Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets for the New Year? Sweep the dust, and the origin of the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as door pairs. Every Spring Festival, every household sticks red couplets on their doors, which adds to the festive atmosphere.

Spring Festival couplets originated from ancient peach symbols. Fu Tao is a rectangular red board hanging on both sides of the gate. Write the names "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" on it to ward off evil spirits. During the Spring Festival, people always replace the old ones with new ones. Wang Anshi's poem "Thousands of households always get rid of old peaches for new ones" is about this.

Spring Festival couplets began in the Five Dynasties. In 964 AD, Meng Changjun, the late ruler of Shu, first asked the bachelor Xin to write an inscription on the peach board, but he thought his writing was unstable, so he wrote "New Year, Festival Promise". "Changchun by himself. Since then, carving peach characters has evolved into writing Spring Festival couplets. Later, due to the mass production of paper, people gradually replaced red boards with paper. This is the beginning of posting Spring Festival couplets.

The popularity of Spring Festival couplets prevailed in the Ming Dynasty. According to Miscellanies of Mao Yunlou, "Spring Festival couplets began in Ming Taizu. Jinling, the imperial capital, suddenly issued a decree on New Year's Eve, and a pair of Spring Festival couplets must be posted on the doors of officials and scholars. Mao Wei walked out of sight and thought he was laughing. " Moreover, he also wrote Spring Festival couplets for princes and ministers. The couplet for Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, is: "Breaking the Lu and being a savage, the merit is the first in ancient and modern times; When you go out, you will go to chinese odyssey. " The couplet given to Tao An is: "The national dynasty is unparalleled, and the article from Hanyuan is the first." Due to the practice of the emperor, the love of literati and the spread of the masses, Spring Festival couplets have been handed down as a custom.

We call the red Spring Festival couplets posted on the two sides of the gate, the middle door and the window "couplets". Some people will write their own couplets, while others will buy them. The antithesis in the Spring Festival couplets is auspicious.

Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao. "Fu Tao" is a rectangular red wooden board hanging on both sides of the door in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of Etiquette in the Later Han Dynasty, the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the words "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, I made a peach symbol for this family and named it Xianmu. All ghosts are afraid of it." Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "Spring Festival couplets, that is, Fu Tao."

In the Five Dynasties, in the court of West Shu, someone wrote couplets on peach symbols. According to the records in the History of Song Dynasty and the Family History of Shu, Meng Chang, the master of the latter Shu Dynasty, ordered Zhang Xun, a bachelor, to write a poem about mahogany boards, which said, "This is not a job, so he pretended to write a poem about mahogany boards:' It's the New Year, and this is China's first Spring Festival couplets.' . Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Fu Tao". There is a saying in Wang Anshi's poem that "thousands of households are the narrowest, and new peaches are always replaced with old ones". In the Song Dynasty, the peach symbol was changed from mahogany board to paper, which was called "Spring Sticker".

In the Ming Dynasty, Fu Tao changed its name to "Spring Festival couplets". In the Ming Dynasty, Chen wrote in Mao Yunlou's Miscellaneous Paintings: "The creation of Spring Festival couplets began with. Jinling, the imperial capital, suddenly issued a decree before New Year's Eve: Spring Festival couplets must be posted at the gates of public officials and scholars' homes. "Zhu Yuanzhang not only went out of the city incognito to see the laughter in person, but also personally wrote Spring Festival couplets. He passed a house and saw that the Spring Festival couplets had not been posted on the door. He went to ask, knowing that it was a castrated pig, and had not asked anyone to write it for him. Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote Spring Festival couplets for the castrated pig man, which read "Split the road of life and death with both hands and cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife". Relevance and humor. After Ming Taizu's advocacy, Spring Festival couplets have since become a custom, which has been passed down to this day.

Such as the sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds and the clouds, and the harmony between heaven and earth, such as the spring tide and rain. Before the arrival of spring, families often use couplets to show their identity. For example, the official couplet reads "Celebrate the National Day, live a long life"; The home of learning Confucianism is that "poetry and books will continue to grow"; The couplet of the merchant's family is "Faithfulness and Faithfulness for a Long Time", while that of the merchant's family is "Business is booming all over the world, and financial resources are flourishing up to three rivers".

There is the word "horizontal batch" in the Central Committee of the couplet, and there are several "hanging money" under the horizontal batch. On the door or wall of the room, the metropolis sticks a diamond-shaped "fighting square". Generally speaking, the words "Fu" and "Chun" are the most frequently posted words. Some people will intentionally put the words "Fu" and "Chun" upside down, because it symbolizes "Fu arrives" and "Chun arrives".

Some people not only paste Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate, but also paste portraits of door gods on the left and right sides of the gate. Spring Festival couplets posted on New Year's Eve will remain until they naturally fall off or fade. agree

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