What do you say about women posting couplets?
But most families will find men to paste couplets, because they will be taller and more convenient to paste. On New Year's Eve, we will put up couplets to welcome the New Year. Besides Spring Festival couplets, there is also a festive and New Year atmosphere. The atmosphere of Chinese New Year will be very different if couplets are not posted.
Spring Festival couplets are also a historical and cultural heritage of thousands of years. There are also many precautions for pasting couplets. Especially in rural areas, there are not only Spring Festival couplets at the door, but also Spring Festival couplets everywhere. Granary, water tank, bedside and yard will be posted.
The origin of couplets:
The custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, loved couplets. One year on New Year's Eve, he preached an imperial edict: "When you enter the house, you must add a pair of Spring Festival couplets." On New Year's Day, Taizu traveled incognito and was very happy to see the Spring Festival couplets.
He went to a house and saw that there were no Spring Festival couplets on the door, so he asked why. It turns out that the shopkeeper is a pig killer. He is worried that no one will write Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote down the Spring Festival couplets of "chop the road of life and death with both hands, chop the root of right and wrong with one knife" and gave them to this family.
It can be seen from this story that Zhu Yuanzhang strongly advocated Spring Festival couplets, and it was because of Zhu Yuanzhang's vigorous advocacy that Spring Festival couplets became popular. By the Qing Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets had become a literary form at that time.