Spring Festival couplets and their meanings

1, in the new year, Mei Kaichun is brilliant and Zhu Bao is safe. Meaning: It expresses people's good wishes for the new year.

2, another year of grass green, still ten miles of apricot red. Meaning: It depicts beautiful spring scenery.

It is said that Spring Festival couplets come from the symbol of peach. According to the Book of Rites, the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the words "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, I made a peach symbol for this family and named it Xianmu. All ghosts are afraid of it." In the Five Dynasties, in the court of West Shu, someone wrote couplets on peach symbols. In the Qing Dynasty, Yanjing Shi Sui Ji said: "Spring Festival couplets are also Fu Tao."

Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck. ?

It is said that this custom originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Sticking Spring Festival couplets has become a custom now. Red couplets were posted on the gate, and the room suddenly lit up. Just as the poem says, "Smile with joy, and every household sticks Spring Festival couplets;" Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and the wheel of time will move forward forever. "