At the beginning of the new year, the first thing is to paste the door gods and couplets. Black words on a red background, steady and bright, just right.
In the Ming Dynasty, Fu Tao changed its name to "Spring Festival couplets". In the Ming Dynasty, Chen wrote in Mao Yunlou's Miscellaneous Paintings: "The creation of Spring Festival couplets began with. Jinling, the imperial capital, suddenly issued an imperial decree before New Year's Eve: a pair of Spring Festival couplets must be added at the door of public officials and scholars, and the emperor will appear as soon as he leaves. " Zhu Yuanzhang not only went out of town incognito to see the laughter in person, but also wrote Spring Festival couplets himself. He passed a house and saw that the Spring Festival couplets had not been posted on the door. He went to ask, knowing that it was a castrated pig, and had not asked anyone to write it for him. Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote Spring Festival couplets for the castrated pig man, which read "Split the road of life and death with both hands and cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife". Relevance and humor. After Ming Taizu's advocacy, Spring Festival couplets have since become a custom, which has been passed down to this day.
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Spring Festival couplets to be written in red paper and black ink, and named them "Wan Nianhong".