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What does black characters on a red background say

Black lettering on a red background, looks stable and bright, suitable for formal or festive times, such as the Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door pairs", "couplets", is a type of red celebratory elements posted on New Year's Eve, "Nianhong". It is one of the types of red festive elements that are put up during the New Year. It is a unique form of literature in China, and is an important custom of Chinese people during the Chinese New Year. When people put up New Year's Red (Spring Festival couplets, lucky charms, window displays, etc.) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival has officially begun. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family will pick beautiful red spring couplets and stick them on their doors to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, adding to the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.