Appreciation of couplets of seal script in Spring Festival

Since ancient times, there have been many colorful folk activities during the Spring Festival, such as offering sacrifices, parties, banquets, divination, greeting the gods, celebrating the New Year and playing. There are many activities in the Spring Festival. Different places and different nationalities have different customs. Han people think that the Spring Festival is the most important festival in a year. Before the Spring Festival, people actively buy new year's goods, paste Spring Festival couplets, hang New Year pictures, have a family reunion dinner and other activities.

Especially on New Year's Eve, it is very lively, and people start their preparations for the day early. The New Year pictures are posted. New Year pictures originated from door gods, and there were door gods in Han Dynasty. Both Zhong Kui, the doorman, and the more vivid and lovely picture of the Chinese zodiac are meant to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck in the coming year. Another preparation is to paste Spring Festival couplets, which originated from the ancient peach characters. Wang Anshi once wrote: "When you look for everything, you always change peaches for old words." It symbolizes exorcism and blessing. What's more important is to paste the word "Fu" and write "Fu" on square red paper with characters such as seal script and regular script. Then stick it on doors and windows, and sometimes turn the word "fu" into "fu".

According to records, the custom of posting the word "Fu" on New Year's Eve may have originated from the word "Fu" written by the Qing emperor to ministers. As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang attached so much importance to the Spring Festival couplets just to celebrate a New Year's Day, which was the grand occasion that he longed for the unification of Liuhe, the unification of the world, the joy of the people and the people, and * * *. First of all, in the nearly 300-year rule of the Ming Dynasty, as a folk culture, it spread from the official Spring Festival couplets to the temple couplets and became popular. Later, the custom of Spring Festival couplets became more popular in the Qing and Ming Dynasties. Kangxi, Qianlong, Xiao Shenyang and Ji Xiaolan are all masters of writing couplets, leaving many beautiful couplets. So Zeng Guofan became a madman of couplets.

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