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The story of the origin of Spring Festival couplets
According to legend, in Shan Hai Jing, an ancient myth in China, there is a ghost land with a mountain in the middle, a big peach tree covering 3,000 miles, and a golden rooster on the treetop. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain.
The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Peach Tree District. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu. If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of Miscanthus and give it to the tiger.
So all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao".
In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. They also write couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and auspiciousness, and stick them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.
After the Tang Dynasty, besides former generals, people regarded Qin and Weichi Gong as door gods. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill, heard ghosts screaming outside, and stayed up all night.
So he asked the two generals to stand by with weapons in their hands, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the images of these two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread widely among the people.
Cultural Connotation of Sticking Spring Festival couplets
The Spring Festival is the "first festival" of the Chinese nation. In the historical civilization of China, there are many customs to celebrate the Spring Festival. So far, among the people, especially in rural areas, the most widely preserved customs are putting up Spring Festival couplets and putting up doors. Among these traditional celebrations of the Chinese nation, the Spring Festival couplets are the most cultural ones. Post Spring Festival couplets to celebrate the Spring Festival and express people's good wishes for the new year.
Traditional Spring Festival couplets are written in black on a red background, which is steady and bright. Express the family's best wishes for the new year, such as "six animals are prosperous and the grain is abundant". Some Spring Festival couplets also focus on reflecting different "happiness views" of different industries and families.
Sticking Spring Festival couplets, as one of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, increases the festive atmosphere. It is one of the Spring Festival activities that people in urban and rural areas in China like very much, and it is a unique entertainment activity rich in national literature in China. In China, at the beginning of the new year, every household will never forget to put up Spring Festival couplets on their doors. Amid firecrackers, people greeted each other with smiles and pasted Spring Festival couplets written on red paper on the door frame or heart.
You can see the new atmosphere of the New Year on the Spring Festival couplets at the door of every household. Spring Festival couplets with black characters on a red background or gold characters on a red background are like golden dragons going out to sea and phoenix dancing wildly, full of red celebrations and spring unique to the Chinese nation. As the saying goes, "New peaches for old peaches", Spring Festival couplets have become a symbol of resigning the old and welcoming the new, and also people's sustenance for a better future.