What couplets are red plums in bud, standing proudly in winter snow and spitting green willows to welcome the new year?

Red plums in bud, winter snow standing proudly and green willows spitting to welcome the Spring Festival are all couplets of the Spring Festival.

It means: Hongmei blooms proudly in the cold snow and ice. The weather is getting warmer, and the green willows are flying to welcome the arrival of spring.

The "red berries" and "green willows" described in the couplets are all winter scenery in the early Spring Festival Evening, suggesting that this is a Spring Festival couplets. At the same time, red and green are festive colors, expressing people's joy at the arrival of spring.

The origin of Spring Festival couplets;

As early as before the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a custom of hanging peach symbols around the gate every New Year. Fu Tao is two big boards made of peach wood, on which are written the names of the legendary gods who exorcise ghosts and suppress evil spirits. This custom lasted for more than 1000 years.

It was not until the Five Dynasties that people began to put couplets on mahogany boards instead of the names of gods. According to historical records, the couplets inscribed on the bedroom door by Meng Chang, a master of Shu, after New Year's Eve in 964 AD were the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China.

After the Song Dynasty, it has become quite common for people to hang Spring Festival couplets in the New Year. Therefore, Wang Anshi wrote in the poem "January Day" that "thousands of households always change new peaches for old ones" was a true portrayal of the Spring Festival couplets at that time.