As early as the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago, the Central Plains region hung "peach stalks" on the Spring Festival, also known as "peach symbols". Fu Cha Dunchong's "Yanjing Years" in Qing Dynasty recorded: "Spring Festival couplets are also in Fu Tao." The relationship between Spring Festival couplets and Taofu can also be seen from the traditional Spring Festival couplets, such as "firecrackers to get rid of the old, Taofu to get back", and Wang Anshi's poem "Every family always trades new peaches for the old ones".
In the Song Dynasty, couplets were not only engraved on peach symbols, but also used on pillars, which were later called "couplets". In the Ming Dynasty, "Fu Tao" was really called "Spring Festival couplets". According to Chen, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, "When public officials or scholars are at home, they must put up Spring Festival couplets at the door so that the emperor can go out."
Tradition of couplets
Couplets, also known as antithesis, door-to-door, spring stickers, Spring Festival couplets, couplets and so on. It is a antithesis written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique artistic form of Chinese. Couplets are the treasures of China traditional culture.
The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and later 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 to welcome the good fortune. Couplets are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of Chinese, concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure.