Where did the Spring Festival couplets come from?

Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient sacrificial ceremonies in China, and its evolution process bears rich historical and cultural connotations and social significance.

According to historical records, Spring Festival couplets can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. At that time, when people offered sacrifices to ancestors and gods, they would write auspicious words and hang them on doors to pray for peace and prosperity. With the passage of time, Spring Festival couplets have gradually become a traditional custom for people to greet the New Year and pray for good luck. On New Year's Eve, they were posted on the doorstep and room walls of their homes.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Spring Festival couplets gradually became folk, forming the basic model of modern Spring Festival couplets. Nowadays, Spring Festival couplets have become a rich folk culture, which is regarded as one of the important components of China traditional culture.

In the evolution of Spring Festival couplets, its content, form and style also change with the changes of times and regions. The Spring Festival couplets in Song Dynasty are mainly composed of Tang poems, mostly seven-character quatrains, with beautiful words and a sense of rhythm. Spring Festival couplets in Yuan Dynasty began to pay attention to the meaning and symbol of the content, and chose the form of antithesis or antithesis. In the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets were more solemn and peaceful, especially in the Qianlong period. The calligraphy art of Spring Festival couplets reached its peak and became a classic in the history of Spring Festival couplets.

In addition, besides the Spring Festival couplets with rich cultural connotations, there are some novel and interesting forms of Spring Festival couplets. Such as "couplets", "netizen couplets", "robot couplets" and so on.

Among them, "couplets" means that two or more people answer each other sentence by sentence, couplet in turn, and cooperate with each other to write a pair of Spring Festival couplets; "Netizen couplets" refers to writing Spring Festival couplets through online dialogue on the network platform, giving full play to the communication and social functions of the Internet. "Robot Spring Festival couplets" use artificial intelligence technology to make robots automatically generate Spring Festival couplets and try to combine traditional culture with modern technology.

In addition, Spring Festival couplets can be combined with other cultural forms to produce new artistic effects. For example, it is combined with painting, music, film and television to form Spring Festival couplets with modern aesthetic characteristics and cultural connotations. This not only adds more cultural atmosphere to the Spring Festival, but also enriches the expression of traditional culture in China.

In short, today's Spring Festival couplets are no longer a single cultural form, but show a diversified and innovative development trend. It fully embodies the unique charm of China culture and provides a broader space for the exploration of cultural innovation in China.