Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.
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The color of couplets is related to local folk customs. What you can usually see is red, which means welcome. In some places, there are white, yellow, purple, green and blue. For example, in Hubei, yellow represents missing relatives who have just passed away, purple-blue represents the second year of offering sacrifices to the deceased, and green represents the third year of offering sacrifices to the deceased. In some places, white represents missing relatives who have just passed away.
Temples generally use yellow paper, and old people die at home. Younger generations generally don't stick red Spring Festival couplets for three years from that year, white, green and Huang San colors for the first year, green paper for the second year, yellow paper for the third year, and red paper for the fourth year after the mourning period expires. Therefore, the couplets of Bai, Lv and Huang San are commonly called "filial piety couplets", "filial piety couplets" or "Ding Youlian".
Some places put up yellow couplets in the first year, blue couplets in the second year and green couplets in the third year. Some places simply don't post couplets for three years to express their grief, so it is necessary to post couplets during the Spring Festival.