First couplet: bid farewell to the old year with the sound of firecrackers; second couplet: welcome the new year with bursts of gongs and drums
Interpretation: bid farewell to the old year with the sound of firecrackers; gongs and drums are sent The sound ushered in the new year.
The source of "The sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year" is from "Yuan Ri" written by Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty.
Original sentence: The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu. Thousands of households always replace old talismans with new peaches.
Interpretation: With the roaring sound of firecrackers, the old year has passed; the warm spring breeze brings the new year, and people happily drink the newly brewed Tusu wine. The rising sun shines on thousands of households, and they are all busy taking down the old peach charms and replacing them with new ones.
Extended information:
As a custom, couplets are an important part of traditional Chinese culture. Couplets, also known as antithetical couplets, door pairs, spring posts, spring couplets, antithetical couplets, peach charms, couplets (named after the couplets that were often hung on the pillars of buildings and houses in ancient times), etc., are a type of dual literature that originated from peach charms.
It is a dual sentence written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood or pillars. The words are concise and the meaning is profound, the contrast is neat, the oblique and oblique are coordinated, the number of words is the same, and the structure is the same. It is a unique art form of the Chinese language.
Parallel prose and rhymed poetry are the two direct sources of couplets. In the process of its own development, couplets also absorbed the characteristics of ancient poetry, prose, lyrics and music. Therefore, in addition to verse and parallel prose, the sentence patterns used in couplets also include ancient poetry, prose, and imitation of lyrics and music.
Different sentence patterns have different applicable rhythms and different leniency and severity. Among them, the regular verse style has the strictest requirements for level and obliqueness, while the ancient verse style has requirements for the level and obliqueness at the end of the sentence, and other positions are unrestricted.