Why do people put up Spring Festival couplets, lucky charms and door gods on the Spring Festival?

1, since ancient times, there is a creature called the year, every year on New Year's Eve out to eat people, and then people used to stick pounded couplings, firecrackers to scare away the year, so that it no longer hurt people, and has been inherited to this day.

2, the Spring Festival people in the house door, wall, lintel, stick "Fu" character, is our country's long-established custom. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, most people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating "happiness has arrived" and other symbols. In the afternoon of the day before the Spring Festival, people put paintings of the God of Door on the door panels.

3, this custom has a history of more than two thousand years. The first is to drive away evil spirits, and in recent times, more to add joy and happiness. In the old days, the folk generally like to paste Zhong Kui fighting ghosts of the door god; some places like to post the Zhong Kui door god with a big seal and Qin Shubao, Yuchigong portrait, in order to pray for a year of peace and prosperity.

4. The word "Fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", while in the past it meant "good fortune" and "good luck". During the Spring Festival, every family should put the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel of the house. The Spring Festival sticker "Fu" character, is our country's folk custom for a long time.

5, festive red Spring Festival couplets is a kind of couplets, posted in the Spring Festival, so the name Spring Festival couplets. Initially, people used to avoid evil spirits, painting the door god like a wooden carving into a human figure hanging in the door next to the mahogany, and then simplified for the inscription of the name of the door god on the mahogany board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and then gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.