What are the rules for hanging lanterns during the Spring Festival?

What are the rules for hanging lanterns during the Spring Festival?
The Spring Festival is a festive day. Many people put up Spring Festival couplets and hang big red lanterns at home. So, what is the meaning and meaning of hanging lanterns during the Spring Festival? You need to pay attention to some taboos during the Spring Festival. Next, go to the 2018 Spring Festival special topic specially compiled by the Fortune Teller website for you to learn more about it! Hanging red lanterns during the Chinese New Year is to welcome the prosperous New Year atmosphere, and it also has some auspicious folk meanings. Therefore, we must know the etiquette and auspicious meanings of hanging red lanterns during the Chinese New Year.
The purpose of hanging red lanterns during the Spring Festival is to welcome the arrival of the New Year and have a prosperous and auspicious year.
The second meaning of hanging red lanterns during the Chinese New Year is to welcome good fortune and luck in the next year. New Year's Eve marks the end of two years, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. Red lanterns are hung high above the head, and people walk under the lanterns. Looking up at the lanterns, they are in for good luck, which means we will have good luck in the new year.
The third meaning of hanging red lanterns during the Chinese New Year is that "lantern" and "ding" are homophones of "ding". Another meaning of hanging red lanterns is that the family will be prosperous and the family will be prosperous. There are some necessary considerations when hanging red lanterns, and everyone must pay attention to this, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
Pay attention to one and even numbers. The number of red lanterns hung must be even, whether hung on both sides of the door or on the balcony, must be calculated in even numbers, such as two, six, eight, etc.
Second, pay attention to symmetry. Red lanterns must be hung symmetrically, with appropriate height and distance.
The third rule is to hang it in the south, not in the north. Red lanterns need to be hung on the south, east or west, but hanging them on the north is taboo. Not only will it fail to bring the auspicious meaning mentioned above, but it will also harm good luck due to the water in the north.
The fourth thing to pay attention to is touching the lantern. The so-called "touching lanterns" means destroying the lanterns. After the Little New Year (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), the lanterns should be taken down and cannot be kept for use in the next year but should be destroyed. In the past, candles were lit in lanterns, and after the Little New Year, two lanterns would collide with each other, which was called "touching lanterns." Nowadays, all lanterns are electric lights, so there is no need to touch the lights, but you still need to put the lanterns away, put them in a clean garbage bag, and then discard them.

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