When did the Spring Festival couplets originate?

Spring Festival couplets (Spring Festival couplets), also called Spring Festival couplets, are posted at the beginning of Spring Festival couplets (North Korea) and blessing stickers. In Cantonese, it is called rejuvenation (also called rejuvenation), and in Minnan, it is a traditional decoration used during the Spring Festival. The auspicious words of the New Year are written in beautiful calligraphy on paper, usually pasted on walls and doors, in China society, Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam. Couplets are also called Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao (rectangular red boards were hung on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty). According to the Book of Rites, the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the names of ghosts and gods Shen Tu and Lei Yu are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, I made a peach symbol for this family and named it Xianmu. All ghosts are afraid of it." Spring Festival couplets in North Korea and Vietnam (2) Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, Yanjing's Eating Sui Ji recorded: "Spring Festival couplets are also in Fu Tao." During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, in the court, someone inscribed couplets on peach symbols. "History of Shu Family in Song Dynasty" said: Meng Chang, the master of the later Shu Dynasty, asked Xin, a bachelor, to write a poem on the red board, "Because he is not working, he pretended to write a cloud:' Spring Festival is coming, and Changchun will be celebrated'". This is China's first Spring Festival couplets. Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Fu Tao". There is a saying in Wang Anshi's poem that "thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old ones." In the Song Dynasty, the peach symbols were changed from red boards to paper, which were called "spring stickers" and "Spring Festival couplets".