What is the meaning of posting Spring Festival couplets?

Sticking Spring Festival couplets symbolizes good wishes for people's lives, which is China's literary form.

It depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. Spring Festival couplets are a kind of couplets and a unique literary form. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

It expresses the good wishes of the working people of the Han nationality to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

The year is approaching, and there are many Chinese New Year customs. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is one of them. Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets are commonly known as "door couplets", "spring stickers", "couplets" and "couplets". The festive red couplets posted on the door are a kind of couplets and should be posted during the Spring Festival, so one source of Spring Festival couplets is Fu Tao.

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Post the legend of Spring Festival couplets:

Spring Festival couplets were originally called "Fu Tao" instead of "Spring Festival couplets". It is said that pasting Fu Tao originated very early. At that time, people posted "Fu Tao" to drive away monsters.

Legend has it that there was an extremely fierce monster in ancient times, which often did evil and endangered the people, but nothing could stop it. Later, two immortals who specialized in exorcism stopped the monster with peach branches.

As a result, it was circulated among the people that I was told to hang peach branches engraved with the names of two immortals on the door, and the monsters were afraid to go forward. Later, this kind of peach branch was called "peach symbol" and "peach symbol" became popular.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Fu Tao evolved into Spring Festival couplets. According to records, Meng Changjun, the master of Houshu, once asked Zhang Xun to write an inscription on the mahogany. After he finished writing, Meng Chang felt something was wrong.

Then he wrote: "New Year's Qing Yu, Festival Changchun", which was the first Spring Festival couplets in China, and was also called the symbol of peach at that time.

Later, with the appearance of paper, mahogany was replaced by red paper. The Spring Festival couplets really appeared in the period of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang asked every household to post Spring Festival couplets, so the streets and alleys were covered with Spring Festival couplets.

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