Paper was invented in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the era of no paper, how did the ancients stick spring couplets?

Papermaking is indeed the Eastern Han Dynasty only appeared, if you want to understand in the invention of paper before the ancient people is how to paste spring couplets, first of all to figure out when to paste spring couplets appeared. Only after the Song Dynasty began to popularize the posting of Spring Festival couplets, the Ming Dynasty period in the community to a wide range of popularity, before that people use a kind of object called the peach charm, which is made of mahogany with a square board, in which some words and other things, and the posting of Spring Festival couplets child is only a few areas in the south of the development of a custom.

Because transportation was not as convenient as it is now, and communication between people was less frequent, it was understandably difficult for customs to spread from one place to another, and so the Spring Festival couplets became popular in the Song Dynasty. It took several dynasties before it was widely accepted by the public in the Ming Dynasty. For ancient people, the most important part of celebrating the Spring Festival was to offer sacrifices to ancestors and to pray for a healthy family in the new year. Chinese people attach great importance to rituals, from the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States until the Ming and Qing dynasties, the concept of family is very heavy, so rituals as an important activity at the end of the year must not be ignored.

Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, before paper was invented, people used to put peach tree branches on their doorsteps in order to ward off evil spirits, and it was said that if they put the branches on their doorsteps, the dirty things wouldn't come close to their homes. Some people would also paint some charms on the walls of their homes, and some people who had more money at home might find a piece of wood and carve some words on it and put it in front of their door, or just make a big plaque. We once learned a poem, one of the verses must be very familiar to everyone, "always change the new peach for the old talisman", so before the appearance of the Spring Festival couplets, people commonly used peach talisman.