What is the name posted on the door during the Spring Festival?

During the Spring Festival, those posted on the door are called Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers" and "door pairs". Every year during the Spring Festival, every household sticks red couplets on their doors, which adds to the festive atmosphere. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form of the Han nationality. There is no limit to the number of couplets, but they must be equal. The two sides of couplets should correspond. When people put couplets and blessings on their doorsteps, it means the official start of the Spring Festival.

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It is said that the "Wu Bihu" of Spring Festival couplets comes from the symbol of peach. According to the Book of Rites, 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." In the Five Dynasties, in the court of Western Shu, someone wrote couplets on peaches symbolizing repentance. In the Qing Dynasty, Yanjing Shi Sui Ji said: "Spring Festival couplets are also Fu Tao."

Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.