The Origin and Evolution of Spring Festival Couplets 5, The Origin and Evolution of Spring Festival

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This folk material preserved in the miscellaneous opera is very precious, and it records the evolution process from peach charms to spring couplets. This is the middle link of evolution, which is typical: on the one hand, it is still wooden, it is a peach charm; On the one hand, the four characters are opposite, and they are close to couplets; The important thing is that although the peach charm in transition has the ancient meaning of "warding off evil spirits", "it is appropriate to enter the New Year" and "longevity and wealth" are already more festive and festive Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets first originated from the peach symbol, and some people in the five dynasties and ten palaces wrote couplets on the peach symbol. By the Qing Dynasty, all aspects of the Spring Festival couplets had improved, and the Spring Festival couplets had become a literary art at that time.

Spring Festival couplets were first evolved from peach charms to ward off evil spirits. As early as the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, there was a custom of hanging peach charms during the Chinese New Year. Later, the peach charm was gradually simplified, and a peach shape was drawn on square red paper, and the names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei were written instead.

After arriving in the Tang Dynasty, some auspicious words were written on the red paper, and then the battle was decorated, and today's Spring Festival couplets were slowly formed. After the Song Dynasty, it has been quite common for folk New Year to hang Spring Festival couplets, and the sentence of "thousands of households on the day of the new peach" in Wang Anshi's poem is a true portrayal of the grand occasion at that time.

Because the appearance of the Spring Festival couplets is closely related to the peach symbol, the ancients also called the Spring Festival couplets as the peach symbol. In the Song Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets were still called peach symbols, and the peach charms were really called Spring Festival couplets in the Ming Dynasty. After the advocacy of the founding emperor Minjue Zhu Yuanzhang, the Spring Festival couplets became an indispensable folk custom for the New Year.

After entering the Qing Dynasty, couplets were at their peak, and there were many well-known couplets.

Zhang Zhong said that with the passage of time, Spring Festival couplets have become a broad concept, and many affiliated categories have emerged. According to the place of use, it is divided into several types, such as frame pairs, horizontal batches, spring strips, and bucket catties. The frame is pasted on the left and right door frames, which is our common Spring Festival couplet; The horizontal batch is pasted on the horizontal wood of the lintel, which is the horizontal batch of the Spring Festival couplet; Spring strips are a single piece of text pasted in the corresponding place according to different contents, such as words such as "look up and see joy" pasted in the courtyard; Bucket Jin is a square diamond shape, mostly pasted on furniture, single door or shadow wall, the Spring Festival everyone likes to paste the word "Fu", which belongs to this kind of Doujin.

Folklore experts said that with the development of cultural exchanges in various countries, the Spring Festival couplets have gradually been introduced to Vietnam, North Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries.

The original Spring Festival couplets in China were made of two pieces of peach wood cut into wooden strips, on which were painted with gods, Yu Lei and a tiger. Why is that?

Legend has it that a long time ago, in a peach forest on Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, there lived two brothers who were extremely powerful, the elder brother was called Shen Tu, and the younger brother was called Yu Lei. The brothers took good care of the peach forest, so that there were many peaches in the peach forest, and the people nearby said that this was a "fairy peach", and eating it could prolong life.

In the northeastern part of the Dushuo Mountains, there lives a very cruel wild prince. He heard that there were fairy fruits in the peach forest, so he sent someone to pick them, but he was driven away by Shen Tu and Yu Lei. The wild prince disguised himself as a blue-faced and fanged ghost and prepared to murder the brothers, but was captured alive by the brothers and fed to the tiger.

The news spread. Ten, ten spread hundreds, and the names and skills of the brothers Shen Tu and Yu Lei spread farther and farther. After the brothers died, it was said that they went to heaven and were named gods to punish ghosts, and the peach forest they planted during their lifetime could ward off evil spirits.

So, every New Year, people cut off two pieces of peach wood, painted with gods, Yu Lei and tigers, hung by the door, in order to drive away disasters and suppress evil spirits, because it is made of peach wood strips, so it is called "peach charm".

In the five generations more than 1,000 years ago, the peach charm gradually evolved into spring couplets.

It is said that in the fifth dynasty, Meng Chang, the lord of Later Shu, ordered the scholar Xin Yinxun to write two auspicious sentences on the peach rune plate on the Chinese New Year's Eve in 964 AD. These two couplets of his are the first Spring Festival couplets in the history of our country.

Summary. Kiss. The origin and historical origin of the Spring Festival are:

Spring Festival couplets, also known as Spring Festival couplet poems, originated in the Tang Dynasty, mainly referring to the auspicious and blessed sentences written on the lintel with bamboo slips before the Spring Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In ancient times, a Spring Festival couplet was hung at the door of the house, which was the best form of auspicious celebration and a symbol of the cultural accomplishment of the common people. Spring Festival couplets originated in the Tang Dynasty, and at that time it had become a part of festival culture and literature such as lantern riddles, couplets, and couplets, and was a way for the ancients to express their sweet emotions.

With the development of the times, the content of the Spring Festival couplets has gradually developed from the initial declarative text to the changes of overlapping words, counting words, and ghostly workmanship. To this day, Spring Festival couplets are still widely used in traditional festivals and are an important part of traditional culture.

Kiss. The origin and historical origin of the Spring Festival are: Spring Festival couplets, also known as Spring Festival couplet poems, originated in the Tang Dynasty, mainly referring to the auspicious and blessed sentences written on the lintel with bamboo slips before the Spring Festival on the fifteenth day of the coarse month.

In ancient times, a Spring Festival couplet was hung at the door of the house, which was the best form of auspicious celebration and a symbol of the cultural accomplishment of the common people. Spring Festival couplets originated in the Tang Dynasty, and at that time it had become a part of festival culture and literature such as lantern riddles, couplets, and couplets, and was a way for the ancients to express their sweet emotions. With the development of the times, the content of the Spring Festival couplets has gradually developed from the initial declarative text to the changes of overlapping words, counting words, and ghostly workmanship.

To this day, Spring Festival couplets are still widely used in traditional festivals and are an important part of traditional culture.

Kiss. Spring Festival couplets have a long history, originated from ancient Chinese culture, as early as the Yuan Dynasty has been recorded The main content of the Spring Festival couplets is to pray for the health <>of the family in the New Year, all the best, etc

There is also a pro-Spring Festival couplet** in the peach charm, which is used to ward off evil spirits. Spring Festival couplets ** in the peach fu, in the "Hou Han Shu Etiquette Chronicles" record, the peach fu is six inches long, three inches wide, and the peach wood board is written "Shen Tu" and "Crack Pei Yu Lei" two gods. On the first day of the first lunar month, the peach charm is made, the name is immortal, and the ghosts are afraid.

When the five chambers were combined, in the court of Xishu, someone inscribed couplets on the peach symbol. The Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "The Spring Festival couplets are the only peach charms that are round."

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the cultural rituals supporting the door god were formed, and the door god was strengthened to drive away evil spirits and ward off ghosts, protect the family house, keep peace, help utilitarianism, and reduce auspiciousness