South Korea also posts Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year. Why are their Spring Festival couplets with black characters on a white background?

The main reason is that Korean Spring Festival couplet culture is still different from ours. The white background and black characters of Spring Festival couplets are also inherited from Korean culture. Chinese Spring Festival couplets are known as "Beginning of Spring List", "Beginning of Spring Book", "Beginning of Spring Post" and "Beginning of Spring Blessings". Korean Spring Festival and Chinese Spring Festival are on the same day. They are all on the day of the Beginning of Spring, which is the beginning of a new year. People will write their best wishes on Spring Festival couplets, hoping that their wishes will come true in the new year. Unlike Chinese Spring Festival couplets with black characters on a red background, Korean Spring Festival couplets have black characters on a white background.

The time of posting the vernal equinox is different. In South Korea, the time of posting the vernal equinox is on the same day as the beginning of spring, and it must be posted according to the exact time of the beginning of spring. The Goryeo Dynasty was the first time that Spring Festival couplets were discovered. Spring couplets were first spread by the ruling class in Korea, but in us they are a folk custom. When the Spring Festival comes, local officials will give the leader a five-character poem and choose the best sentences to stick on the pillars of the palace. In Korea, this custom is spread from the top down. It first became popular among the royal family and civil and military ministers because they were proficient in Chinese.

In the eyes of Koreans, the beginning of spring is the beginning of the year and a transitional period of the year. If one wants to be lucky, this is the day most likely to change. As soon as the beginning of spring arrives, Koreans are ready to start posting Spring Festival couplets in every household. The most common Spring Festival couplets they post are the eight characters "Good luck in spring, many celebrations in Jianyang". Although Korean is now popular, the beginnings of spring posts are still written in Chinese characters.

And Koreans prefer diagonal stickers, which are similar to domestic seals. Although Spring Festival couplets are just a product of customs, they carry people's expectations for a better tomorrow and become a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and South Korea. China and South Korea have deep cultural ties, despite their ups and downs.