Do you write couplets from right to left or from left to right?

Whether the horizontal batch is written from left to right or from right to left does not affect the position of the upper and lower couplet. In June 1 955,65438+1 0/,Guangming Daily began to write horizontally from left to right, and in June1956,65438+10/,People's Daily also started from left. But until now, if you write words from top to bottom, the line order is still from right to left, and there is no change. The upper and lower couplets are the main body, and the horizontal batch is subsidiary and secondary. The order of reading couplets is to read the upper and lower couplets first, and then read the horizontal batch. Most of the time, couplet Lian Heng is not! It is a logical order to decide whether the upper and lower couplet is posted left or right. Sit inside and look outside. The left hand is the most important, followed by the right hand. This order is the same in many occasions, not just the order of posting couplets. Taking the left and right order of the cross-section text as a reference, people who don't understand couplets will also be confused: where to start reading couplets without cross-section? In fact, modern typesetting rules have changed the horizontal layout from left to right, but the vertical layout is still from right to left! Banners, newspapers, wreaths and famous brands hung by government agencies and units. , must be sorted from right to left. Can couplets be an exception? The inscriptions of contemporary great men are written horizontally and vertically, and the order of ascending and descending must be from right to left. Just like the arrangement of leadership positions on the rostrum, there are norms. In Japanese, Singaporean and other countries where Chinese characters are used, as well as China, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau, when typesetting or vertical writing, the line order is from right to left. Respecting the left first involves not only many traditional cultures in China, but also contemporary etiquette norms.

Therefore, regardless of the order of cross-batch couplets, couplets are posted in the traditional way, with the upper couplet posted on the right and the lower couplet posted on the left.