The word size arrangement of Spring Festival couplets is basically symmetrical with the size of the door, and the general door does not need to choose long couplets; You can't stick short couplets on the gate.
General family couplets can choose seven-character couplets, eight-character couplets and nine-character couplets.
When posting couplets at the gates of institutions, units and schools, you can choose industry-specific couplets with more than 20 crosses.
It is more appropriate to choose couplets with more than a cross for construction sites, celebration meetings and other venues.
The second is to choose the appropriate Spring Festival couplets according to the requirements of the occasion and content.
Generally speaking, we should choose colorful, healthy, lively and cheerful words to express people's yearning and good wishes for the new year's life.
On the door of the old man, you can choose Spring Festival couplets, such as "Heaven increases longevity, spring is full of blessings", and years increase longevity.
If a baby is born at home, you can choose words such as field, rising sun, and flying high.
If there are newlyweds in the family, you can choose family harmony, two generations, beauty and other blessings.
If you have business at home, you can choose words such as wealth and prosperity and great achievements. The third is to choose the right horizontal batch.
Spring Festival couplets include the first couplet, the second couplet and the horizontal batch, otherwise it is not a complete Spring Festival couplets. Horizontal batch should be selected appropriately, usually four words. Horizontal batch is closely related to the content of up and down links, and has the function of summarizing or supplementing up and down links.
In addition, we should also pay attention to industry, occupation, identity, age, experience, occasions, hobbies and so on.
After the Spring Festival couplets are selected, don't post them immediately, but at the right time.
There are different opinions about the time of posting Spring Festival couplets: it is usually from the afternoon of New Year's Eve to the evening. On New Year's Eve, the ancients had a grand sacrificial ceremony, and posting Spring Festival couplets was one of the procedures.
Others think that the time to post Spring Festival couplets is between 6 am and noon on New Year's Eve 12.
There is also a saying that the best time to post Spring Festival couplets is the afternoon of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month (13 to 15).
This way, you can post couplets from 6 am to evening on New Year's Eve.
Sticking couplets can follow the basic formula: "People stand at the door with their right hands up and their left hands down". Stand facing the door, with the couplets on the right hand side; The bottom couplet is posted on the left hand side.
Choosing and posting appropriate Spring Festival couplets can add some festive colors and cultural atmosphere to your Spring Festival for reference only.