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Fai chun or chunlian is a traditional decoration that is frequently used during Chinese New Year.
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- Although they are damaged by wind and rain, they will still keep them up until replaced the following year.
- In remote or rural areas, people will not remove the old scrolls until the next New Year.
- There are rules not only for pasting the couplets, but also traditions for how to remove them, and these traditions vary in different areas of China.
- You can distinguish the upper and lower scrolls from the writing order of the horizontal scroll.
- The correct pasting order is: upper scroll → lower scroll → horizontal scroll.
- Usually, they should be pasted before New Year’s Eve, and the best time is between 13:00 and 15:00 on the 29th of lunar December.
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- There are requirements for both when to paste and the correct order.
- Pasting couplets is not an easy job.
- If the characters of the horizontal scroll are reversed, the two side scrolls should be read from right to left.
- If the four characters are written from left to right, the upper scroll will be on the left and the lower scroll on the right.
- Here is the way to read Spring Festival Couplets:First, look at the horizontal scroll.
- Sometimes people don't follow the rules, and they even make mistakes.
- The traditional couplets followed this rule, but things have changed.
- In the past, people were accustomed to writing in vertical lines from right to left.
- The order in traditional Chinese writing is different from that in western countries or modern China.
- This tradition continues today.
- In order to advocate and promote this cultural activity, he ordered all household to paste the scrolls during the Chinese New Year.
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- When the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang traveled for inspection, he found those pairs of scrolls interesting.
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- The custom became popular in Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644 AD).
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- During the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD), the wood board was replaced by paper, and people focused more on bright wishes for the future.
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- so they hung peach boards in front of the doors with the guards’ names written or inscribed on them.
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- People believed that peach trees can scare and subdue evil things,
- If the ghosts harm any people at night, the guards will kill them as the tiger’s breakfast.
- In front of the entrance of the dark world, there are two guards named Shentu and Yulei.
- According to the legend, in the ghost world, a rooster perching in a big peach tree will crow at dawn to call all the traveling ghosts back.
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- Spring Couplets originated from Taofu, an inscription on boards made from peach trees in the Zhou Dynasty (1046 - 256 BC).
- The horizontal scroll is a four-character phrase, which sums up the two lines’ meaning.
- The tone pattern is emphasized but rhythm is not important.
- There must be a one-to-one correspondence between the two lines.
- The two lines should have an equal number of characters, while their meaning must be related and antithetical.
- The first line (upper scroll) and the second line (lower scroll) have parallel structures and antithetical meanings.
- Pasting couplets expresses people’s delight in the festival and wishes for a better life in the coming year.
- With black or golden characters written on red paper, Spring Festival Couplets are composed of a pair of poetry lines vertically pasted on both sides of the front door and a four-character horizontal scroll affixed above the doorframe.
- What are Spring Festival Couplets?
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- This tradition is widely kept both in modern cities and rural areas of China.
- It is the most common and important custom when celebrating Chinese New Year.
- Spring Festival Couplets, Chunlian in Chinese, is also known as Spring Couplets or Chinese New Year Couplets.
- Besides being hung on door frames, chunlian are necessary items that are unfurled at the end of a dragon dance.
- Its content expresses the wishes of the homeowner for the upcoming year.
- Sometimes, concurrently, a horizontal scroll with four to five characters is hung on the crosspiece of the door.