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Reporter Chen Yi / Taipei Report
Chinese New Year is coming next week! Many people started buying New Years items, while taking off old fabrics and buying new Spring Festival couplets to add aura to their homes.Actually, there are some taboos in publishing Spring Festival couplets that we take for granted. seated.Yang dengshengIt is noted that some people may post Spring Festival verses upside down on the door or post incorrect words, which can attract bad luck. Experts Explain the 8 Taboos of Sticking Spring Festival Couplets!
▲ The verses cannot be published casually. You learn the time, the number and the location of the publication, and the taboos are not lacking. Folklore experts recalled not posting “spring” on the door and not posting Spring Festival couplets backwards. (Photo by reporter Chen Yi)
◆ Don’t paste the wrong link
Usually there are three pieces of Spring Festival couplets, two of which are directly connected and one horizontal. If the last character of the straight couplet is a Chinese character, it is the top couplet. Flat sound is the end result. What are squatter characters? Shangsheng (the third tones of the phonetic notation of the national character), Qusheng (the fourth tones of the phonetic notation of the national character) and Rusheng (short tones) are all. What are flat tone characters? That is, the first tones and second tones of Chinese phonetic notation. For example: Tianzeng Years and People Zengshou (Zhe Sheng Shang Lian), Chun Man Qian Kun Fu Man Men (Ping Sheng X Lian). In case the final characters of the upper and lower Lian are found to be all flat (i.e. the first or second sound in Mandarin), choose the character that has a clear difference between Taiwanese and Mandarin sounds such as Qi Sheng. (short and heavy) like the top Lian. For example: “Yuan Yun Changlong Zeng Baifu” (Shangli), “Prosperity, rejuvenation and achievement” (below); “The gates welcome the fortune of spring, summer, autumn and winter” (Shanglian), “Hunan, East and West, North and South. Fortune” (bottom).
◆ There is no spring on the door
Don’t just post one on your front door“spring”Words, you can post “Fu”, “Search for riches and treasures”, etc. Because in ancient times,Only Yihongyuan (equivalent to a modern sensual place) will post “Spring” on the door, otherwise it will easily attract rotten peach blossoms.
◆ Spring Festival couplets are not backwards on the door
According to ancient rituals, “pour” and “to” are synonymous, and “cai” is glued backwards, which means “cai Dao”, but “cai” cannot be glued backwards on the door, which means pouring. wealth; The word “Fu” on the door should not be stuck upside down, otherwise the blessing will be spilled. Windows, interior doors or water tanks, wine tanks and other utensils can be glued upside down, representing wealth and blessing. In terms of popular customs, in ancient times, only water tanks, wine tanks and other storage tanks were glued with “pouring blessing”.Cause these words will turn right when they fall, Which means that the blessing cannot be poured out, expressing the desire for blessing.
◆ Singular only auspicious
Post the Spring Festival verses on the door, remember to post the odd number, becauseThe singular symbolizes the auspicious, the even number tends to attract YinLike the number of gods, it must be singular (Yang). It is not necessary to count the number of Spring Festival verses posted throughout the house.
◆ Time to publish Spring Festival verses
The best time to post Spring Festival verses is “between 6 am and 12 noon on New Year’s Eve.” This is the time when the sun is strongest. And after 12 noon, you have to worship your ancestors and founding masters, soNew Year’s Eve to publish Spring Festival verses before 12 noon is the most appropriate！
◆ You have to tear out the old couplets
After tearing off the old Spring Festival couplets, remember to break them, statingBesides the old and the newthe meaning of. Do not directly glue the new year’s couplet onto the old one.
◆ No bad luck words
Spring couplets should be individualized and should include your feelings, preferences, characteristics, and expectations of your own family. When writing Spring Festival verses, you should also pay attention to the fact that words like “destruction”, “absolute”, ” death “and” death “must never appear, andHomophones (homonyms), do not appear if the meaning is not good。
◆ Spring Festival verses are not allowed for funerals
Have at homeSpring Festival verses will not be published less than a year after the funeral.Otherwise, it appears to be celebrating. Don’t pack zongzi, which means “in the bag”: one by one, it would be terrible!
▲ Custom Folk ExpertYang dengsheng. (Image / photo data)
