Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door pairs", "couplets" and "peach symbols", are one of the red festive elements "Year Red" posted during the New Year. It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for Chinese New Year in China. When people put up Spring Festival couplets (Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles, etc. ) At their doorstep, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicked off.
Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. 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.