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Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets for the New Year?

Spring Festival couplets are a unique literary form in China and an important custom for China people to celebrate the New Year.

It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes in neat, concise and exquisite words. When people put up Spring Festival couplets (Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles, etc. ) At their doorstep, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicked off. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" every day when they were in beginning of spring, and later they gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets. It is said that this custom began in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty.