The significance of Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures

Sticking Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures are collectively called "Sticking New Year's Red", which symbolizes the good wishes of exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters and welcoming good luck. Spring Festival couplets use neat, concise and exquisite words to express good wishes for the New Year. New Year pictures are mostly door gods. As the patron saint of folk beliefs, people stick idols on doors to ward off evil spirits and keep peace.

The significance of Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures

The original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Fu Tao". The ancients put the word "Yichun" on it when they were in beginning of spring, and later it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets.

The ancients thought that people with strange looks often had magical temperament, extraordinary skills and inner integrity. It is their nature and responsibility to catch ghosts and demons, and so is Zhong Kui, the ghost catcher.