During the Spring Festival, auspicious or congratulatory words are written on red paper and posted on doors. This is the so-called Spring Festival couplets. Its source is the ancient peach symbol. Fu Cha Dunchong's Spring Festival couplets in the Year of Yan in Qing Dynasty: Spring Festival couplets, that is, Fu Tao also. Since entering China, scholars have written Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of the streets.
The development history of Spring Festival couplets
The earliest Spring Festival couplets recorded by world record association in the world are: "Three Yang begins to spread, and four orders begin to open." This pair of Spring Festival couplets is recorded in the Dunhuang suicide note (volume number Stein 06 10) unearthed in the Tibetan Sutra Cave in Mogao Grottoes. This suicide note records 12 Spring Festival couplets written on that year and beginning of spring Day. This couplet is the preface and the first couplet, which was written by Liu Yu in the 11th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty (723).
It is 240 years earlier than the inscription of Meng Chang, the late Shu master. "Sanyang cloth;" "The Four Orders First Open" broke the world record of "Spring Festival in Qing Yu, Spring Festival in Changchun" and was selected as the earliest Spring Festival couplets in world record association, China. The folk custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, loved couplets. He not only wrote it himself, but also often encouraged courtiers to write.
Zhu Yuanzhang strongly advocated posting couplets. After establishing Jinling (Nanjing) as the capital, he ordered ministers, officials and ordinary people to write a couplet and stick it on the door before New Year's Eve. He wore casual clothes and watched from house to house for fun.
Scholars at that time also regarded couplets as elegant enjoyment, and writing Spring Festival couplets became a social fashion. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph "Conghua Couplets" discusses the origin of Spring Festival couplets and the characteristics of various works.