Summarize a folklore about Spring Festival couplets.

1 How did the Spring Festival couplets come about? There is such a story in Shan Hai Jing. Legend has it that there is a beautiful Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea of China, also known as Du Tao. There is a big peach tree on the mountain with a golden rooster on the top, which is made at sunrise. The northeast end of this peach tree is full of arched branches, and the top of the tree has bent down and touched the ground, just like a natural gate. There are all kinds of monsters living in Shuoshan. If you want to go out, you have to go through this gate of hell. The Emperor of Heaven was afraid that ghosts would come down the mountain to disturb the world, so he sent two gods to guard it, one named Shen Tu and the other named Lei Yu. The names of these two gods have special pronunciations. Shen Tu should read "sacred tree" and Lei Yu should read "jade law". The two gods will monitor the behavior of ghosts. He found out which ghost was doing evil, so he tied it up with straw rope and gave it to the tiger. Since then, from this story, the theory of ghost peach wood has been derived. So, at that time, people used two pieces of peach wood to carve the images of Shen Tu and Lei Yu or write their names on both sides of the door, calling them Fu Tao to show that they could ward off evil spirits.

2\ Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, moved from his hometown in Shandong to Shaoxing, Zhejiang one year. At this time, it was the end of the year, and Wang Xizhi wrote a pair of Spring Festival couplets for his family to stick on both sides of the gate. Couplets are:

"Spring breeze, spring rain and spring scenery,

New year, new year, new scene. "

Unexpectedly, because Wang Xizhi's calligraphy was the best in the world, he was highly respected by people at that time. As soon as this couplet was posted, it was uncovered at night. After the family told Wang Xizhi, Wang Xizhi didn't get angry, so he started writing and asked his family to post it again. This salary is written like this:

"Ti Ying Polaris,

Southern suburbs of Yan language. "

Who knows, at dawn, it was uncovered again. But this day is New Year's Eve, and the next day is New Year's Day. Seeing that Spring Festival couplets are hung in front of every household in the neighborhood, but there is no one in front of my house, Mrs. Wang is anxious to urge her husband to find a way.

Wang Xizhi thought about it, smiled and wrote a pair of pen words. After writing, he asked his family to cut out a pair of couplets and put the first half on the door:

"There is no double happiness,

It never rains but it pours. "

Sure enough, someone stole it at night. But when I look at it in the moonlight, I can see that this couplet is too unlucky. Although Wang Xizhi is a famous calligrapher, he can't take down this couplet full of dangerous predictions and hang it up. The thief had to sigh and slip away in the dark.

It was just dawn on the first day of the first month of the first month, and Wang Xizhi personally went out yesterday to post a half-cut. At this time, many people are watching. When you look at it, the couplet becomes:

"It was not until today that there was a double happiness.

It never rains but it pours. "

When everyone saw it, they cheered in unison and applauded.