
It is not appropriate to mix two Spring Festival couplets together. There are many people posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival, and there are also many people posting up and down couplets. So, how to arrange the order of the upper and lower couplets? First of all, we must distinguish the upper and lower heads of the door.
When facing the gate, the right hand direction is the top, and the left hand direction is the bottom. When pasting couplets, paste the first couplet and the second couplet.
The second is to distinguish the upper and lower couplets of Spring Festival couplets. Generally, there are four ways to distinguish: one is to divide by tone average.
Spring Festival couplets pay more attention to leveling. The last word of the first couplet is flat, and the last word of the second couplet should be flat. For example, "Qian Shan laughs at spring" ("laughter" is a derogatory term) and "happiness is enjoyed by everyone in the world" ("happiness" is a flat voice).
The second is based on causality. "Cause" is the upper part and "effect" is the lower part.
For example, "urban and rural wealth is in the right direction, policy is wise, and food and clothing are plentiful", because only the "cause" of "urban and rural wealth" will have the "fruit" of "food and clothing". The third is divided by time.
Time is the first part and time is the second part. For example, "the wind sends Ying Ge to bid farewell to the old year, and the snow companions welcome Mei to welcome the new year", and "bid farewell to the old year" comes first and "welcome the new year" comes last.
The fourth is divided by spatial scope. Generally speaking, the small one comes first and the big one comes last.
For example, "managing the family diligently, uniting and building the country, making the country prosperous and the people safe." The "country" in this pair of Spring Festival couplets is bigger than "home", so "home" comes first and "country" comes last.
Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival?
There are two legends here, one is the Spring Festival couplets, and the other is the door god. The keeper must be trying to scare away evil spirits. Hanging Spring Festival couplets is just to celebrate. 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 records of Jade Candle Collection and Yanjing Age, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Spring Festival couplets". There is a big peach tree covering three thousand miles on the mountain, and there is a golden rooster on the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, ghosts wandering at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The gate of the Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Taoshu District. There are two gods standing beside the gate, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu respectively. If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it and tie it up with a rope made of mang reed. They were sent to feed the tigers. Therefore, ghosts all over the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. So people carved their appearance with mahogany and put them at the door 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 ward off evil spirits. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, without losing any of them. Third, the decoration of the portal is beautiful. 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. In order to pray for the longevity of the family, people in some places still keep the habit of sticking to the door. It is said that sticking two door gods on the door will make all demons and ghosts afraid. In the folk, the door god is a symbol of justice and strength. The ancients believed that people with strange looks often had magical temperament and extraordinary skills. They are honest and kind, and it is their nature and responsibility to catch ghosts and demons. Zhong Kui, the highly regarded ghost hunter, is such a strange appearance. Therefore, the folk door gods are always glaring and ferocious, holding all kinds of traditional weapons in their hands, ready to fight with ghosts who dare to come to the door. Because the doors of China's houses are usually double-sided, they are always paired. Besides harmony, people also regard Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as door gods. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill and heard a ghost calling outside the door, which made him restless all night. So he asked the two generals to stand by and come to the door with weapons in their hands, and there was no ghost to catch the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the portraits of the two generals painted and posted on the door. This custom began to spread widely among the people. Spring Festival couplets, also known as couplets, spring stickers, couplets and couplets, depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. During the Spring Festival, every family should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets in urban and rural areas. Add festive atmosphere to the festival. Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao (rectangular red boards were hung on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty). According to the Book of Rites, Fu Tao is six inches long and three inches wide, and the words "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, every household made Fu Tao, a famous immortal wood, and all ghosts were afraid of it. "So, someone wrote a couplet on Fu Tao. According to Song Shu Shi Jia, Meng Chang, a master of the post-Shu Dynasty, once asked Zhang Xun, a bachelor, to write a poem on the mahogany board, "Because he was not working, he claimed to write a cloud:' Come in the New Year, celebrate the festive season'". This is China's first Spring Festival couplets. Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Fu Tao". There are "thousands of households" in Wang Anshi's poems. Fu Tao changed its name to Spring Festival couplets. In the Ming Dynasty, Chen wrote in "Miscellaneous Paintings in the Cloud Tower": "Spring Festival couplets stand in. Before New Year's Eve, it was suddenly announced that Spring Festival couplets would be added at the door of public officials' homes. "Zhu Yuanzhang not only went out of the city to watch the laughter in disguise, but also personally wrote Spring Festival couplets. He passed a house and saw that there was no sticker on the door. I didn't ask anyone to write it for me. Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote Spring Festival couplets for porcupines, which is "splitting the road of life and death with both hands and cutting off the root of right and wrong with one knife". This couplet is apt and humorous. After Ming Taizu's advocacy, it has become a custom ever since. The folk custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, loved couplets, not only wrote them himself, but also often encouraged his officials to write them. Be sure to add a pair of Spring Festival couplets to the door. " On New Year's Day, Mao traveled incognito and was very happy to see the Spring Festival couplets set each other off. He went to a house and saw that there were no Spring Festival couplets on the door, so he asked why. It turns out that the owner kills pigs, and he is worried that no one will write Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote down the Spring Festival couplets of "split the road of life and death with both hands and kill them all with one knife" and gave them to this family. It can be seen from this story that Zhu Yuanzhang was right. It promotes the popularity of Spring Festival couplets. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph The Story of Spring Festival couplets discusses the origin of Spring Festival couplets and the characteristics of various works. Spring Festival couplets had become a literary and artistic form at that time. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, horizontal bar and Spring Festival couplets according to the place of use. The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is posted on the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also called "door leaf", is a square diamond, which is often attached to furniture and screen walls. At the same time, every household should stick the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel of the house. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. According to the dream, "when you were young, sit down." "Scholars, big or small, should sweep the floor, remove dust, remove filth, clean the family, change the door gods, hang Zhong Xu, nail peaches, stick spring cards and worship ancestors." The word "Sticking Spring Card" in the article is the word "Fu" written on red paper. The word "fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", but in the past.
How to write a composition of couplets and blessings?
Can be written as the essence of exploration. First, the reasons for writing. When I was cleaning on New Year's Eve, I was called by my family to post couplets. I wrote about the process of posting Spring Festival couplets with my family and saw all the neighbors across the street posting them. Secondly, I found that the similarities and differences of each couplet this year are mostly auspicious words, and the word "fu" must be pasted backwards. Writing and searching. Adults said it, looked it up online, and wrote it in books. On the moral and blessing of Spring Festival couplets, you can also quote some famous couplets (there are some short stories about Spring Festival couplets, Zheng Banqiao, etc. ). Spring Festival couplets, called spring stickers in ancient times, are seasonal couplets written and posted during the Spring Festival every year, which can relate to China culture. Fourth, writing and thinking. In daily life, there are still many Spring Festival customs and habits full of China cultural connotations, such as New Year's Eve to food culture, Spring Festival to myths and legends, literary connotation and calligraphy spirit of Spring Festival couplets. Life lies in discovery, and the culture of China needs to develop. Nowadays, e-mails and short messages on mobile phones have triggered new ways to pay New Year greetings, and traditional greetings and cultures will be passed down in different forms in the electronic age. When old culture and new technology blend, we need to think hard and do more. We can also simply write a narrative: just write down the process of posting couplets and blessings. We can expand the saying that the blessing Spring Festival couplets were written by an old gentleman, and then talk about culture.
How to paste Spring Festival couplets correctly?
First of all, you should know which side to paste the couplets. Generally, couplets are posted on the right and on the left, but the specific side depends on the horizontal couplet and the side from which the horizontal couplet is posted.
The second is to know which couplet is the upper couplet and which couplet is the lower couplet. Generally speaking, I can write. If you don't write, remember that three or four tones in pinyin are falling, and flat refers to one or two tones, which is flat. If you don't write it, it should be on the first line, and the level should be on the second line.
Remember to post Spring Festival couplets, which means good and appropriate. For example, if you have money, choose Ping An Spring Festival couplets in a low-key way. If you are not very rich, you should make a fortune.
Remove the old Spring Festival couplets before pasting them, and then clean up the walls, so that the new Spring Festival couplets can be pasted for a long time.
Paste or glue should be used to paste the Spring Festival couplets. If it's tissue paper, wipe it less, or it will break. If it's paper-like, it should be smeared more, otherwise it will fall off easily.
Remember to stick it around the couplets at intervals, so as to ensure that the Spring Festival couplets will not fall off from the side and be more stable.
How to post Spring Festival couplets?
The correct way to paste Spring Festival couplets is usually to have two pairs of couplets, and the last word of each picture has the rhyme of flat, upper, curved and ruyi. The correct way to paste Spring Festival couplets is: Ping (the first and second notes of Chinese phonetic notation) on the left, Shang and Qu (the third and fourth notes of Chinese phonetic notation) on the right, such as.
Among them, the distinguishing method of entering tone characters is to pronounce them in Taiwanese, and the short and heavy ones are. So if the last words in the two pictures are both upper and lower sounds, you must pronounce them in Taiwanese to see if they are entering the tone! Let's cite a few examples: the days have increased people's life span (right). The spring is full of vigor and vitality. (left) Business is booming, financial resources are abundant in the four seas (right), reaching the fragrance of plum blossoms in the Sanjiang River (left), celebrating the Spring Festival (left), being blessed with peace and happiness (right), being full of gold and jade, (left) being rich in financial resources, and (right) the prosperity and revitalization of enriching people's industries.
Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival?
Hello! As far as I know, at the beginning of the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is coming. According to the traditional custom of our country, every household in urban and rural areas always puts up new Spring Festival couplets to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, hoping to spend a harmonious New Year's Eve and usher in a sweet and beautiful Spring Festival. It can be said that the Spring Festival is a unique traditional festival in China, while the Spring Festival couplets are a unique traditional culture in China. This is because the Spring Festival originated from China's long history and culture, and the Spring Festival couplets are accompanied by the annual Spring Festival. Enter the homes of ordinary people and integrate into people's social life and customs. The knowledge of ancient Spring Festival couplets in China can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, Spring Festival couplets were carved on wooden rafts or doorways, and some were carved on long bamboo pieces hanging from doorways. Later, they were printed with ink on thick silk belts (which northerners call covers) to decorate doorways. After China invented papermaking in ancient times, scholars wrote Spring Festival couplets on paper banners. Then people write it down in red paper and stick it on the door and in the hall. Some people call Spring Festival couplets couplets, but they are actually just a kind of couplets. Many couplets also include festive festivals such as congratulations on wedding, the completion of new houses, housewarming anniversaries and birthdays, as well as couplets such as elegiac couplets and filial piety couplets mourning the deceased relatives and friends. Spring Festival couplets are the most widely circulated, used and loved by people in China. They are associated with firecrackers and wedding banquets. It adds a bit of joy and auspiciousness to people's festive festivals. It should be said that the ancients studied the content and form of Spring Festival couplets. Because the format of Spring Festival couplets originated from China's classical poems, the original Spring Festival couplets required strict equivalence of words such as rhyme, that is, each word of the upper and lower couplets should be in a tone of yin and yang, and then written in calligraphy and ink with a well-organized technique. Therefore, the ancient literati regarded the Spring Festival couplets as a profound and elegant artistic creation. However, with the popularization of vernacular Chinese and popular culture, people have paid less attention to the strict principle of antithesis of poems pursued by the ancients, but a decent couplet should at least stress equivalence in the choice of words, that is, the number of words and the part of speech should be relative. According to the norms of modern Chinese, nouns, adjectives and verbs in couplets should be found. Numerals and other phrases are arranged orderly, at least the last word of each couplet should be even and even. If the last word of the couplet is generally flat (i.e. the third and fourth sounds of Chinese Pinyin), then the last word of the couplet should be flat (i.e. the first and second sounds of Chinese Pinyin). This should be the minimum requirement for creating couplets, otherwise it will not be called couplets, at least it is not standardized. While enjoying the pleasure, pay attention to the appreciation of the new Spring Festival couplets posted by various households. Choosing words carefully and appreciating the meaning of words can really be pleasing to the eye and edifying sentiment. If you have the heart to ponder and recite those wonderful couplets, it is tantamount to a unique artistic appreciation. Because when you see, read and evaluate those wonderful Spring Festival couplets, it is a useful attempt to improve the ability of art appreciation. I still remember a long time ago, the TV series Lian produced by Nanchang TV Station collected many wonderful couplets in ancient China, which can be described as "Jia's quatrains and witty remarks". It is said that when the new China was born, some people celebrated: "Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi, Nanning and Changchun. "However, a careful study is not very appropriate. Please look at the meaning of "Chongqing" as a verb in this couplet. The meanings of "Chengdu" and "Changchun" are not equal, and the last words of the couplet are flat. Strictly speaking, this couplet is a fly in the ointment! It is said that some people skillfully use eight place names in Jiangxi to make couplets: the newly built Shicheng Millennium, and the bronze drum forever. It pays attention to words, their meanings and relative sounds. This is a wonderful couplet. In my early years, I saw a pair of good Spring Festival couplets in Jingdezhen, the capital of porcelain: Sanyang Kaitai shines on the sun and the moon, and blue-and-white phoenix trees float in the spring and autumn. The combination of "Illuminating the Sun and Moon" and "Fragrant Spring and Autumn" is ingenious in words, meanings and sounds, which shows that the author of this combination is well versed in the combination of the ancients. I have a friend who graduated from the graduate school of a university the year before last with a master's degree in literature. He is good at poetry and painting. I remember going to his house once. There is a picture couplet inscribed by him: "Painting on the green branches outside the window, reading indoor black tea at night", which is poetic and picturesque. In the Spring Festival that year, he made a couplet to encourage himself: "Three years of cold windows swept the winter snow everywhere, and the spring breeze filled the sky. "Sanjiang is rich in financial resources, which is different from the ancient couplets followed and close to the modern couplets. Another example is the auspicious songs sung by dragons and phoenixes in the prosperous times, the bumper harvest of grains celebrates peace, the wealth enriches the people and the beauty, there are people everywhere in China, firecrackers say goodbye to the old year, and plum blossoms announce the new year. I still remember it clearly. Spring Festival couplets, as the name implies, are used for the Spring Festival, but other couplets can be used all year round. For example, the ancients sang Qiu Ge with poems and songs, Ran Ran made people old, and the scenery became autumn again. Today, someone sang autumn couplets, saying that the rainbow reflected pine and stood tall, and Wenfeng of the Golden Autumn Exhibition saw it. Another example is "Golden Monkey Rising with Thousands of Horses", and Yuyu clarifies Wan Li "; It shows the historical changes of that era. In retrospect, people still remember it clearly. Couplets are mostly five words and seven words, which are closely related to the five words and seven words derived from ancient poetry. Other couplets have six characters, eight characters and nine characters. In addition to the above examples, five-character couplets such as "Dapeng Gao Xiang Wan Li, Xiaolong takes off for a thousand years" (year of the snake Spring Festival couplets), "Golden Rooster flutters its wings and silver dog sings loudly" (Spring Festival couplets in the Year of the Dog) and other six-character couplets of "Woye Millennium"; Eight-character couplets are like "six animals are prosperous and thousands of people are happy, and the grain is abundant and colorful", and "the good news of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new travels thousands of miles".