Can I post Spring Festival couplets on the 28th?

On the 28th, you can post Spring Festival couplets.

“On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and steamed buns with decals and flowers.” On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, in addition to making dough, steaming steamed buns and steaming rice cakes, you also need to “decal flowers”, that is, pasting New Year pictures and spring couplets. and window grilles.

The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Peach Talisman". In the Han Dynasty, peach blossoms and peach trees were used to protect against ghosts. Therefore, peach wood has the effect of warding off evil spirits. On both sides of the door, the two gods Shen Tu and Yu Lei are painted on the peach wood, which is the original origin of Spring Festival couplets.

In the Five Dynasties, Meng Chang, the monarch of Later Shu, was fond of literature. He ordered people to inscribe peach symbols every year, which became the Spring Festival couplets for later generations. "The New Year brings Yuqing, and the Festival is called Changchun" is the first "Spring Festival couplet" recorded in Chinese history.

How to paste Spring Festival couplets

The red Spring Festival couplets express one’s hopes for the new year and set off a strong festive atmosphere. They are an important carrier of traditional culture in the form of folk art. . There are also many things to pay attention to when posting Spring Festival couplets. If you post them improperly, you will be laughed at.

The traditional method of pasting Spring Festival couplets is that when facing the door, the upper couplet is on the right, the lower couplet is on the left, and the text on the banner is in order from right to left. The other is the commonly used sticking method. After liberation, since the horizontal writing format changed from left to right, the top couplet can also be placed on the left and the bottom couplet on the right. The order of the banners is also from left to right, which is suitable for people's reading habits. It would not be good if the two Spring Festival couplet pasting methods are "mixed".