2、门对等。有些地方，如果三年内家里有人过世，还要贴其他颜色（如黄、绿、紫色）的春联。Spring Festival Couplets (Chunlian)Spring Festival Couplets, Chunlian in Chinese, is also known as Spring Couplets or Chinese NewYear Couplets. It is the most common and important custom when celebrating Chinese NewYear.
3、This tradition is widely kept both in modern cities and rural areas of China. Writing Spring Festival CoupletsWith black or golden characters written on red paper, SpringFestival Couplets are composed of a pair of poetry lines vertically pasted on both sides of
4、thefront door and a four-character horizontal scroll affixed above the doorframe. Pasting coupletsexpresses people’s delight in the festival and wishes for a better life in the coming year. FeaturesThe first line (upper scroll) and the second line (lower scroll)
5、 have parallel structures andantithetical meanings. The two lines should have an equal number of characters, while theirmeaning must be related and antithetical. There must be a one-to-one correspondence betweenthe two lines. The tone pattern is emphasized but r
6、hythm is not important. The horizontal scrollis a four-character phrase, which sums up the two lines’ meaning. Legend and HistorySpring Couplets originated from Taofu, an inscription on boards made from peach trees in theZhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC). According to
7、the legend, in the ghost world, a rooster perching ina big peach tree will crow at dawn to call all the traveling ghosts back. In front of the entrance ofthe dark world, there are two guards named Shentu and Yulei. If the ghosts harm any people atnight, the guar
8、ds will kill them as the tiger’s breakfast. People believed that peach trees canscare and subdue evil things, so they hung peach boards in front of the doors with the
