Spring Festival couplets

~ Spring Festival couplets ~

Red is the most popular color during the New Year. People likes to wear red clothes, red bags, even red underwears. Because red represent luck.

So do spring festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets refer to Spring Festival couplets refer to antithetical couplets written on scrolls which convey people's wishes for peace, fortune and good-luck with concise and matching words.

Where do we post these?
The couplets can be pasted on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall. couplets written on scrolls which convey people's wishes for peace, fortune and good-luck with concise and matching words.
The couplets can be pasted on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall.

Origin

The custom of writing couplets on peach panels started in the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907), and became popular in the Song dynasty (960-1279). The couplets earned their official name from Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor who opened the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and had become a form of art by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

This year is a rat year. So we always draw words or images about mice on Spring Festival couplets.