Chinese New Year is coming, when will the couplets be torn?

Question 1: When can I tear the couplets? Generally, it can be torn after the fifteenth day of New Year's Day, and it will stick all the time until the next year.

Question 2: What's wrong with disassembling couplets? This means that everything you choose can be discarded when it doesn't meet your wishes. So is the Spring Festival couplets. That's what it means to change your old character. If a person is getting married and the Spring Festival couplets are posted, the wedding couplets will not be posted? Spring Festival couplets, wedding couplets, add atmosphere for one purpose. It is the embodiment of people's wishful thinking. Couplets are a cultural phenomenon of China people. Can't be superstitious. Foreigners do not have this phenomenon, and their lives are also very good. Sticking couplets has nothing to do with quality. It's like setting off firecrackers The purpose is to set off the atmosphere.

Question 3: When will tearing couplets after the Chinese New Year not offend people? According to the law of folk custom, couplets are posted on New Year's Eve, and people can see them early on the first day. The couplets are well posted, and the first day represents the celebration and auspiciousness of the Spring Festival. Generally, the fifteenth day of the first month is still the year, and the sixteenth day is over. At this point, the role of couplets is over. If the couplets are blown off by the wind at this time, it doesn't matter if the children are naughty and tear them off. If the couplets at the main entrance and the second entrance are * * * in the sun, wind and rain, don't post them for a long time. When the couplets are yellow, discolored and curled, it will give people the feeling of being clumsy or uneducated. It can be removed in time after fading slightly; Couplets without sunshine and wind and rain can be posted for a long time.

Question 4: When do you tear up the wedding couplets? As long as it doesn't rot, you don't have to tear it.

You can wait until the next Spring Festival couplets or do other good things.

Question 5: When can I tear the couplets? Do you mean Spring Festival couplets? Theoretically, the first month is enough. However, most people are too lazy to move. Usually wait until the Spring Festival next year. Some people tear couplets because they are lost, broken and disabled, which is too ugly.

Question 6: When will the old couplets be torn off and the house cleaned on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month? Therefore, the old couplets can be torn up during the 24 th cleaning of the twelfth lunar month.

sweep the dust

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house. According to Lu Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels.

Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "Spring Signs" and "Door Pairs", are a unique literary form of the Han nationality, depicting beautiful images and expressing good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on their doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere. Traditional Spring Festival couplets are written with a brush, but there are also printed Spring Festival couplets. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, such as door to door and door to door.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Han nationality. Folk custom calls it "Spring Festival". That is, on the first day of the first month of the summer calendar every year, people don't sweep the floor, splash water outside, enter through the back door, beat and scold children, and congratulate each other on good luck and good luck in the New Year. Every family cooks jiaozi and other foods, which means happiness in the coming year.

After the 23 rd day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, after the sacrifice to the stove, people in the village are busy writing Spring Festival couplets to prepare for the New Year.

What are Spring Festival couplets? It is a kind of couplet written in red paper (also written in other colors). According to historical records, Spring Festival couplets evolved from the symbol of peach. Legend has it that there is a big peach tree in Dushuo Mountain in the ancient East China Sea, and its branches and leaves extend to the death gate in the northeast, where all ghosts enter. There are two immortals under the tree, one is called Tu and the other is called Tu. They often guard the ghost gate and watch the ghost's actions. If anyone is found guilty, tie it up with a rope and feed it to the tiger. Therefore, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people have carved the portraits of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on two mahogany boards every year to ward off evil spirits. This is the origin of the peach symbol. Wang Anshi's poem "January Day" said: "In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su. Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old ones. "

It started with Meng Changjun, the master of the later Shu Dynasty. Meng Changjun personally wrote "New Year's Qing Yu, No Festival A". Changchun. " It can be said that it is the earliest couplet in China.

The couplets posted during the Spring Festival are called "Spring Festival couplets". Spring Festival couplets also include "Spring Festival couplets" (single couplets), "Spring Talk" (a paragraph congratulating the Spring Festival) and "Doufang" (words written on a square paper). During the Spring Festival, colorful Spring Festival couplets are posted everywhere in the yard of every household, such as "Happy New Year and Happy Spring every year." (Banner: "The Earth is Spring") Spring articles such as Going Out to See Happiness, Greeting the DPRK and Reporting Peace on Bamboo. Fighting is to write a word "Fu" on a square piece of red paper. When posting, you should stick it backwards, taking its homophonic meaning of "Hongfu arrival". "Spring talk" is generally a congratulatory word or an encouraging language. For example, "filial piety comes first, all evils come first", "extravagance is hard to return to thrift."

The contents of Spring Festival couplets and Spring Festival couplets are rich and colorful. When posting, we should be tailored to local conditions and have a clear aim. For example, stick "Look up and see happiness" on the roof beam; Stick "22,000 gold coins" and "the way to make money" on the silver cabinet (figure 2 of the popular figure 1). Stick "rice noodles like mountains" on the jar; Stick "blessed land" and "longevity is better than Nanshan" on the old man's kang; Stick "strong body" and "less pregnant" on the bedside of young people; Post "Full Courtyard Brightness" and "Good Luck" on the courtyard; Post "Mules and Horses in Groups" and "Six Livestock are Safe" in the stable; Stick "bumper harvest every year" and "bumper harvest in five grains" on the granary; Post "Caution for Lighting" and "Fire Prevention" in the fire room; Stick a "bucket of gold a day" on the bucket; Stick "Travel thousands of miles a day and eight states at night" on the axle. Wait a minute. In short, the content should be targeted and make people happy and satisfied.

Send to god

February 24, 65438 is the day when "immortals from all walks of life" go to heaven to pay New Year's greetings. Therefore, on 23rd or 24th, animals were slaughtered and steamed in the whole Chaoshan countryside. Farewell to God is the custom of "Farewell to God". The custom of "sending God" began with sending "Kitchen God". Who is the kitchen god? Xu Shen's "Five Classics and Different Meanings" in the Eastern Han Dynasty said, "Zhuan Xu has a son named Li, who is Zhu Rong. The temperature is just right and he is worshipped as the kitchen god." It can be seen that the Kitchen God is the familiar Vulcan Zhu Rong. It is one of the five great sacrifices in ancient times. Book of rites? "Moon Order" Xia Meng's Moon Cloud: "His Emperor Yan Di, His God Zhu Rong ............................. >>

Question 7: When will the Lantern Festival be torn off after the back door?

Question 8: When do you usually paste the Spring Festival couplets and tear up the New Year's Eve stickers, and remove the previous year's ones?

Question 9: When do Spring Festival couplets usually open? Always trade new peaches for old ones. So next year's Spring Festival demolition.

Question 10: When should the Spring Festival couplets be posted before they can be torn off or removed? The time of posting Spring Festival couplets is different from that of posting Spring Festival couplets, and the time of picking Spring Festival couplets varies greatly from place to place. According to different local folk customs, there are three main types: year-round theory, festival theory and natural shedding theory.

All the year round. Spring Festival couplets are auspicious, so it is necessary to remove the "old" Spring Festival couplets and paste new ones in the coming year, which means to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and have a good year. In this whole year, if the Spring Festival couplets are damaged, they need to be repaired in time.

During the holidays. As one of the magic weapons to drive away the Year of the Animal, Spring Festival couplets can be picked after the Year of the Animal. According to different local folk customs, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month counts as the end of the year, and the Year of the Loong on the second day of February counts as the end of the year. With the development of the city, some localities and units, for the sake of city appearance and property management, demand to dismantle Spring Festival couplets during or after the Spring Festival holiday.

Natural shedding theory. The so-called natural falling off means that after the Spring Festival couplets are posted, no one cares, and the Spring Festival couplets are hit by wind and rain and naturally fall off. Or, when you see the Spring Festival couplets ruined by the wind and rain, just take them off.

Burn:

There is another saying about the Spring Festival couplets that have been picked, that is, to burn the old ones that have been picked, which means to burn all the bad luck.

There is a legend among the Han people: Spring Festival couplets are immortals in the sky. When they are burned, they will go to heaven to report the situation of the Han people to the Jade Emperor, hoping that the gods can bring good luck and other beautiful legends to the families of the Han people.

As the Spring Festival couplets are auspicious in folk customs, it is immoral to destroy (burn, tear, smear, etc.). ) Spring Festival couplets are casual.