Spring couplets from the Qing Dynasty court written on white paper. During the Spring Festival in 2009, Xinhua News Agency reporters interviewed Professor Wu Bin, Director of the Shenyang Palace Museum, and Tong Yue, Director of the Research Office of the Shenyang Palace Museum. Wu Bin said that people would post door gods and Spring Festival couplets during the New Year, and the court of the Qing Dynasty was no exception. The difference is that the royal door gods and couplets are hung instead of pasted. The Spring Festival couplets are not written on red paper, but on white paper or white silk, with blue edges wrapped on the outside and red stripes on the inside. Calligraphy was originally written in Manchu, but changed to Chinese characters after the mid-Qing Dynasty. The door gods hung in the Qing palace were first mounted in a frame with copper ornaments, drawn on rough silk or cloth, and edged with yellow silk. There are four types of door gods, namely, the golden door god, the golden door god, the golden door god, the fairy door god and the boy door god. Tong Yue, director of the research office of the Shenyang Palace Museum, said that after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, many Manchu folk customs were gradually brought to the palace. The difference between folk New Year celebrations and the palace is that the royal door gods and couplets are hung instead of posted. Spring couplets are not written on red paper, but on white paper or white silk. The hanging time is from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the 16th of the first lunar month after the new year.