The Origin of Chinese Traditional Culture Traditional Couplets

The Spring Festival couplets have a long history and are said to have begun with Meng Chang, the Lord of Shu in the Five Dynasties. His inscription on the peach rune on the door panel of his bedchamber: "New Year's Day is a blessing for all, and the Jiejie number is everlasting spring", which is called "the inscription on the peach rune" (see Shu Legend), is the earliest couplet in China, and also the first pair of Spring Festival couplets.

Couplets, as a custom, are an important part of traditional Chinese culture, and in 2005, the State Council listed couplets as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

The custom of couplets has been passed down and spread among Chinese people and people who use Chinese language around the world as well as those who have cultural origins with Chinese characters, and it is of great value to the promotion of Chinese culture.

Expanded Information:

Couplets are written in characters and in many cases are written, hung or engraved on other buildings or vessels. engraved on other buildings or artifacts. Therefore, the second level of the couplet is the so-called relative words. The word relative means that couplets are not only language art, but also decorative art.

As a decorative art, a pair of couplets requires neatness and symmetry, giving people a harmonious and symmetrical beauty. Chinese characters have the right conditions to realize the symmetry, and they exist in the form of individual squares, which are square and neat, occupying equal spatial positions in writing.

It is readable and visible. Its square shape, both the principle of aesthetics, but also contains the requirements of mechanics. Whether it is written horizontally or vertically, it can look sparse, neat and beautiful.