Spring Festival couplets in English

Spring Festival couplets in English.

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers" and "door pairs", "It is one of the types of red festive elements "Nianhong" posted during the Chinese New Year. It is a unique form of literature in China, and is an important custom of Chinese people during the Chinese New Year. When people put up the New Year's Red (Spring Festival couplets, lucky charms, window displays, etc.) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival has officially kicked off.

Every Lunar New Year, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to pick beautiful red Spring Festival couplets to paste on their doors, so that Yunhui can resign from the old and welcome the new, and increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, after the gradual development of Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evil spirits in addition to the disaster, and welcome the good wishes of the auspicious and blessed.

Origin of Spring Festival couplets:

Spring Festival couplets are red celebratory elements posted on New Year's Eve quietly oak "red" in a category, it is a neat and concise text to depict the beautiful image of the words, expressing good wishes, is a unique form of literature, is an important custom of the Chinese people. It is a unique Chinese literary form and an important custom of Chinese people during the New Year. When people put up the New Year's Red (Spring Festival couplets, lucky charms, window displays, etc.) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival has officially kicked off.

It is said that the Spring Festival couplets originated from peach charms. According to the "Hou Han Shu - Rituals Zhi", the peach symbols were six inches long and three inches wide, with "Shentian" and "Yubi" gods written on the peach wood boards. "On the first day of the first month, make peach symbols on the household, the name of the immortal wood, all the ghosts are afraid of." During the Five Dynasties, in the court of Western Shu, some people inscribed couplings on peach charms. The Yanjing Shiyouji (Records of the Years of Yanjing) says: "Spring couplets are peach charms."

The other source of Spring Festival couplets is the spring stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils in addition to the disaster, and welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.