Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets?

During the Spring Festival, other door decorations can be ignored, but we must stick a pair of selected Spring Festival couplets on the door to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival and also herald a good omen for the coming year.

Spring Festival couplets are also called couplets, spring stickers, couplets and couplets, which belong to one kind of couplets. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China.

Every Spring Festival, one source is the symbol of peach. At first, people cut mahogany into human-shaped boards and hung them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Later, they painted door gods on mahogany to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck. Later, the human figure was simplified to write the goalkeeper's name on the mahogany board. The color of mahogany is red, which means good luck and avoiding evil spirits, so most Spring Festival couplets are written in red paper. At first, Spring Festival couplets were carved on mahogany boards, and later rewritten on paper.

Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" every day in the early spring, and later gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets. This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved.