The top, bottom and entering sounds are the upper part, and the flat sound is the lower part. There are exceptions, such as Mao Zedong's "Lonely Sunset in Qi Fei, Autumn Water * * * One Color", which ends with a dull voice and a silent voice.
Red Spring Festival couplets express the hope for the new year, and set off a strong festive atmosphere. They are an important carrier to express traditional culture in the form of folk art, and there are many stresses on pasting Spring Festival couplets. If you don't stick to them properly, you will be laughed at.
The traditional way to paste Spring Festival couplets is that when facing the gate, the upper couplet is on the right, the lower couplet is on the left, and the order of banners is from right to left. The other is the commonly used paste method. After liberation, because the horizontal writing format was changed from left to right, Spring Festival couplets can also be hung left and right, and the order of banners is also from left to right, which is suitable for people's reading habits. It is not good to mix two Spring Festival couplets together.
The number of words in the upper and lower couplets should be equal. For example: "The Spring Festival is rich every year, good years and peace, and step by step." This pair of Spring Festival couplets has seven words each, and the number of words in the upper and lower couplets is equal, which is the most basic requirement of Spring Festival couplets. But there are other phenomena. 19 16 After the death of Yuan Shikai, the national people rushed to tell each other, rejoicing and dancing. A scholar in Sichuan claimed to go to Beijing to send Yuan Shikai an elegiac couplet.