Fu Tao is the birthplace of Spring Festival couplets. Fu Tao is an article that people painted on Shen Tu and Er Shen during the Spring Festival to exorcise ghosts. According to ancient legend, there is a big peach tree in Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, and under it are Shen Tu and Mao Yu who are in charge of ghosts. A ghost in trouble will tie it up and feed it to the tiger. Later, people wrote some auspicious sentences on peach symbols, which had auspicious meanings.
Spring Festival couplets, another origin of Spring Festival couplets, also known as "Spring Books", appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and were articles that people prayed for good luck and happiness. Cut the word "Yichun" on beginning of spring daily-use colored paper and stick it on the doorpost. Some of them write simple sentences and stick them on the lintel.
After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill, heard ghosts screaming outside, and stayed up all night. So he asked the two generals to stand by with weapons in their hands, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the portraits of the two generals painted on the doors, and this custom began to spread widely among the people in China.
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There is also a custom of posting Spring Festival couplets on the Korean peninsula, which is called the beginning of spring list, spring book, spring post and spring Zhu. Jeju Island is called (beginning of spring? , in which "?" For the inherent word, the meaning of sacrifice). It is an auspicious sentence of Spring Festival couplets, which is posted on the gate, girder and patio to express the wishes of the New Year. Although proverbs have been widely used in daily life on the Korean peninsula for many years, the beginning of "Chundan" is still written in Chinese characters.
Like China's Spring Festival couplets, one of the sources of Korean Spring Festival couplets is Xiang Yan's poems. During the Korean Dynasty, Cheng Chengyuan's officials and attendants, a few days ago in beginning of spring, each presented a five-character quatrain to the king, and then selected a good one and posted it on the palace post, which was beginning of spring's post.
In the early days, beginning of spring's posts were only posted in aristocratic mansions and palaces, and later spread to the people.
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