Lin Ming-te, professor of Chinese at Fu Jen Catholic University, is an expert in Chinese antithetical couplets, of which those appearing on New Year's scrolls are just one variety. He points out that New Year's scrolls evolved from the ancient peachwood charms against evil.
輔大中文系教授林明德專研中國的對聯，而春聯正是對聯的一種，他指出，春聯應是自為辟邪的桃符演變而來。