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Knowledge about Spring Festival couplets (about 20 words)

Spring couplets are also called "spring posts" and "door pairs". Every Spring Festival, every household pastes red Spring Festival couplets on their doors, adding to the festive atmosphere. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes with neatly contrasted, concise and exquisite words. It is a unique literary form of the Han nationality.

There is no limit to the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets, but they must be equal. Both sides of the couplet must correspond to each other. When people paste Spring Festival couplets and blessings on their doorsteps, it means that the Spring Festival has officially begun.

Extended information:

Posting Spring Festival couplets is the first thing Chinese people do to celebrate the Spring Festival. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household pastes brand new Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the door, with black characters on a red background, steady and bright.

Express the good wishes of each family for the New Year, such as "the six animals are prosperous and the grain is abundant"; or it is related to the Chinese nation's culture of chronology of the stems and branches. The Spring Festival couplets are embedded with "rat", "ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse", "Sheep" and other zodiac animal names, such as "Koi flies to reward Polygala; Auspicious sheep kneels at breast to express gratitude" etc.

Some Spring Festival couplets also reflect the different "views of happiness" in different industries and families. Therefore, carefully studying the Spring Festival couplets posted by people during the Spring Festival is undoubtedly a meaningful way to observe folk customs.

The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets began in the Hou Shu period more than a thousand years ago, which can be confirmed in historical records. In addition, according to records such as "Wang Zhu Baodian" and "Yanjing Chronicles", the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Peach Talisman".