When can the Spring Festival couplets be withdrawn?

The Spring Festival is the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Most areas have the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets, so when is the best time to tear them up? Is it unlucky to tear up Spring Festival couplets? Let's see what has been said.

There are three best sayings about when to tear up Spring Festival couplets.

When is the best time to tear up Spring Festival couplets?

When to tear Spring Festival couplets, there are different customs in different places. In some places, the Spring Festival couplets can be torn after the first month, and in some places, they can be torn until the Spring Festival couplets are posted next year, or simply wait for the Spring Festival couplets to fall off naturally. Let's take a concrete look.

First, say all 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.

Second, the festival theory

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.

Third, the theory of natural shedding

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.

Is it unlucky to tear couplets?

No, tearing couplets is a sign to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so people have no scruples about tearing couplets.

The saying of tearing Spring Festival couplets is that anything you choose can be discarded as long as it doesn't meet your wishes, so you have no scruples about tearing Spring Festival couplets, but according to the folk saying, you can't tear Spring Festival couplets before the Spring Festival is over.

Generally, after the couplets are pasted, they will not be torn. If you tear it up, you have to wait until the fifteenth day of the first month, or when you put up new Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve next year. Couplets add a festive atmosphere. There is not so much need to exist after the holiday. #p# Subtitle #e#

Method for quickly tearing couplets

After a long time, it is not suitable to remove the couplets, so you need some props and some tips to tear up the old couplets easily.

Wet it all with water first, then dry it with a hair dryer, and then the paper can leave the wall. This is based on the principle that the hair dryer can harden the colloid.

One of the sources of Spring Festival couplets is Fu Tao. At first, people used it to ward off evil spirits. Later, the wooden statue of the goalkeeper was painted and hung on the mahogany beside the door, and then simplified to writing the name of the goalkeeper on the mahogany board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the Han working people to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck. Spring Festival couplets are commonly known as "appropriate", "spring stickers", "couplets" and "couplets".