Show Your Spring Couplets

Posted by Vikki Lv 3903

As the report of World Journal goes, a 16-year-old Chinese-American girl named Phalaen Chang is creating Spring Couplets and the character FU in LA in recent days. She attracts so many passengers’ attention, and even some readers mail to the service station to ask her for a favor to write some calligraphy characters.

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Photo by Li Xue (World Journal)

Spring Couplets as a Chinese New Year decoration, are an integral part of China's New Year. Their beginnings go back as far as the origins of New Year's festivities.

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“ According to legends in the China's ancient past, there was an evil creature known as Nian who often came down from the mountains to eat livestock and locals. It was discovered that he was afraid of the color red and so red paper was placed around doors and windows of houses and poems for good luck were added to them. The houses with the red paper were avoided by the monster, so its inhabitants were spared. The tradition has continued until today. ”

Chinese people love to stick couplets on the Spring Festival, which are also written on red paper. Spring scrolls, also known as spring posts, are poems written on red rice-paper to celebrate the New Year. During the Spring Festival, every family pastes the Spring Festival couplets on their doors to express sincere blessings and good wishes.

Adults and Children like to create spring couplets on the day.

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