Rejuvenation is also called Spring Festival couplets, couplets and blessing stickers. Cantonese calls it rejuvenation, and Minnan calls it Zai Chun. Its origin can be divided into three aspects: Yichun Post, Fu Tao and Xiang Yan's poems. This is a traditional decoration used at the beginning of the Spring Festival and spring. The auspicious words of the New Year are written in beautiful calligraphy on paper, usually posted on walls and doors.
Traditional spring stickers are handwritten with a brush, and now there are also spring stickers printed by machines. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, such as street couplets and door couplets, and many Spring Festival couplets have horizontal approvals. China people have many auspicious traditional customs during the Lunar New Year. New Year's Spring Festival couplets were posted in the residence years ago, representing going to the old and welcoming the new year. There are many styles of waving spring, besides the word "Fu", there are also various Chinese characters waving spring to pray for good luck in the new year.
Hui Chun introduced.
The tradition of posting Spring Festival couplets has a long history and is said to be related to Li Shimin. It is said that whenever Li Shimin sleeps, some ghosts haunt outside his palace. From time to time, someone threw stones at his room and made strange noises, which annoyed Li Shimin, so he discussed countermeasures with the minister. At that time, the famous soldier Qin volunteered to guard outside his bedroom, and another general was willing to guard the gate together.
The two generals stood outside the bedroom wearing military uniforms and holding weapons. I don't know if the ghost was afraid of the power of the two generals and stayed up all night. Li Shimin can sleep peacefully and handle state affairs peacefully during the day. Later, Li Shimin ordered the two generals to be painted as portraits. And put the portrait on the door, this portrait became a door god, and this custom gradually flowed into China folk. The custom of sticking door gods was later transformed into sticking Spring Festival couplets, which pay attention to neatness, duality, plainness and exquisiteness, and the characters inside depict the background of the times.
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