Write an argumentative essay on Spring Festival Couplets and Couplets

Chinese New Year couplets are also called "door pair", "spring stickers", "couplets", "pairs", it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing good wishes, is a unique literary form in China. It is a unique form of literature in our country, which depicts the background of the times and expresses the good wishes in simple and exquisite words. Every Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, every family should select a large red couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere.

The Spring Festival folk custom of posting Spring Festival couplets started in the Song Dynasty and began to flourish in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, loved couplets and not only wrote them himself, but also encouraged his subordinates to write them. One New Year's Eve, he sent a decree: "Secretary of the family, the door must be added to a pair of spring couplets." On the first day of the first day of the emperor to go out on patrol, see the interplay of spring couplets feel very happy. When he traveled to a family, see no spring couplets on the door, then asked why. It turns out that the owner is a pig killer, is worried about finding someone to write spring scrolls. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately waved his pen and wrote down the Spring Festival couplet "Hands split the road of life and death, a knife to cut off the roots of right and wrong" and gave it to the family. From this story, we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang's strong advocacy of spring couplets, but also because of his strong advocacy, to promote the general prevalence of spring couplets.