The color of couplets is related to local folk customs. What you can usually see is red, which means welcome. In some places, there are white, yellow, purple, green and blue. For example, in Hubei, yellow represents missing relatives who have just passed away, purple-blue represents the second year of offering sacrifices to the deceased, and green represents the third year of offering sacrifices to the deceased. In some places, white represents missing relatives who have just passed away.

White-headed Spring Festival couplets are a kind of Spring Festival couplets with local characteristics, also called "White-fronted Spring Festival couplets". It is a traditional custom in China to paste Spring Festival couplets on people's doors during the New Year. For example, writing in black ink on red paper symbolizes good luck at home at the end of next year. But in Puxian area, people paste red paper for Spring Festival couplets with a white forehead of about 10 cm on it. Folk call it couplets, which began in the early Qing Dynasty.

The custom of sticking green couplets on Spring Festival couplets is very popular in Putian. It turns out that every household in Putian sticks green couplets on the second day of the first month, but it is a custom to stick red Spring Festival couplets on the fourth day of the first month. In the conflict between mourning for relatives and auspicious festivals, people choose a compromise method, that is, covering the newly posted green couplets with red Spring Festival couplets, revealing a section of the green couplets (about 10cm).

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Various colors play an important role in clever collocation, which can shape vivid visual images and reflect the characteristics of things, thus improving the profound connotation of couplets.

Classic color couplets:

1, Dan Xin holds the moon.

Bare-handed

Note: West Lake Tomb of Yuqian, Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

2, superb blue sky

Overlooking the world of mortals

Note: Pagoda on Anjialing Mountain in Yan 'an, Shaanxi.

3. Native to Huang Jinbao.

in vain

Note: Taizhuyuan Land Temple in Changyang, Hubei Province. There is a quantity of "my land is also".

4. Open the entrance to see the Yellow Sea

Sweep away the stone and pour Qingzun-Li Shenqi

Note: Yuan Xian Academy in Huangshan, Anhui. The gate faces the highest peak of Huangshan Mountain.

5. Dan Qingshan Waisi

Red and white flowers in the rain

Note: Nine Immortals Taoist Temple in Fuzhou, Fujian.

6. Baiyun Millennium Bone

Wan Qingshan Qing

Note: Barefoot Zuta on Baiyun Mountain southwest of Paobi Peak in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province.

7. Xuanhe Danshading

Decorated white jade temple

This is blue.

The lower bound is the world of mortals

Note: Gefanmen, Wuquanshan, Lanzhou, Gansu.

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