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When did the earliest spring scrolls originate

The earliest Spring Festival couplets came from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, there was a prototype of the Spring Festival. At that time, the "Peach Stem" was the first Spring Festival couplets. Peach stalks that is, with peach wood carvings of God Tantra, Yubi two gods, used to drive away filth and evil spirits, later, peach stalks continue to standardize, evolved into a rectangular peach board used to hang on both sides of the door six inches long and three inches wide. After several evolutions, it formed the two main veins of door gods, New Year's paintings and spring posters, spring couplets.

Chinese New Year couplets, also known as couplets, couplets, divided into the upper and lower couplets, commonly known as pairs, spring couplets of the paste method of symmetry. Now posted on the main door of the spring couplets generally known as the door, posted in the yard on the second door is called heavy door couplets.

Chinese New Year's couplets are a unique form of literature in China, and a way to inherit traditional customs, representing the continuation of our traditional cultural species. Spring Festival couplets have the traditional folk function of praying for good luck and decorating one's home, reflecting the customs and beliefs of the people and holding the hopes of the people for the future.

Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to pick the beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and paste them on the door to celebrate the old and welcome the new, and increase the festive atmosphere.