The first couplet: Comes like a violent storm, and goes like rippling blue waves. The second couplet: Attacks like thunder, and defends like an iron wall. The Spring Festival couplets embody a family's good hope for the new year in simple words.
Posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival expresses the good wishes of each family for the New Year, such as "the six animals are prosperous and the grains are abundant"; or it is related to the Chinese nation's culture of chronology of the stems and branches.
The Spring Festival couplets are embedded with zodiac animal names such as "rat", "ox", "tiger", "rabbit", "dragon", "snake", "horse", and "sheep", such as "jin" "The carp flies to support Polygala; the auspicious sheep kneels at its breasts to express gratitude to relatives", etc.; some Spring Festival couplets also reflect the different "views of happiness" of different industries and families, "when happiness comes, the red color shines, and every household posts Spring Festival couplets"
Old. Bidding farewell to the new year and welcoming the new one, the wheel of time always moves forward." The new year brings a new atmosphere. As a color, red Spring Festival couplets bring people joy and excitement to welcome the new year.
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The origin of Spring Festival couplets:
Spring Festival couplets originated from ancient peach symbols. Peach charms are rectangular peach boards hung on both sides of the door. Write the names of the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yulei" on it to drive away ghosts and ward off evil spirits. Every Spring Festival, people always replace the old peach charms with new peach charms. This is what Wang Anshi's poem "Thousands of households wipe out the old days and always replace the old talismans with new peaches".
Spring Festival couplets began in the Five Dynasties. In 964 AD, Meng Chang, the lord of Later Shu, first asked the scholar Xin Yinxun to write an inscription on a peach board, but because he thought his writing was not stable, he wrote it himself: "New Year's Day, Happy Festival, Changchun". From then on, writing peach charms evolved into writing Spring Festival couplets. Later, due to the mass production of paper, people gradually replaced the peach board with paper. This is the beginning of pasting Spring Festival couplets. Spring couplets are meant to express good expectations.
Spring couplets are a type of couplets and a unique literary form. It describes the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. It is a Chinese literary form. Every Spring Festival, every household, whether in urban or rural areas, selects a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and sticks them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.
The Chinese people have had an optimistic mindset since ancient times, placing their hope in the future and praying that the future will bring them good luck. No matter what happy, proud or unsatisfactory things happened in the past year, I always hope that the next year will be better, so when the New Year is coming, posting Spring Festival couplets just achieves this purpose. best choice.
They use Spring Festival couplets to express their joy and happiness for the past year, or to express their expectations and high hopes for the new year. In their traditional concept, having a good start in the year is the most pleasant and auspicious thing. Therefore, every Spring Festival, they express their good feelings and good expectations for the future by posting Spring Festival couplets. .
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Interesting facts about Spring Festival couplets:
Wang Xizhi’s wonderful calligraphy Spring Festival couplets
Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, immigrated from his hometown in Shandong one year When he arrived in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, it was the end of the year, so Wang Xizhi wrote a Spring Festival couplet and asked his family to post it on both sides of the gate. The couplet is: spring breeze, spring rain, spring scenery, new year, new year, new scenery.
Unexpectedly, because Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy is world-renowned and admired by the world, the couplet was taken away at night as soon as it was posted. After his family told Wang Xizhi, Wang Xizhi was not angry. He wrote another one and asked his family to post it again. This painting reads: The Orioles Cry in the North Star and the Southern Suburbs of Yanyu
Unexpectedly, when I looked at it at dawn, it was taken away again. But today was already New Year's Eve, and the next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year. Seeing that every household in the neighborhood had hung Spring Festival couplets, but the door of her own house was empty, Mrs. Wang was so anxious that she urged her husband to find a way.
As expected, someone came to steal the secret at night. But looking under the moonlight, I saw that this couplet was not very auspicious. Although Wang Xizhi is a famous calligrapher, he cannot take away this couplet full of dangerous predictions. The person who came to steal it had no choice but to sigh and sneak away under the cover of night.
At dawn on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Xizhi went out in person to paste the lower halves he had cut yesterday. At this time, many people were watching. When everyone saw it, the couplet became: Unparalleled Blessings Come. Today's worst misfortunes never come alone, but they happened last night.
Everyone saw it and cheered and clapped their hands in unison