The latest Spring Festival couplets for the Year of the Tiger 2022 will be sold in the twelfth lunar month of 2021. In the year when the tiger spirit is born, the zodiac sign is tiger, and the spring breeze is always here to welcome the spring. Horizontal batch, five blessings all over the world. The tiger spirit frequently turns over the old scene, and the spring breeze creates a new chapter. Horizontal batch, the situation is gratifying. The tiger has two wings and the future is bright, and the country has a grand plan and a new career. Horizontally, the mountains and rivers are magnificent. Tigers roar, mountains offer treasures, and dragons soar, showing off the power of the motherland. Horizontal batch, welcome the spring and receive blessings. The roaring tiger mountain is thousands of miles away, and the wind blows the green willows and spring in thousands of places. Hengbiao, full of joy.
The origin of Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets were not called Spring Festival couplets at first, but were called Taofu. It is said that the origin of sticking peach charms is very early. At that time, the purpose of sticking peach charms was to drive away monsters and ghosts. Legend has it that in ancient times there was an extremely ferocious monster that often did evil and harmed people, but nothing could stop it. Later, there were two gods who specialized in exterminating monsters. They used peach branches to subdue the monster.
Therefore, it was spread among the people that if I hung peach branches with the names of the two gods on the door, the monsters would not dare to come near. Later, such peach branches were called peach charms, and peach charms became popular.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, peach symbols evolved into Spring Festival couplets. According to records, Meng Chang, the lord of Later Shu, asked Zhang Xun to inscribe an inscription on peach wood. After he finished writing, Meng Chang felt that something was wrong, so he wrote again, "New Year's Day, Happy Festival, Changchun". This is China's first couplet, and in At that time, it was also called a peach charm.
Later, with the advent of paper, peach wood was replaced by red paper. The real appearance of Spring Festival couplets was during the period of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang required every household to post Spring Festival couplets, so the streets and alleys were covered with Spring Festival couplets.