The Spring Festival in 2019 is February 5, which is only more than ten days away from the Spring Festival. There are many traditional customs in Chinese new year, among which pasting Spring Festival couplets is a must for every family. So why post Spring Festival couplets for the Chinese new year? What is the origin of the Spring Festival couplets? This article will tell you the origin of pasting Spring Festival couplets in ancient times. After reading it, you will understand why you should paste Spring Festival couplets in the new year.
Why post Spring Festival couplets for the new year?
The custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the post Shu period more than a thousand years ago, as evidenced by history. In addition, according to the jade candle treasure book and the records of Yanjing's age, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets is what people call 'Taofu'.
The origin of Spring Festival couplets should also start from the Tao Fu. It is said in ancient times that there is a big peach tree in dushuo mountain in the East China Sea. Under the peach tree, there are two gods, tea and Yu, in charge of thousands of ghosts. If they encounter a haunting ghost, they tie it up and feed it to the tiger. Later, during the Spring Festival, in order to avoid ghosts, the people painted these two gods on the peach wood board, which is the peach talisman.
In the Five Dynasties, Meng Chang, the Lord of Shu, personally inscribed a couplet on the Taofu, which is regarded as the earliest spring festival couplet. By the Song Dynasty, it had become a custom to stick couplets during the Spring Festival. Wang Anshi wrote in his poem: 'thousands of families always exchange new peaches for old ones. " Writing Spring Festival couplets on red paper began in the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, Taofu was renamed 'Spring Festival couplets'. Chen yunzhan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in his Zan Yun Lou zahua: 'the Spring Festival couplets were set up since the emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. In the imperial capital of Jinling, before the new year's Eve, a message was suddenly sent that a spring festival couplet should be added at the door of Gongqing's family. "
The folk custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets on the spring festival began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, loved couplets. He not only wrote by himself, but also often encouraged his subordinates to write. One new year's Eve, he sent a message: "Gongqing scholar's family must add a spring festival couplet on the door." On the first day of the first day of the lunar new year, Taizu was very happy to see the Spring Festival couplets.
When he went to a family and saw that there were no spring festival couplets on the door, he asked why. It turned out that the owner was a pig killer. He was worried that he couldn't find someone to write Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote down the spring festival couplet "split the road of life and death with both hands and cut off the roots of right and wrong with one knife" and gave it to the family. From this story, we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang's strong advocacy of Spring Festival couplets promoted the popularity of Spring Festival couplets&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;