The origin of the Spring Festival couplets is simpler and urgent

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "couplets" and "door pairs", are unique literary forms in China and an important symbol of the Spring Festival for Chinese people.

One said that the Spring Festival couplets ** are in the peach symbol. According to the Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty, the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the peach wood is written on the board with two gods, "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei". "On the first day of the first lunar month, the peach charm is made to the household, the name is immortal wood, and the ghosts are feared.

In the fifth dynasty, in the court of Xishu, someone wrote a couplet on the peach symbol. The Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "The Spring Festival couplets are peach charms."

Another ** of the Spring Festival couplets is the spring sticker, the ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into the Spring Festival couplet, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome auspiciousness.

This custom began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic qualities of the Spring Festival couplets have been greatly improved. Now it has become a custom to paste Spring Festival couplets, and the red couplets are pasted on the door, and the house suddenly shines.

There are many kinds of sparrows in the spring couplets, and according to their use places, they can be divided into door hearts, frame pairs, horizontal batches, spring strips, bucket catties, etc. The "door center" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames; "Horizontal batch" is pasted on the crossbar of the lintel; "Spring strips" are pasted in the corresponding places according to different contents; "Doujin" is also called "door leaf", which is a square diamond shape, and is mostly pasted in furniture and shadow walls. At the same time, every household should paste the word "Fu" on the door, on the wall, and on the lintel.

The word "Fu" is a long-standing custom of Chinese folk during the Spring Festival.

After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the two generals of the past Shen Tu and Yu Lei, people regarded Qin Shubao and Wei Chi Gong, two Tang Dynasty military generals, as door gods.

By the Song Dynasty, it was quite common to write couplets on mahogany boards. The appearance of the word "Spring Festival couplets" was in the early years of the Ming Zhi Xiang Dynasty.

Spring couplets originated from peach charms (long rolling smiles and square peach boards hanging on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty). According to the Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty, the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the names of the ghost gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" are written on the peach board. "On the first day of the first lunar month, the peach charm is made to the household, the name is immortal wood, and the ghosts are feared.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" recorded: "The Spring Festival couplet is the peach charm." "During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, in the court, someone inscribed couplets on the peach symbol.

The History of the Song Dynasty and the Shu Family" said: The Later Shu lord Meng Changling bachelor Xin Yinxun inscribed the peach wood board, "with its non-work, pretentious pen inscription: 'Xinsheng Xun Nian Na Yuqing, Jiajie Changchun'", this is China's first Spring Festival couplet.

Until the Song Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets were still called "peach symbols". In Wang Anshi's poems, there is a sentence "Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one". In the Song Dynasty, the peach charm was changed from peach wood board to paper, called "spring sticker" and "spring couplet".

The origin of the Spring Festival couplets is: the earliest originated from the peach charm, it is people in order to get rid of the ghosts, and the names of the gods and Yu Lei are written on the peach wood and hung on the door.

Spring Festival couplets, also known as spring stickers, door pairs, couplets, is a type of red festive element pasted during the New Year. It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes in neat, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China and an important custom of the Chinese people to celebrate the New Year. When people paste New Year's red (Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters, window flowers, etc.) at the door of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicks off.

Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should pick up beautiful red spring couplets and paste them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new year, increasing the festive atmosphere. Another ** of the Spring Festival couplets is the spring sticker. In some areas, "Spring Festival couplets" are also the collective name of various spring stickers, and some areas call strips and unpaired spring stickers as spring stickers, and North Korea has names such as Lichun Bang, Lichun Book, and Lichun Stickers, referred to as Chunbang and Chun Stickers.

Spring Festival couplets posting rules:

The posting of Spring Festival couplets should conform to the traditional rules, and the Spring Festival couplets should be posted vertically. The upper panel should be affixed to the right-hand side (i.e., the left side of the door), the lower part should be affixed to the left-hand side (i.e., the right side of the door), and the horizontal section should also be read from right to left. The upper and lower links cannot be reversed.

For example, "the spring returns to the earth and the flowers compete for beauty, and the sun warms all things in Shenzhou", it cannot be pasted as "the sun warms all things in Shenzhou, and the spring returns to the earth and the flowers compete for beauty", from the content point of view, the upper link and the lower link have a causal relationship, because "the spring returns to the earth and the flowers compete for beauty", so that "the sun warms all things in Shenzhou".

If it is reversed, the cause and effect relationship is reversed, and it also makes people awkward to read. Looking at it from the level, you can judge the upper and lower couplets from the level of the upper and lower sentences of the Spring Festival couplet. The last word "Yan" on the couplets of this Spring Festival couplet is four tones, that is, the sound of the voice.

The next ending word "Hui" is a sound, that is, a flat sound. Generally speaking, if the tail word is three tones and four tones (仄音) is the upper link, if the tail word is one tone and the second tone (flat sound) is the lower link.

The custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the Later Shu period more than 1,000 years ago, which is evidenced by history. In addition, according to the records of "Jade Candle Treasure Book", "Yanjing Years Chronicle" and other works, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach charms".

The legend of the Spring Festival couplets:

In ancient Chinese mythology, it is said that there is a world of ghosts, in which there is a mountain, on which there is a large peach tree covering 3,000 miles, and there is a golden rooster on the treetop. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghosts that wander out at night will drive back to the ghost realm. The gate of the ghost domain is located in the northeast of the peach tree, and there are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Yu Lei.

If the ghost did something unreasonable at night, Shen Tu and Yu Lei would immediately find out and catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and send it to feed the tiger. Therefore, the ghosts of the world are afraid of the gods and gloom. So the people carved their appearance with peach wood and placed it at the door of their house to ward off evil and prevent harm.

Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei on the peach wood board, believing that this could also suppress evil and eliminate evil. This kind of peach plank was later called "peach charm".

Folklore is because of the legend that there is a monster called "Yu".

On the last day of the twelfth lunar month, he would come down the mountain, eat people, destroy houses, crops, and people complained that even many immortals sent by the Heavenly Immortal Realm could not cure him.

The Lord of the Stove went to Heaven one year to talk about the situation of the people, and the Jade Emperor sent another immortal to eliminate the "Xi" with the Lord of the Stove

But when they arrived in the world, they found that "Xi" was really powerful.

When he was helpless, a child stood up and said, "I'll give it a try!" ”

The child got a piece of red silk and a treasure artifact from a powerful god in the sky, and the child found that "Xi" was afraid of burning branches and red things during the fight with "Xi", and he told the villagers to use burning wooden pipes to drive "Xi" away, but still did not defeat "Xi", and finally the child killed "Xi" with red silk

In order not to let the monsters come to harm the world.

The child threw the red silk into the sky.

The red silk turned into many small red square cloths and pasted them on the doors of every house, with auspicious words written on them, so people called this thing the Spring League, and the day the child killed "Eve" was called "Chinese New Year's Eve".

One said that the Spring Festival couplets ** are in the peach symbol. According to the Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty, the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" are written on the peach board. "On the first day of the first lunar month, the peach charm is made to the household, the name is immortal wood, and the ghosts are feared.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "The Spring Festival couplets are peach charms." In the fifth dynasty, in the court of Xishu, someone wrote a couplet on the peach symbol.

The other ** of the Spring Festival couplets is the spring sticker, the ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into the Spring Festival couplet, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese workers to bury the empty people to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and welcome auspicious blessings.

(1) Inherit traditional culture

Spring Festival couplets are a unique literary form in our country, from the different styles and rich content of the couplets, you can feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture, feel the rich rural customs and rich flavor of the year.

(2) Increase the festive atmosphere

Spring Festival couplets symbolize festive joy, every Spring Festival, every household sticks Spring Festival couplets, meaning the New Year, New Year, increase the festive atmosphere, and look very festive.

(3) Zhenye jujube symbolizes good wishes

The ancients pasted Spring Festival couplets to drive away evil spirits and keep them safe, and now people post Spring Festival couplets to express their good wishes, bless the family in the new year, peace and security, and family happiness.

1.The upper and lower couplets of the Spring Festival couplets must be clearly separated: the upper couplets are generally the end of the voice, that is, three or four sounds, and the lower couplets are generally the end of the flat voice, that is, one or two sounds, and the flat ending.

2.The left and right should be clearly distinguished: the sound is on the right, and the flat voice is on the left.

3.The best time to paste Spring Festival couplets (2 periods): 13-15 pm on the 29th day of the lunar month, which means that the coming year will be prosperous; Chinese New Year's Eve from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. means that good things happen this year.