Why do you want to post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival? What do you mean by posting Spring Festival couplets?

The folk custom of posting Spring Festival couplets in China began in the Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Ming Dynasty. The real popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in the Ming Dynasty, which was related to Zhu Yuanzhang's advocacy. Sticking Spring Festival couplets expresses the good wishes of working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, loved couplets. He not only writes by himself, but also often encourages his officials to write. One year on New Year's Eve, he sent a message: "A pair of Spring Festival couplets must be added to the door of public officials or scholars." On New Year's Day, I was very happy to see the Spring Festival couplets that complement each other. He went to a house and saw that there were no Spring Festival couplets on the door, so he asked why. It turns out that the owner is a castrated pig, and he is worried that he can't find someone to write Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote down the Spring Festival couplets of "splitting the road of life and death with both hands and cutting off the root of right and wrong with one knife" and gave them to this family.

The earliest existing Spring Festival couplets are Dunhuang suicide notes unearthed from the Tibetan scriptures in Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. There are twelve pairs of couplets written by beginning of spring and Nian-ri in the book. The first pair is "Nian-ri: Sanyang begins to show, and the fourth rank begins to open", which was written by Liu Yu in the 11th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty (723).