In the Northern Song Dynasty, people still used peach charms, so it is understandable that people in the Tang Dynasty did not know about Spring Festival couplets.
Of course, peach charms are actually quite different from the modern Spring Festival couplets.
After all, Spring Festival couplets are more about the words.
The earliest recognized Spring Festival couplets were written by Meng Chang, the emperor of the Later Shu Dynasty in the Five Dynasties.
It is said that this man had a sudden inspiration one year during the Spring Festival and wrote a couplet, "New Year brings more blessings, the festival is called Everlasting Spring", and posted it on the door. From then on, it became the Spring Festival couplets and has been passed down for more than a thousand years.
Meng Chang is also known as the originator of Spring Festival couplets.
However, there has always been controversy as to whether "New Year brings more blessings, and the festival is called Changchun" is the earliest Spring Festival couplet.
For example, Liang Zhangju, a famous couplet scholar in the Qing Dynasty, held an opposing view.
However, Liang Zhangju did not give a clear answer, but only vaguely said: "I don't know whether there is any evidence to prove it before."
What I mean is, I don’t know if there was one before it, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one.
It's like aliens. Although the scientific community has always recognized that there are no aliens and no real aliens have been discovered, the lack of discovery does not mean that they do not exist.
It remains to be verified which dynasty the earliest Spring Festival couplets originated from.
But when you ask when Spring Festival couplets became popular, there is no doubt that it was the Ming Dynasty.
The person who contributed the most to the development of Spring Festival couplets was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Not only did he come up with the term "Spring Festival couplets", he also issued a decree specifically for the mandatory promotion of Spring Festival couplets: "Every noble and scholar's home must hang a pair of Spring Festival couplets on the door."
Upon hearing that it was Zhu Yuanzhang who first popularized Spring Festival couplets and how they have been passed down to this day, Li Er's eyes darted and he immediately said to the little girl, "Sizi, quickly send my father back. He's definitely got the job of Spring Festival promotion ambassador. Even if the fourth son of the Zhu family comes, he can't keep him. I'm telling you..."
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