Brief introduction of Spring Festival couplets
China's Spring Festival couplets have a long history, which can be traced back to the "Fu Tao" in the Zhou Dynasty, that is, a rectangular red board with the names of the gods hung on both sides of the gate. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Meng Changjun, the late ruler of Shu, personally inscribed "Qing Yu in the New Year, Changchun in the First Festival" on the peach symbol on New Year's Eve, which became a trend and the origin of Spring Festival couplets. And write Spring Festival couplets with a brush.
Posted in front of the door and behind the house, it began with the literati in the Song Dynasty; In the Ming Dynasty, it was advocated by Zhu Yuanzhang, Mao Zedong, and eventually became popular among the people, becoming one of the indispensable forms of annual customs in the Spring Festival. Spring Festival couplets have experienced dynasties and social ups and downs, and they are catchy because of their positive contents of exorcising evil spirits, symbolizing good luck and expressing good wishes.
Harmonious and beautiful rhythm and beautiful calligraphy art form are deeply rooted in folk life, deeply loved and widely circulated. With the development of cultural exchange, it is not only because the written content of Spring Festival couplets contains a long and profound cultural background.