How to stick to the couplet how to divide the right (couplet the correct paste method) _ Folk tradition

It's about when the face is turned back to the door.

Upper and lower points: The last word is Shang, Shang generally refers to three or four, such as "New Year Na Yuqing", the last word for ping Sheng is the next, generally one or two, such as "Festival Changchun."

Couplet Paste method: This should start from the position of advocating in ancient times. We in ancient China to "left" as a large position. Therefore, the couplet should be on the "left" side. This refers to the left, refers to the back of the backyards, to the position of the couplet to the standard. If you look at the position of the people as the standard, that is, the face of backyards, is the right. Here the couplet as the direction of the temporary said.

You see. Ming and Qing dynasties completed Beijing Forbidden City, the summer Palace of all couplet (door, column, window) are posted on the left side of the post, the right side of the joint. Many famous mountain temples, historical sites, temple temples and other couplets are also the same. The tradition of "left" as a large position has been in use ever since. It is now the seating arrangements for leaders at all levels of the major conferences are also ordered from left to right (the "left" and "right" in the direction of the newspaper) are based on the reader's perspective. We now paste the couplet should also follow this order: the upper side affixed to the left, the right side of the post. The last word in the Allied language mentioned here is Shang, and the last word of the Allied is ping Sheng. For example, "New Year na Yuqing, Spring Festival" in the "New Year Yuqing" is the Allied, "Festival Changchun" is the allied. There are individual tonal with the dual sentences from poems and articles, and there are exceptions. Jiangxi Nanchang Poetic, for example, has a pair of Mao Zedong in the calligraphy of the column of the "Xia and Gu mo full strength autumn Sky color", the position of the upper and lower is different: The last word for ping sheng "fall xia and Gu mo full strength" is the top, and the last word for Shang "Autumn Sky color" but for the allied. This pair of Shing is a pair of dual sentences in the famous "poetic preface" of Wangbo in Tang Dynasty. May be other people from the calligraphy of Mao Zedong to pick out the joint, may also be Mao Zedong himself from Wangbo masterpiece in the pick to do. Different However, also in poetic, there are all the other couplets are in ancient times "left" as a large position.

In fact, in the past people write things, first right behind the left, also this meaning. From the book's own direction, is from left to right. Reflects the ancient people's philosophy and moral concepts.

So according to the direction of the front door, the upper allied to the right.

See GUANGPI: Now many people have not been following the way of writing the past, but also from left to right to write. Therefore, the main view of the cross-linked. Look from the direction of the front door: If the cross is a modern way of writing from left to right. Couplet is also on the top of the left, the lower part of the right; if the cross is from right to left, the couplet is on the right and the other is on the left.

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First of all, what is a couplet? Couplets, also known as couplets, pairs, couplet, the sentence, and the equivalent of two pairs of sentences with each other: the first line (out of the sentence) and the second line (pairs). Its requirements are both "yes" and "joint". The word number is equal, the part of speech is quite, the structure is identical, the rhythm is consistent and the tonal is "right", "Lian" is to content related. A couplet of the upper and lower link between the content should be related, if the upper and lower joint write a mutually unrelated things, the two can not be through, echoes, it can not be counted as a qualified couplet, or even as a couplet.

After understanding the couplet, we see how the couplet should be pasted?
　　
Lunar New Year eat breakfast, I will be with the children to paste the Spring festival couplets, the child asked me how to paste? I said, first out of the upper and lower, and then on the top of the left, the lower part of the right, the child asked, how to divide up and down? I said, two straight, the last word pronunciation of three or four sound (that is, Shang) of the Allied, read one or two (that is, Ping Sheng) of the Union for the next line, just as I said to the children, the door and downstairs of the two neighbors are also affixed couplets, we paste well, because we have to give the flat of the doors and paste couplets, I went downstairs when the floor , they're not finished, two of them downstairs, club is on the top of the right, the allied in the left, GUANGPI is written from left to right, and I said just the opposite, the West is exactly the same as my home, but our three cross (also known as GUANGPI) are written from left to right.

So what exactly should be pasted to be more appropriate? How do most people stick to it? With such a question, the junior and the second two days walk in the street I noticed a look, although there is no specific statistics, but I found that Guangpi are written from left to right (not found from right to left), while the proportion of the larger or two straight, the top one in the left of the majority, while the upper-right, although not most but also a lot. So what is the best way to paste it?

This also has to understand the ancient writing habits, in ancient times, people's writing is from right to left, vertical writing, writing banners, but also from right to left, horizontal writing. Therefore, the couplets should be posted when you are facing the couplet, the allied on the right side, the lower side on the left, at this time GUANGPI of course also from right to left to write, horizontal writing. However, now the writing method is changed from left to right, horizontally written. So, now paste couplets, first look at tonal, and then see GUANGPI. Through tonal judgment on, after the Allied, will be posted on the GUANGPI first word side. such as: GUANGPI for "favorable weather" (from the left), the allied should be affixed to the left.

Through observation I also found that, now some of the couplets, two directly linked to the last word one is a sound, one is two, according to the current saying, no Shang, how to do? If the last word of the two is one or two, you must use the Taiwanese language to see if it is a tone word! The method of distinguishing the entering tone character is to use Taiwanese pronunciation, which is short and heavy. Use it as the allied.

It is not difficult to understand at this point, a doorway of the three-union, that is, a cross and two direct-linked to constitute a whole, in this whole, either are read from left to right (modern commonly used paste method), or all right-to-left reading (traditional paste method), which is all right, but if a doorway of three, Guangpi read from left to right, Two straight and right-to-left reading (traditional and modern paste method mixed with the method), is not uncoordinated it? should be inappropriate.
Above only for the personal point of view, would like to discuss with friends who have this interest.