What is the significance of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival?

1 adds a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. Spring Festival couplets are all written in black on a red background or in gold on a red background. All kinds of decorations cooperate with the festive and joyful Spring Festival, adding a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

2. Express good wishes and vision. Decorations in Spring Festival couplets, such as fish, mean more than a year; Beautiful words, such as "more days, longer life and spring", express people's good wishes for the coming year.

3. Folk proverbs have the function of avoiding evil spirits and taking refuge. This statement comes from the legend of "Nian Beast". It is said that Nian beast is afraid of being red, so every household sticks couplets to drive Nian beast away on New Year's Eve. Therefore, the custom of pasting couplets has been passed down to this day, expressing people's desire to avoid evil and take refuge.

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The earliest prototype of Spring Festival couplets is "Fu Tao", which depicts two gods, Shen Tu and Lei Yu, in peach wood to ward off evil spirits. Later, Fu Tao was standardized and evolved into a rectangular red board with a length of six inches and a width of three inches, which was used to hang on both sides of the gate. "Made in Fu Tao, two or three feet long with a thin wooden board.

Big four or five inches, painted on the statue of Bai Ze, left Lei Yu and right Shen Tu. Or write spring poems, or book prayers, especially when Dan is old. "If painting idols is mainly to ward off ghosts and evil spirits, then writing spring poems is mainly to pray for good luck. After several evolutions, this has formed two major veins: door gods, New Year pictures, spring stickers and Spring Festival couplets.