Taboos for posting Spring Festival couplets?

1 Sticking Spring Festival couplets taboo Spring Festival couplets are also called "visiting". Every year on New Year's Eve (or 29), every household has the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets, whether in urban or rural areas. Couplets include door pairs, small door pairs and house pairs, and basically include upper and lower couplets and horizontal batches. Except in special circumstances, only horizontal approval is posted, which basically includes three parts. In rural areas, in addition to pasting the front door, single couplets are also pasted on the courtyard doors, kitchens, kang walls, pigsty, cowshed, mill and trees at important intersections to show good luck. In the past, the paste of Spring Festival couplets was often prepared by oneself, and water such as cassava flour or starch was added to make paste, which was used as adhesive after being stirred and cooked. Now that living conditions are good, most people choose a simpler way and stick it with double-sided adhesive or transparent adhesive. Spring Festival couplets represent the elements of festive atmosphere. In the earliest period, the appearance of couplets was only the hobby of some literati. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that a cultural ceremony matching the door gods was gradually formed, which had the meanings of keeping peace, blessing, exorcising evil spirits and exorcising ghosts. Nowadays, posting Spring Festival couplets has become a custom activity of China people for the New Year. However, posting Spring Festival couplets also has many taboo customs. For example, people pay attention to Spring Festival couplets, and the upper and lower couplets can't be pasted wrong, otherwise it may be "bad time". There is also the need to pay attention when posting Spring Festival couplets. The best time is 6: 00 am on New Year's Eve-12. Tear up the old Spring Festival couplets and paste new ones, that is, remove the old ones and make new ones. If someone in the family dies, yellow couplets will be posted on New Year's Day instead of red couplets, blue couplets will be posted in the second year and red couplets will be posted in the third year. You can't break things. Spring Festival is the beginning of a new year. People think that accidentally breaking things during the Spring Festival will ruin the luck of the New Year, so breaking things during the Spring Festival is particularly taboo. Therefore, before the Spring Festival, adults will always remind you to take things steadily and never break bowls, cups and other items to avoid bad luck (to avoid "bankruptcy"). If you accidentally break something, you should say "broken (old) broken (old) peace" quickly, sweep it quietly, and then set off firecrackers to pray for peace and good luck. Avoid sweeping the floor and taking out the garbage. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will carry out a clean-up before the Spring Festival, sweeping out all the dirty things of the year, meaning to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. You can't sweep the floor and take out the garbage after the New Year's Day, because the Spring Festival emphasizes gathering wealth. According to legend, the first day of the first month is broom festival. Moving a broom on this day will attract a jinx, sweep away the fortune and good luck of the year and bring bad luck. Therefore, it is forbidden to sweep the floor and take out the garbage during the Spring Festival. In some places, it is impossible to take out the garbage on New Year's Eve. It is said that on this day, taking out garbage and throwing things at will may splash dirty things and sewage on the gods, thus angering them and incurring punishment. During the Spring Festival, even if the trash can is full, it can't be poured out. If you don't want to sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside in order to avoid losing money. No swearing, no quarreling, no swearing, no good words during the Chinese New Year. If you are lucky, say something nice even if you are not. Don't swear, don't swear, don't quarrel, don't hit people ... Otherwise, it will not only destroy the peaceful, festive and reunion atmosphere of the Spring Festival, but also be heard by the gods, which may be a disaster. In addition, it is forbidden to scold children and call them by their nicknames loudly, otherwise wandering souls will hear them and bring bad luck. In addition, people believe that children who are scolded at the beginning of the new year will be scolded for a whole year. It is forbidden to marry a woman on the first day of the first month, so she can't go back to her parents' house on the first day of the first month, because there is a folk saying that parents will eat poor on the first day of the first month. On the second or third day of the first month, you can go back to your mother's house, and your married daughter can go back to her mother's house with her husband, which is commonly known as "husband-welcoming day". On this day, the daughter who goes back to her parents' house will bring some New Year gifts and red envelopes to her children. The gifts should be in pairs. The bride's family can't accept all of it, and the daughter will bring some back when she goes back to her husband's house. When going back to her parents' house, the married daughter can have lunch at her parents' house, but not dinner at her parents' house, so she needs to go back to her husband's house before dinner. It is forbidden to collect debts from others. As the saying goes, "it is easier to borrow money than to pay it back." For creditors, the most feared thing is to meet borrowers who don't pay attention to credit and principles, lend money out and finally can't get it back. For borrowers, the happiest thing is the arrival of the New Year after the first day of the Lunar New Year, because it is taboo to ask for debts from others during the Spring Festival. In the folk, creditors often collect debts from borrowers before New Year's Eve, because they can't collect debts from borrowers on the first day of New Year's Eve. According to legend, this is because after the first day of the first month, the god of wealth will "send money" to every household, and decide how much money to give according to the economic situation of different families. If the creditor still asks the borrower for debts on New Year's Day, the God of Wealth will think that the creditor is rich and someone owes him money, so he will be given less wealth. Of course, this is just folklore. From an objective and practical point of view, this is probably based on a kind of humanistic care. Because the Spring Festival is a festive, lively and auspicious day, if you come to collect debts during the Spring Festival, it will inevitably make both sides unhappy, thus affecting each other's mood for the New Year.