The last couplet of the roaring tigers and the roaring dragons of China is the majestic power of China, and the mountains and rivers are covered with flowers, adding splendor to the landscape.
Leaping tigers and soaring dragons create miracles in the world, and the songs and dances of orioles describe the spring scenery of the earth; the sky is beautiful when tigers leap and dragons soar, and the fragrance of flowers and birds sings in the spring breeze everywhere; the mountains and rivers are filled with flowers to add splendor, the roaring tigers and dragons sing the majesty of China; the golden ox Bid farewell to the old and leave with a song of triumph, Jade Tiger welcomes the spring and brings good news to the new; Auspicious snow heralds good fortune every year, Ugly Ox succeeds the Yin Tiger and the Tiger brings power.
The origin of Spring Festival couplets:
It is said that Spring Festival couplets come from peach charms. According to "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Etiquette Records", the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yulei" are written on the peach wood board. "On the first day of the first lunar month, a peach charm is made and placed in the household. It is called a fairy tree and is feared by all ghosts." During the Five Dynasties, in the palace of Western Shu, someone wrote couplets on the peach charms. "Yanjing Chronicles of the Years" of the Qing Dynasty said: "Spring couplets are peach charms."
Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients often posted the word "Yichun" on the Beginning of Spring, and later gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, which express the Chinese working people's desire to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters, and welcome good fortune. desire.
This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Nowadays, it has become a custom to put up Spring Festival couplets. When red couplets are posted on the door, the house suddenly becomes brighter. As the poem goes: "When the joy comes, the red color shines, and every household posts Spring Festival couplets; bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new one, the wheel of time always moves forward."