Why do we hang Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival? What is its significance?
Spring Festival couplets are also called "door couplets", "spring stickers", "couplets" and "couplets". They use neat, parallel, concise and exquisite words to depict the background of the times and express good wishes. They are a unique literary form in my country. During every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every household will select a bright red couplet to paste on the door to add to the festive atmosphere. So how did the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets come about? Want to know more about the 2018 Spring Festival? Then continue to explore the 2018 Spring Festival special topic on the Fortune Teller website!The Origin of Pasting Spring Festival CoupletsSpring Festival couplets were not originally called "Spring Festival couplets" but "Peach Charms". It is said that the origin of pasting peach charms is very early. At that time, pasting "peach charms" was used to drive away demons and monsters. Legend has it that in ancient times there was an extremely ferocious monster that often did evil and harmed the people, but nothing could subdue it. Later, two gods who specialized in exorcising demons came and they subdued the monster with peach branches. Thus, the word spread among the people that if one hung a peach branch with the names of the two gods engraved on it on the door, demons and monsters would not dare to approach. Later, such peach branches were called "Tao Fu", and "Tao Fu" became popular.During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, peach charms evolved into Spring Festival couplets. According to records, Meng Chang, the ruler of Later Shu, asked Zhang Xun to write an inscription on peach wood. After Zhang Xun finished writing, Meng Chang felt that it was not antithetical, so he wrote: "The New Year brings us more blessings, and the festival is called Changchun." This was the first Spring Festival couplet in China, and at that time it was also called Tao Fu. Later, with the emergence of paper, peach wood was replaced by red paper. Spring Festival couplets really appeared during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang required every household to post Spring Festival couplets, so the streets and alleys were filled with Spring Festival couplets. The significance of pasting Spring Festival coupletsAdd 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, with various patterns on top, which are in line with the festivity and joy of the New Year and add to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.Express good wishes and visions. The patterns in the Spring Festival couplets, such as fish, imply abundance every year; beautiful words, such as "As the years go by, people get older, spring fills the world and blessings fill the house", express people's beautiful wishes for the coming year. Folk sayings say it can help avoid danger and misfortune. This saying comes from the legend of the "Nian Beast". It is said that the Nian Beast is afraid of red, so every New Year's Eve every household posts couplets to drive away the Nian Beast. The custom of posting couplets has been passed down to this day, expressing people's desire to avoid evil and avoid difficulties. |
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