The origin of Spring Festival couplets, and the relationship between Spring Festival couplets and traditional culture is what oh? The urgent .......

Chinese New Year couplets are also called "door pair", "spring stickers", "couplets", "for", it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing good wishes, is a unique form of literature in China. It is a unique form of literature in China, which depicts the background of the times and expresses the good wishes with neat, 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 began 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 on a tour, see the interplay of spring couplets feel very happy. When he traveled to a house, see the door no spring couplets, they asked why.

Originally, the owner is a pig killer, is worried about not finding someone to write spring scrolls. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately penned down "hands split the road of life and death, a knife to cut off the root of right and wrong" of the Spring Festival couplets given to the family. From this story, we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang strongly advocated the Spring Festival couplets, and it was precisely because of his strong advocacy that the Spring Festival couplets were widely popular.

During the Qing Dynasty, the ideology and artistry of spring couplets were greatly improved, and Liang Zhangrui's monograph on spring couplets, "Threshold Couplets", discussed the origins of the couplets and the characteristics of each type of work. Spring couplets had become a form of literary art at that time.

There are many kinds of spring couplets, which can be divided into door centers, frame pairs, horizontal pi, spring strips, and doufangs according to their places of use. "Door heart" on the upper center of the door panel; "frame" on the left and right door frames; "horizontal phi" on the horizontal wood of the door winks; "spring strips "according to different contents, posted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also called" door leaf "for the square diamond, more in the furniture, shadow wall.

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The Spring Festival, in the minds of our people is the first and most important traditional festival of the lunar year. When the Spring Festival comes, thousands of families write and post Spring Festival couplets, which is a national custom handed down for thousands of years to symbolize good luck and express people's aspirations for a beautiful life. It is unique in the world. According to the words of Mr. Zhou Ruchang, a master of contemporary art, "Spring Festival couplets are the greatest and most magnificent literary and artistic activities that have no parallel in the world."

As early as the Warring States period, more than 2,000 years ago, the Spring Festival in the Central Plains was characterized by the hanging of "peach stalks," also known as "peach symbols. The Qing Dynasty Fucha Duncan Chong "Yanjing times - Spring Festival" records: "Spring Festival, that is, the peach runes also. Since the wax, that is, there are writers and ink masters, in the marketplace under the eaves of writing spring couplets, in order to run the pen, after the sacrificial stove, it is gradual sticky hanging, thousands of doors and tens of thousands of households, a new look." From the traditional Spring Festival couplets "firecrackers to get rid of the old; peach symbols of ten thousand images of renewal" and Song Wang Anshi poem "thousands of doors and tens of thousands of households block day, always put the new peach for the old symbols", but also see the relationship between the Spring Festival couplets and peach symbols.

What is a peach symbol? According to "Huainanzi", this kind of "peach talisman is made of peach wood one inch wide and seven or eight inches long. The names of the two gods, Shentan and Yubi, were written on the board of peach wood and hung on both sides of the door. Or it also draws the image of these two gods - left Shentian and right Yuji. Ancient people used to write and draw these two gods on peach charms to suppress evil spirits. This is also commonly known as the "door god". In the Fifth Dynasty, more than 700 years ago, Meng Chang, the later lord of Shu, personally wrote "New Year's Day is a blessing for all, and the Jiacheng Festival is an everlasting spring". This is one of the earliest spring scrolls in China. After Meng Chang wrote the "Peach Symbol", literati and scholars followed his example and regarded it as an elegant thing to write Spring Festival couplets, and the trend of writing Spring Festival couplets was gradually spreading.

But by the Song Dynasty, "spring couplets" were still called "peach symbols". Couplets are not limited to the inscription on the peach blossom, push the use of pillars in the pillar, the later name is "pillar". After the Song Dynasty, Yichun post more couplings, and write out the pink paper. Some people set the ancient language of poetry, some set of Tang and Song poems. Legendary, there are Wang Yigong emperor pavilion spring couplets: "North land condensation Yin end, a thousand door Shu Qi new." This is the spring couplet hanging people's cheeks.

"Peach symbols" really called "spring couplets". That is the Ming Dynasty. According to the Ming Dynasty literati Chen Yunzhan records, "the set of spring couplets since the beginning of the Ming Taizu. Imperial capital of Jinling, New Year's Eve, do not pass the order, Secretary of State and common people's homes, the door must be added to a pair of spring couplets, the emperor micro line out to see." Zhu Yuanzhang not only personally micro trip out to view the laughing and music, he also personally give bachelor Tao An and other people inscribed spring couplets. The emperor's advocacy, so that the spring couplets day, finally formed a fashion that has not failed to this day.