Essays on Spring Festival couplets

Sketch 1 Post Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve again. Every year at this time, I always put a bowl of paste on it, tear off the old Spring Festival couplets that have faded to gray last year and replace them with new ones with gold characters on a red background. Doing this well means the end of the past year and the beginning of a new year. Always changing new peaches for old ones, considering that the ancients had enough trouble at that time, or modern people saved energy, a few pieces of red paper would be appropriate.

Spring Festival couplets, like the Spring Festival Gala, are in a worse position in people's minds. In the past, posting Spring Festival couplets was definitely a big event. And there must be rules, and it must be posted in the early morning of the first day. It is an old saying that whoever posts early will have good luck. As a result, every day on the first day, our neighbors have to get up early. When it was just dawn, they had already smeared the paste in the house and then ran out to paste it. Sometimes when we see other people posting, we have to smile and speed up. In fact, we don't necessarily want good luck to come, just have a competitive heart.

Spring Festival couplets must be posted, on the one hand, because of the above factors, on the other hand, because the northeast is too cold. At that time, the climate was more than ten degrees colder than it is now, and it often reached MINUS 356 degrees during the Spring Festival. If you run slowly and don't wait for the door, the paste on the Spring Festival couplets will freeze into lumps. Now you have to take it into the house and bake it on the fire for a while.

The Spring Festival couplets in those days were very particular, not only timely, but also timely. As long as it is a door, it should be posted. Bedroom, living room, kitchen, and sometimes even the door of the warehouse where firewood is placed, a pair should be posted. Needless to say, there should be a head on the wall and a sign on the window. It is a kind of paper-cut, and some auspicious patterns are cut on it. Red and green are fluttering in the wind, which looks good. The word "Fu" is as important as Spring Festival couplets. The word "Fu" at the gate must be pasted upside down, and its homonym is "Fu is here."

Now all this red tape has gone further and further, and there is no need to wait until the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, and there is no need to worry. Especially for people who live in the building, the hole in the building is relatively narrow, and sometimes they will come out together to post Spring Festival couplets, but they can't show them. There will always be a humble smile. You go first, and I'll post them later.

This shows that the significance of Spring Festival couplets is not as important as before. With some traditional things getting farther and farther away from modern life, people seem to be thinking deeply. How can we make a Spring Festival have an annual flavor, whether it is retro or innovative? These all need our consideration.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a top priority for Chinese New Year, and every household is never careless.

Before the old house in the countryside was demolished, we spent a whole morning pasting all the doors, windows and objects in the east, west and main rooms of the yard with festive Spring Festival couplets. The beams in the house, the partitions, and the back walls of other people's homes outside the gate are like this year after year. The label of the former is "Looking up to see happiness", while the label of the latter is "Going out to see happiness". Then, paste "Six Livestock Flourishing" on chicken coops and sheepfolds, "Infinite Spring" on wells and tree trunks, "Purple gas comes from the east" and "auspicious celebration is more than enough" on courtyard walls, and even garbage trucks should paste couplets, or "bid farewell to the old and welcome the new" or "Peace in the Four Seasons".

At that time, all the Spring Festival couplets were written by my father. The vigorous brushwork summed up the hopes and expectations of the year on a rectangular red paper. The door that goes in and out every day is "good luck shines high" on the head and "good luck every year, good luck every year" on both sides. It is enough for ordinary people to live a stable, smooth and small progress in their ordinary lives.

Wanghuo is located in the local yard, just opposite the courtyard gate. It is labeled as "Wang Qi Soaring into the Sky". At 30 o'clock in the evening, the big carbon poured with oil soon became red. In the sound of firecrackers sending off the old year, you prosper and I prosper, and the atmosphere of the New Year is really in full swing.

There are colorful "big characters" hanging under the eaves, swishing in the wind. Chinese characters are a kind of Spring Festival couplets. The paper is more than a foot long, and each paper has one word, mostly four-character idioms. I like to read "big characters" since I was a child: the beginning of a dollar. Spring is back. Birds are singing and flowers are fragrant. Vientiane is updated. Good weather. People live a long life. Self-reliance. Strong financial resources. Poetic fluency, reading and reading to unlimited reverie and beauty; When you read, you read your childhood as a teenager, and you read an adult teenager.

Until now, I still remember the words "Fu" and "Chun" posted in my old house. "Spring" is growth and hope, "happiness" is smoothness and wishful thinking. People who can have and cherish these two words are happy all their lives. At the entrance of the courtyard, it is posted that "flowers bloom early in Xiangyang courtyard, and hard-working families are happy." During the Chinese New Year, my father did not forget to warn us in red paper and black letters that being down-to-earth and diligent is the guarantee of a happy life.

I heard that one year, my uncle's life was always difficult to improve. During the Spring Festival, he wrote an original seven-character couplet and posted it at home. The first part is "God will be poor every year", and the second part is "Don't meet again this year". The best part is questioning those three words-"Ask the God of Wealth".

Time flies, the days in the Spring Festival couplets, no one can say clearly.

Now living in a tall building, there is only one door, Spring Festival couplets, just need to post a picture. Post what? Just post "Spring is here all year round, and flowers bloom forever", don't you think?

Sketch 3 posted on the Spring Festival couplets stepped into the threshold of the twelfth lunar month, breaking ground in the wind and sprouting green buds in the ice and snow in the new year; The taste of the year is like bubbling on the water, gurgling out and getting stronger and stronger; Especially after Laba Festival, the annual flavor is more sticky. ...

Walking on the streets of the city, I saw that the port city gradually turned into a red sea: red lanterns began to appear constantly, hanging in front of units and residents, and sold in open-air markets and street stalls; Chinese characters, couplets, New Year pictures and auspicious ornaments can be seen everywhere, posted on doors and placed in street markets in rows. All kinds of stalls for new year's goods, food, snacks and alcohol are piled up in rows, and their boxes are gold-plated, hot silver, red and green; Firecracker stalls can be seen everywhere, and a few hooks will be put from time to time to attract customers; Street children set off firecrackers, covered their ears and screamed, jumping up and down. ...

After the reform and opening up, the policy of enriching the people has made the land of China prosperous and take on a new look.

Being downtown reminds me of yesterday and the past countryside. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was far from such a prosperous year. Farmers can be happy during the New Year, but they are extremely poor materially. Singing and laughing are constantly floating in the streets and alleys, and even the usual chat and greetings have become jubilant, and the whole village is beaming. However, the villagers are inevitably worried, heavy and melancholy, and worried about this "excessive poverty" bitter life. For the New Year's Eve dinner, it was the farmers who hurt their waist and worked hard to prepare this horrible holiday meal.

Under the arrangement of mom and dad, we have been busy for many days to clean up and prepare for the holiday. Mom and sister, catch up with the country party to buy food and clothing. Dad also bought some from the city. When my mother cleaned the house thoroughly, she used newspapers to paste the ceiling of the house with us, and then steamed out several pots of white happiness cakes. We also cleaned the yard outside the courtyard and collected it cleanly; Then fill the water tank. The end of the year arrived as scheduled. Everything is ready at home and outside. On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, when it was dark, I cooked on the stove, and my mother cooked it in the cauldron. My brother and I started posting Spring Festival couplets.

Father bought Spring Festival couplets and blessings from the county by the way. There are black characters and gold characters on the big red paper. According to the traditional customs in rural areas, Spring Festival couplets, invitations and blessings should be posted at home and outside. The Spring Festival couplets at the street gate are the most important. You post them first. My brother and I brushed the paste on the door with a straw for cooking, and looked at it with a gesture and a palm. It's unlucky that the sticker is crooked or high and low! Carefully measure the height and vertical left and right, and then formally press the Spring Festival couplets on the door panel for compaction and adhesion. The common content is "smooth sailing all the year round, all the best in life", and the horizontal approval is "good luck"; "I am happy to live in the treasure house of the Millennium, and I am blessed to take care of everything at home", and I unanimously approved "Welcome the Spring Festival"; "Over time, people live longer, and spring is full of kung fu", and "spring is full of people" and so on. The couplet is grand and serious. The success or failure of this ceremony simply symbolizes and determines the good luck, peace and happiness of the whole family for one year.

Stick it up and stand in front of the door and watch. Immediately, the red Spring Festival couplets suddenly rendered the atmosphere of New Year and New Year. Heart suddenly increased a few minutes of joy. Stick to the street door and then stick to the door, stick to the door, the outer door, the east and west wing doors, etc. The content is similar, all of which are auspicious, safe, rich and happy.

Outside the street gate, on the wall of other people's homes, you should post "Go out to see happiness" and "Go out for good luck"; If there is your own tree or someone else's tree outside the door, and there are telephone poles on the roadside, you should paste "Go out to see happiness" or "Go out for good luck"; On the wall of the courtyard opposite the main entrance of the house, "Go out to see happiness" should also be posted; The grain store outside the hospital should also post couplets, at least with a blessing or a single post, such as "Good harvest of grain", "Man Cang of grain and rice" and "More than one year"; Stick "Fruitful Fruit" or "Safe and Lucky" on the trunk of the fruit tree in the courtyard; Next to the chicken coop, duck coop and rabbit coop, put up a piece of "Golden Chicken Singing Spring" or "Chicken and Duck Full Cage" and "Jade Rabbit Lucky"; The wall of the pigsty should be pasted with "full circle of fat pigs" or "prosperity of six animals"; The stroller is made in the yard, and it will celebrate the New Year! Post "auspicious entry and exit" or "safety of drivers and passengers"; Outside the big pickle jar, "the dish is full" is posted; Auspicious stickers such as "Looking up to see happiness" and "Taikang Life Insurance" should also be posted inside and outside the toilet ... Anyway, they should be posted everywhere. Things, things and people will join hands to celebrate the new year, welcome the new year and show happiness!

No couplets are posted on the indoor beams, but banners of "Looking up to see happiness" or "Good luck" can be posted; A big square sticker should be put on the wall of the house, which says "blessed", which means "blessed"! On the walls on both sides of the heatable adobe sleeping platform, in addition to the new year pictures of big fat dolls, couplets are attached next to the pictures; On the inside and outside of the door of each room, small door couplets are also posted, or several single posts are posted above the single posts, such as "looking up at happiness", "happiness" and "having plenty of food and clothing"; The pressure wells in the hospital should be vertically affixed with "auspicious wells" and "abundant wells"; The water tank is affixed with "a long stream of fine water" and "a treasure trove of feng shui"; On the edge of the stone mill, you should post "full food"; Face basin, face basin, vegetable altar, pots and pans should be affixed with small blessings or single stickers; Wardrobes, boxes and cabinets should also be affixed with blessings or single stickers. In any case, everything at home and outside should be dyed red to celebrate the New Year together. Red symbolizes happiness, auspiciousness, auspiciousness and happiness.

We should also worship the kitchen god, paste the portrait of the kitchen god on the back wall of the kitchen stove, and paste couplets on both sides, "God speaks well and the next world is safe", so that the kitchen god can speak well and ensure food and clothing in the coming year.

On New Year's Eve, a family tree is posted on the wall of one's own hall to worship the ancestors. On both sides of the family tree, there are couplets of "children and grandchildren are full of prosperity" or "wealth and splendor". Waiting for midnight on New Year's Eve, lighting incense, offering fruit bowls, meals and snacks to worship ancestors, and praying for their care and blessing, so that the whole family will be safe, auspicious and prosperous.

Indoor, both sides of the window should also post couplets and horizontal comments, and a small blessing should be posted above the left and right couplets. Paper-cut frames should be posted on the wooden windows, and the content is also auspicious lotus seeds, abundant fish every year, safe and auspicious. All posts and couplets are big red!

Spring Festival couplets are full of festive peace and joy. Red couplets are filled with people's wishes and hopes for the new year, and filled with the simple vision of villagers pursuing prosperity, auspiciousness and well-being. The villagers are eagerly looking forward to a good harvest in the coming year, food, clothing and a stable life.

By the New Year's Eve, all the red doors are in place. The corners, trunks and telephone poles in front of and behind the house are covered with red couplets, blessings and invitations. Streets and alleys are decorated and rendered in red, which ignites the joyful atmosphere and festive atmosphere. The small village is immersed in the thick flavor of the year. These days, children set off firecrackers from time to time, and there are some fragrant firecrackers in the countryside. ...

However, the most prosperous, solemn and sacred ceremony on New Year's Day was to wait until 00:00:00 on New Year's Day, when an earth-shattering firecracker exploded. As an introduction, as a leader, the new year came late! Everything is ready except the east wind. Everything is ready, let's cheer quietly and look forward to the official debut of the Spring Festival-Chinese New Year!

Sticking Spring Festival couplets, also called couplets among the people here, is the custom of every China people for the New Year. No matter how rich or poor their families are, no matter how profound their culture is, they should turn their beautiful dreams for the coming year into cadences and stick them on their doorposts and doors.

When I was a child in my hometown, whenever there was a door, I had to post it. Even the bellows, stove, water tank, bedside, pigsty, henhouse and farm tools should be affixed with bright red Spring Festival couplets, but the contents of these places are basically fixed, such as "wind and thunder" on the bellows, "fragrance" on the stove, "stream" on the water tank and "corpse" on the bedside. At that time, the happiest thing was that the family took turns writing Spring Festival couplets around the long table. In order to pick up the brush, everyone liked to take a brush class at that time. When the twelfth lunar month came, they began to look for places to practice, either on stones, in newspapers or in the air. The contents of couplets are all thought up by the whole family, holding each other's words. As for whether the format is symmetrical, there is nothing to pay attention to, as long as it is festive and auspicious.

In my impression, Spring Festival couplets are often posted near evening, and the weather is very cold. One person holds the paste, the other person holds the broom and the Spring Festival couplets, and sticks the Spring Festival couplets in different positions, big or small, positive or oblique, long or short, with different fonts. Then both of them rubbed their little hands stained with red by Spring Festival couplets, and they were a little sore with cold. They stood at a distance to see if the label was correct. If not, they will take them off and put them on. When all the couplets are posted, I always ask my family to comment on the contents of each couplet. The family is always happy to see the yard full of rich couplets with bright future.

At that time, it was a habit to invite friends and relatives to watch Spring Festival couplets early the next morning after posting them to see whose handwriting was good or whose content was good. If you write it yourself, be sure to let your partner into the yard to "appreciate" your Spring Festival couplets. At that time, we were all good at talking. If the handwriting is not good-looking, we say the content is good. If the content is not good, say that the handwriting is good, but it is good anyway. We also know that this is not true, but it does not affect our happiness at all.

After graduating from college, I went to the city, especially after I settled in the city. Spring Festival or Spring Festival couplets. But the Spring Festival couplets at this time are much brighter than those in my hometown. The Spring Festival couplets here are not written in ink, but in gold powder, glittering. I didn't write it myself, but it was printed by the machine. It looks neat and clean. The font is in my notebook, which is much better than what we wrote. Even the way to paste Spring Festival couplets is different. No need to stick it, just stick it with scotch tape. After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, your hands will not be red and black. I feel that the Spring Festival in the city is still better than that in the countryside, such as posting Spring Festival couplets.

The children are a little older. On New Year's Day, I asked my children to walk around the neighborhood and the street to see which couplets were well written. The child accepted the task happily, took a small notebook and said that he could write it down when he saw something good. At first, the child was still very interested and recited several couplets. After wandering around for half an hour, the child refused to wander around and said that he would go home. I said why, don't I want to enjoy the Spring Festival couplets? The child said, Dad, you are so nearsighted. Don't you see that every family is similar? The content is similar, the font is similar, and they are all printed, which is boring. Then the child went home without looking back. I stood there, looked around by myself, it was true, and followed me home. I feel as if I owe my child, and I have never given my child such a task again. Sticking Spring Festival couplets every year has become my own task, and children rarely reach out to help.

This year's Spring Festival is coming, so it's time to post Spring Festival couplets. I said to my daughter, who is already in senior three, what about this year's Spring Festival couplets? The child said, you can buy a pair in the street or go to the bank business hall to get a pair. It's just a formality anyway. I said it would be boring. How about we have something interesting? The child asked him what he thought. I know that children have also taken calligraphy classes, so we will write them ourselves. Who does the child ask to write to? I said me, your mother and you, there is only one door in our house, let's think for ourselves. The child asked timidly, can I? I said, why not? At least I won't write wrong words, as long as it makes sense and we are happy. My proposal was approved by her mother, and we all agreed, so let's try it.

I found a dusty brush and red paper, cut it quickly and put it on the dining table. There was no ink at home, so my daughter went to the stationery store to buy it back. Then, our family of three began to scramble for content. Finally, her mother made a sentence called "the Year of the Loong Zi Long lives in Tommy Tam", and her daughter asked, "What's the point?" Mom said, because your father was born in the Year of the Loong, he belongs to the dragon, that is, the son of the dragon. Now we live in Shilong District, so we call it "the Year of the Loong Zi Long lives in Tommy Tam". Daughter out of the bottom line, called "Shengfeng Feng Nvfeng Feihe". What's so particular about asking children this? She said, my mother is a chicken, and a chicken is a phoenix. I am her daughter again, that is, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix girl. The college entrance examination is coming again next year. I hope I can go out, leave my parents' arms and start my own life. Didn't I fly out of the phoenix nest, so I called it "a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix girl flying in the phoenix nest". I heard it was reasonable and neat, so I cross-criticized it and called it "all the best"

Just get the content out, and write it down below. Her mother wrote the first part and I wrote the second part. My daughter has never written calligraphy in front of us. She is a little shy today, but she finally wrote a cross-examination. Her mother and I carefully studied the child's handwriting, which was a bit like the child's own dignity and beauty, and finally said, well, it's not bad. My daughter began to get a little nervous when we checked her handwriting. Seeing that our evaluation was good, she proudly said that at least there were no typos. As soon as our daughter's voice fell, all three of us couldn't help laughing. Finally, the daughter said, there must be other words. I'll do this. After that, I solemnly folded a square red paper and wrote a big "blessing" obliquely. Her mother and I looked at the word "fu" and said happily that the blessing of our family was brought by our children. How lucky we are. Say that finish, it is a burst of cheerful laughter.

The Spring Festival couplets were dried, and all three of us posted them on our doorstep. When my daughter posted the word "Fu", she deliberately turned the big word "Fu" upside down, saying that it was called Fu to our home. I told her mother that the child knows a lot! My daughter made a face at us when she heard our praise, and she was the first to walk into the "blessing".

After the Spring Festival couplets were posted, our family of three began a happy Spring Festival life.

I don't know why, during the Spring Festival, walking in the rural streets and looking at the beautifully printed Spring Festival couplets posted by every household, I always feel that there is a modern atmosphere, but the taste of the year is getting farther and farther. Then I remembered the scene of posting Spring Festival couplets in the countryside when I was a child. Everything was so warm and calm. ...

That was in the early 1970s, and farmers in central Shandong had not completely solved the problem of food and clothing. For farmers who have worked hard for a year, the Spring Festival is a great event in their lives. Because this not only indicates the improvement of life, but also reflects the joy of harvest, family reunion and happiness. Sticking Spring Festival couplets on the eve of the Spring Festival is a particularly beautiful scenery in rural areas, and it is also one of the highlights to welcome the Spring Festival.

As the saying goes: "Twenty-eight, applique", from this day on, putting up Spring Festival couplets on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month has become one of the important matters for farmers. Of course, people who died in those years don't post Spring Festival couplets, because it will take three years to eat "filial piety" before it will be posted here. At that time, the Spring Festival couplets were all handwritten, unlike the express printing products now, and the high-grade decoration content was unique. In my impression, my uncle is a famous calligrapher in our village. His neat and delicate brushwork is deeply loved by everyone. Because of this, almost all people in the village write Spring Festival couplets with their uncles on red paper.

I still clearly remember that every year on the 25th and 6th of the twelfth lunar month, some neighbors came to my uncle's house in twos and threes with red paper, some with brushes and ink, and asked him to write Spring Festival couplets, praying for a good weather and a happy family in the new year. At this time, my uncle who is over 70 years old will put on reading glasses and stroke his long beard. Surrounded by everyone, he will carefully cut the paper with a prepared pen, ink, paper, inkstone, knife and wooden ruler to prepare for the premise. I stand by and do some paper pressing and air drying services regularly. Under the onlookers of the villagers, my uncle was lucky enough to show his abdomen with a brush in his hand. After dipping in thick ink, he hung his wrist and wrote New Year's greetings on the cut red paper. Soon, a series of Mo Xiang Spring Festival couplets, such as "Tianzeng Life, Spring is full of blessings", "Good deeds go through the ages, and good books spread to Kyushu", "Business is booming all over the world, and financial resources are abundant in Sanjiang" and "Spring breeze is full, and 600 million Shenzhou is shining" ... At this time, my uncle took a break, just like making meritorious deeds.

Putting up Spring Festival couplets is our happiest thing. On the morning of New Year's Eve, I will get up early, like a cheerful bird, carrying the paste made by my mother, and I plan to stick it at every door one by one with my brothers and sisters ... Facing the courtyard wall at the gate, we will stick a big banner of "Lucky for Money" and stick "Safe Access" on the trolley. In a short time, the Spring Festival couplets were all posted. Looking at the colorful courtyards and gates, we talked and laughed, surrounded each other, and ran between the gates, commenting on whose Spring Festival couplets were beautiful. That happy mood still reverberates in front of us ... Yes, the Spring Festival in the countryside is in front of this red Spring Festival couplets, full of festive celebrations.

However, with the improvement of economy and the acceleration of people's life rhythm, fewer and fewer people write Spring Festival couplets now, and they are replaced by beautifully printed Spring Festival couplets hanging all over the street. In that fiery hawking, I always remembered the scene of my uncle writing Spring Festival couplets when I was a child and the fun of posting Spring Festival couplets. I will never forget that wonderful memory.