Why do Han people put up couplets for Chinese New Year?

ring out the Old Year and ring in the New Year

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also a kind of inheritance of traditional culture. It can be traced back to the Song Dynasty at the earliest, and has been circulated among the people since the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Spring Festival couplets depict the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China, and it is also a way for us to stick Spring Festival couplets every year to inherit traditional customs.

Increase the festive atmosphere. During the Spring Festival, every household should write or buy a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on their doorstep. Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peaches. When we see Spring Festival couplets, we will all feel the strong flavor of the New Year. Therefore, posting Spring Festival couplets for the New Year also adds a very festive atmosphere to this important festival.

The earliest purpose of posting Spring Festival couplets was to ward off evil spirits and keep peace. The ancients believed that there were evil spirits in the New Year, and mahogany had the function of exorcism. The Book of Arts says, "Peach is the essence of five trees, so it suppresses evil spirits." Sticking a peach symbol on the door can protect the family. Now we stick Spring Festival couplets to express our good wishes and wish the whole family peace and happiness in the new year.