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Why should we post couplets during the Spring Festival? The Spring Festival is the most joyful festival in China and the most joyful festival in China. On this day, people gather together to have a reunion dinner and watch Spring Festival programs. Posting festive couplets on the house leads to a joyful New Year. So, do you know why we post couplets during the Spring Festival?
Spring couplets are a type of couplets and are a unique literary form. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neatly coupled, concise and exquisite words. It is a Chinese literary form. Every Spring Festival, every household, whether in urban or rural areas, selects a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and sticks them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.
Posting Spring Festival couplets is the first thing people do to celebrate the Spring Festival. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household pastes brand new Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the door, with black characters on a red background, steady and bright. It expresses the good wishes of each family for the New Year, such as prosperous livestock and abundant grains. Some Spring Festival couplets also reflect the different views on happiness of different families in different industries. Therefore, carefully studying the Spring Festival couplets posted by people during the Spring Festival is undoubtedly a meaningful way to observe folk customs.
Spring couplets originated from the rectangular peach boards hung on both sides of the door in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty, the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the name of Tu Yulei, the great god who descends ghosts, is written on the peach board. On the first day of the first lunar month, a peach charm is made and placed in the household. It is called a fairy tree and is feared by all ghosts. Therefore, the Spring Festival couplets recorded in the "Yanjing Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty are Taofu. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, some people in the palace inscribed couplets on peach symbols. "History of the Shu Family in the Song Dynasty" says that Meng Chang, the leader of the later Shu, ordered Zhang Xun, a bachelor, to inscribe a peach wood board because he was not a craftsman. Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called Taofu. In Wang Anshi's poem, there is a line about thousands of households being like pupils, always replacing old talismans with new ones. In the Song Dynasty, the peach charms were changed from peach boards to paper, called spring stickers and spring couplets.
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