What are the Chinese New Year couplets?

1, the first line: the old year and add a few happy The next line: the new year a higher level? The next couplet is: the new year will be a better place. The next couplet: Spring is in the air

3. The first couplet: Happy day for the family to have a good life The next couplet: Sunny day for the spring return to the earth? The next couplet is: the spring is the day of the sun

4, the first couplet: more work more gain everyone happy The next couplet: abundant harvest years sweet The crossword: the situation is gratifying

5, the first couplet: magnificent mountains and rivers of colorful The next couplet: civilized country all high winds? The next couplet is: the civilized country is full of high winds. Banner: Welcome the Spring and receive the blessing

7, the first couplet: Fukwang wealth and luck Next couplet: the family Xingxing people Xing career Xing Banner: joyful door

8, the first couplet: the earth flowing gold all things pass Next couplet: the winter to spring all things are new Banner: celebrate the Spring Festival

9, the first couplet: the earth song calling colorful clouds Next couplet: full of spring can not be shut off the garden Banner: spring full of garden

10, the first couplet: the millennium? Welcome the new spring? The next couplet: Rui Xue Zhao Feng Nian (瑞雪兆丰年) horizontal: year after year

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One of the Spring Festival Couplets is said to have originated from the Peach Symbol. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty (后汉书-礼仪志), the peach symbols were six inches long and three inches wide, with the gods "Shentian" and "Yubi" written on the mahogany boards. "On the first day of the first month, make peach symbols on the household, the name of the immortal wood, all the ghosts are afraid of." During the Five Dynasties, in the court of Western Sichuan, some people raised and wrote couplings on peach charms. The Qing Dynasty "Yanjing Times and Years Records" on the said, "spring couplets, that is, peach symbols also."

Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the spring stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

It is said that this custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved. Now it has become a custom to post spring couplets, red couplets pasted on the front door, the house is suddenly bright. As the poem says: "Joy at the door red Yeon, households posted Spring Festival couplets; the old year to say goodbye to welcome the new year, the chronological wheel always forward."