The handwritten Spring Festival couplets are the fragrance of the New Year on the tip of the pen. They are treasures passed down for thousands of years in folk customs. They are the blessings that are prosperous in the memory. These red smells of the New Year are also the backs of the ancestors passed down for thousands of years. The Spring Festival couplets are written on red paper. It is said that "Nian" is a ferocious beast that comes out to hurt people every New Year's Eve. However, "Nian" is afraid of the color red, so every family has to hang red things on their doors on New Year's Eve. And because Chinese people regard red as auspicious, there is a saying that red brings good luck. The Spring Festival is the most auspicious time, so use red paper to write Spring Festival couplets. So how much does it usually cost to write handwritten Spring Festival couplets? What are the particularities?


Vientiane is renewed to welcome Baifu, everything goes smoothly and Qianxiang is welcomed


Use red paper to write Spring Festival couplets to highlight the strong festive and festive atmosphere. The length and width of the red paper should be determined according to the length of the Spring Festival couplets and the size of the place where they are posted.


At the time of Xu, it is a night of fire, trees and silver flowers. Dogs are rich and well-clothed and can eat people.


Note: To commemorate the elders who have passed away during the year, you can write words of love and blessing on yellow or blue paper. But it depends on the local customs and habits. For example, in southern Anhui, when the elders of the family go to immortality, they will put blue couplets on them in the first year, yellow ones in the second year, and red spring couplets in the third year to show their filial piety. Families with taboos do not need to post Spring Festival couplets during the New Year.


Write in black or gold letters



The red Spring Festival couplets must be written with black or gold characters, so that they look grand. The handwritten Spring Festival couplets are filled with the fragrance of ink and are filled with auspiciousness.


Neat handwriting


Spring comes, brings longevity to the world, and welcomes the brilliance of family members

When writing Spring Festival couplets, attention should be paid to writing them vigorously and forcefully, with force penetrating the back of the paper, and with neat handwriting.

The content should be auspicious


As time goes by, people live longer, spring fills the universe, and happiness fills the door

When writing Spring Festival couplets, it is required to write popular, auspicious and festive words, and it is taboo to use indecent, unlucky, uncivilized words, words, and homophones. Be careful to use words appropriately and not be too exaggerated or exaggerated.

The number of characters in upper and lower couplets should be equal


The midnight bell brings good luck and firecrackers bring peace in the Year of the Dog

The most important thing to note when making Spring Festival couplets is that the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets should be equal. Not only should the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets be equal, but also the spacing between characters should be equal when writing, so that the Spring Couplets will look neat when pasted together. Avoid using ready-made clichés, big words, and empty words.

The upper and lower couplets have the same part of speech



The rooster has gone with each passing day, and the jade dog of Cathay Pacific and Minan has come.

The words corresponding to the upper couplet and the second couplet should have the same part of speech, function words to function words, and content words to content words.

Similar syntax of upper and lower couplets


Thousands of glasses of fine wine to celebrate a prosperous life and thousands of lanterns to celebrate the New Year

The upper and lower couplets should correspond to each other in structure, parallel to parallel, subject-predicate to subject-predicate, verb-object to verb-object, etc.

The rhythm of the upper and lower couplets corresponds


The new rooster announces the dawn of the moon and the auspicious dog opens the door

The beats of the upper and lower lines must be consistent, the rhythm must be detailed and symmetrical, monosyllables versus monosyllables, double syllables versus double syllables, multi-syllables versus multi-syllables, and it must be read catchy.

Harmony between oblique and oblique


The spring breeze brings prosperity and wealth, harmony brings auspiciousness and prosperity to the family

The upper and lower couplets have flat tones and oblique tones corresponding to each other. Spring couplets pay attention to the relative and harmonious harmony of levels and obliques, which means that the two opposite characters in the upper and lower couplets cannot both be flat or oblique, but one should be flat and the other oblique, which constitutes the musical beauty of the language.

The semantics of upper and lower couplets should not be repeated


Kyushu's auspicious energy welcomes the spring, and auspicious clouds from all over the world bring blessings

The corresponding characters and words in the upper and lower couplets have repetitive meanings, such as "China" versus "China".

Horizontal batches should be coordinated with couplets


Horizontal batches are closely related to the content of Spring Festival couplets, and classic horizontal batches can be the icing on the cake. A horizontal comment is the sublimation of the content of a Spring Festival couplet. It is the theme of the Spring Festival couplet and the finishing touch.


However, during the Chinese New Year, some stalls sell handwritten couplets, usually for 20 yuan. Some people charge extremely high prices, often several hundred yuan.