Who is left and right in the second couplet? Learn the knowledge of Spring Festival couplets and avoid making jokes regardless of left and right.

Citizens enjoy couplets at the scene.

Spring Festival couplets

The bottom line depends on the reading order of the horizontal batch, and cultural experts remind-

Learn the knowledge of Spring Festival couplets and avoid making jokes regardless of left and right.

Guangxi News Network-Contemporary Life News reporter Nong Wenzhi/map

Yesterday, Guangxi Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Propaganda Department of Nanning Municipal Committee, Nanning Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other units jointly held the activity of bringing literature and art into Wanjia Culture to benefit the people. Painters and painters from the literary and art circles 1 1 Association set up a stage in Jinhu Square to write Spring Festival couplets for the citizens free of charge in the cold wind and drizzle. As the Spring Festival approaches, this activity is welcomed by the general public. Despite the sudden drop in temperature, the event site was still crowded with people who came to ask for Spring Festival couplets. It is a traditional custom to post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival, but do you know how the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets came about? Which is on the left and which is on the right? There is a lot of knowledge in posting this Spring Festival couplets. If you post it wrong, you will be laughed at.

Spring Festival couplets have a long history.

The first one is from the Five Dynasties.

The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets has a long history. When did this custom begin?

Liu Dehong, executive vice chairman of Guangxi Calligraphers Association, said that according to legend, Spring Festival couplets originated from peach symbols, which were rectangular and hung on both sides of the gate to ward off evil spirits and pray. In the Five Dynasties, people in the court of Xishu began to write couplets on peach symbols, which was the earliest Spring Festival couplets. It is also recorded in the history books. According to Song Shi Shu Jia, Meng Chang, the master of Houshu, ordered the bachelor to write "New Year's Qing Yu, Jia Jie Changchun" on the mahogany, which is the first Spring Festival couplets in Chinese history.

The word "Spring Festival couplets" appeared in the early Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, liked lively scenes when he was emperor. On New Year's Day, I go out traveling incognito and like to comment on peaches posted at people's doors. When he saw what was well written, he also rewarded him on the spot and rewarded him with money. One year, in order to expand the custom of sticking peach symbols in the Spring Festival, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial edict, requiring people and families in Beijing to write Spring Festival couplets in red paper and stick them on doorframes to welcome the Spring Festival. Due to the admiration of the emperor and the joy of the people, this custom has been passed down from generation to generation and has been promoted to this day.

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Is the uplink on the left or right?

Horizontal approval has the final say.

Spring Festival couplets include upper couplet, lower couplet and horizontal batch. Yesterday, many citizens at the event had a question in their hearts: Should the upper couplet be posted on the left or right side of the gate?

According to Xie Pingxiang, vice president of Guangxi Traditional Culture Research Association, in ancient times, the habit of writing books and memorizing words was from right to left, as was the posting of Spring Festival couplets, with the upper part on the right facing the gate and the lower part on the left. However, with the development of modern culture, the evolution of customs and the change of people's reading habits, the habit of writing from left to right has gradually become the mainstream. In addition, influenced by western culture, China's traditional culture has gradually diversified. The current upper part can be posted on the right or left of the gate.

So, under what circumstances should we stick the top on the left side of the gate? Liu Dehong, executive vice-chairman of Guangxi Calligraphers Association, said that this should be decided by the horizontal examination and approval of Spring Festival couplets. If the reading order of the horizontal batch is from right to left, the upper part is posted on the right side facing the gate, and the lower part is posted on the left side; Horizontal batch, on the other hand, is read from left to right, so the upper part should be posted on the left side facing the gate and the lower part on the right side. In short, the first couplet of Spring Festival couplets should be posted on the side of the word "horizontal batch begins". Liu Dehong specially reminded that some Spring Festival couplets only have upper and lower couplets, and there is no horizontal approval. At this point, the upper couplet should be strictly posted on the right side of the gate, and the lower couplet should be posted on the left side.

Pay attention to creating your own Spring Festival couplets.

Be careful not to joke.

There is a joke about Spring Festival couplets among the people: once upon a time, there was a rich man who didn't have many words, but he loved to show off himself. One Spring Festival, he invited a local scholar to help create Spring Festival couplets to show off his achievements. Scholars have always hated the rich man for bullying the weak and the poor, so they wrote a pair of Spring Festival couplets, "The whole family is in the early afternoon." The word "raw" has no bottom, and the word "noon" stands for "cow". The scholar used Spring Festival couplets to ridicule the rich man's family as a cow, but the rich man with only a little knowledge was greatly satisfied after reading it, and repeatedly praised the scholar and said, "Children and grandchildren are full, and the whole family is in the early days." Good, good, well written. " The rich man is very proud. He entertained dignitaries to enjoy the Spring Festival couplets and boasted that he created them himself, which made him laugh.

Although this is only a folk story, it also shows that Spring Festival couplets, like other literary creations, have their own style and significance. Chen Jingkang, president of Guangxi Book Court, pointed out that Spring Festival couplets are not only the sustenance of people's blessing complex, but also reflect the cultural taste of this family. Many people like to create Spring Festival couplets according to their own life experiences and New Year's wishes. At this time, they should be a little particular.

Chen Jingkang said that the creation of Spring Festival couplets should pay attention to logic, the word order should be smooth, the front tone of each word should be flat and undulating, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets should be equal, and the corresponding words should have the same part of speech, so that they can be read flat and rhymed, scattered and undulating, and pleasing to the ear. Since ancient times, the writing of Spring Festival couplets is still dominated by brush, and there are also many printed handicrafts produced by factories in the market, which provide convenience and more choices for people. However, only the Spring Festival couplets handwritten with a brush have strong feelings, can express people's feelings and sincerity, and the fonts are also very rich.

In addition, the content of Spring Festival couplets represents the best wishes of the host, and it is best to be easy to understand and catchy, and avoid using uncommon words. When writing, it is best to use dignified official script, running script and regular script, and use cursive script as little as possible to avoid being misunderstood and causing trouble.