Twenty-eight decals. Have you pasted the Spring Festival couplets in the correct order?

Dahe Daily·Yu Video Reporter Liu Ruichao Photography Bai Zhoufeng

Twenty-eight, decal flower. Wang Anshi wrote in a poem: \”Thousands of households always replace old talismans with new peaches.\” During the Spring Festival, we have long stopped pasting peach charms. What we are familiar with is pasting Spring Festival couplets. \”Every year will be smooth sailing, and everything will go well every year.\” \”The door welcomes blessings in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and the household receives wealth from the east, west, south, and north.\”

The last word of the first line is oblique. The suffix of the second couplet is Ping tone

The style is different in ten miles, and the customs are different in hundreds of miles. The time for posting Spring Festival couplets also varies from place to place. In the reporter’s hometown of Zhongmu, Spring Festival couplets can be posted on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, but more people choose to post Spring Festival couplets on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month (or the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, which is the case when there is no thirty in the month).

Dahe Daily·Yu Video reporter noticed that many people have started to post Spring Festival couplets today. However, they consulted many readers and netizens about how to post Spring Festival couplets, how to distinguish the first and second couplets, It is not clear whether the first couplet is posted on the left or the right.

So, how to distinguish? How to post Spring Festival couplets? First of all, everyone must learn to distinguish the upper and lower couplets. The simplest and most practical way is to distinguish according to the tone of the last word in each couplet. The last character in the first line is in the oblique tone, and the last character in the second line is in the flat tone. The so-called oblique rise and level rise are traditional Chinese writing standards.

However, what is the flat tone and what is the oblique tone? There are four tones in ancient Chinese characters: flat tone, rising tone, falling tone, and entering tone. The three tones of rising, coming, and entering together are called oblique tones.

The tones of ancient Chinese characters include the flat tone, the rising tone, the falling tone, and the entering tone, collectively called the \”four tones\”. Among them, the three sounds of Shang, Lai and Ru are combined into the oblique sound. The entering tone is relatively unfamiliar to all of us. It makes a short sound and closes it immediately. With the development of the times, the entering tone has disappeared.

The \”out\” and \”in\” we often say today, including the \”bamboo\” of firecrackers, are oblique sounds. For example, \”the sun rises and the river flowers are redder than the fire.\” The pronunciation of \”out\” is not our current Yinping. The pronunciation of this sentence is \”廄仄平平廄仄\”. If you read and identify it according to the Yangping pronunciation of modern Chinese, you will find that it does not conform to Ping and Ze.

However, times have changed, the language and characters are also reforming and changing, and the pronunciation is also changing. The entering sound disappeared, and the flat sound was divided into Yinping and Yangping, so there are now Yinping, Yangping,There are four tones: ascending and descending.

How to distinguish the upper and lower couplets of Spring Festival couplets? To put it simply, they are Yinping and Yangping, that is, the first and second tones are flat tones, the upper and lower tones, that is, the third and fourth tones are oblique tones.

Take the couplets at the beginning of the article as an example: \”Every year will be smooth sailing and everything will go well every year.\” \”Good\” is an oblique tone; ,\” \”Beautiful\” is an oblique sound; \”The door welcomes blessings in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the household receives wealth from the east, west, south, and north.\” \”Fu\” in modern Chinese means Yangping, which is a flat tone, but in ancient Chinese, it is a Ru tone, which is an oblique tone, so it also conforms to the couplet. standard.

The traditional way of pasting is on the right side of the door. The second line is on the left side of the door

The next step is how to post it. This is the most critical thing. If you identify the upper and lower lines, but end up pasting them upside down, all your efforts have been wasted.

The posting method should be combined with the writing habits of the ancients. The writing order of the ancients was from right to left. When writing, the letters were written vertically in lines, from top to bottom. After a line was filled, the lines were changed to the left. Therefore, the first couplet should be posted on the right side of the door.

For some things that need to be written horizontally, such as plaques on doors, etc., they are also written from right to left, such as the \”Upright and Bright\” plaque in Qianqing Palace. The traditional way of writing horizontally in Spring Festival couplets is also from right to left. Written on the left.

However, most of the horizontal scrolls of Spring Festival couplets nowadays are written from left to right. Therefore, one explanation is that the posting position of the upper and lower couplets should follow the writing order of the horizontal batch.

As for how to post Spring Festival couplets, the official has not issued rigid regulations or unified standards. During the New Year, what you want is a festive atmosphere. As for these details, if you do them right, they are the icing on the cake. If you do them wrong, they are just unintentional mistakes and do not affect the overall situation.

In some cases, Spring Festival couplets cannot be posted Some Spring Festival couplets are purple

However, Spring Festival couplets are not required every year, and in some cases, not all Spring Festival couplets are white, and some are purple. >

This special situation is when someone in the family dies. According to traditional Chinese filial piety, couplets are generally not posted for three years, and then spring couplets are posted after the three-year filial piety period expires.

However, , the situation is different in different places. For some people, during the first Spring Festival after the death of a family member, burning paper is posted on the door; in the second and third years, purple Spring Festival couplets can be posted.

In addition, Spring Festival couplets are not necessarily posted on the door. on the car, such as the one posted on the car, \”日Traveling a thousand miles, walking eight hundred miles at night.\” This kind of exaggerated upper and lower couplets are sometimes affixed to pedal tricycles, expressing a wish in poetry. However, this kind of couplets are not horizontally commented.

Source: Dahe Daily·Yu Video Editor: Ge Liang