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Different regions, different nationalities, different industries and even different villages have their own unique folk customs. Only pasting Spring Festival couplets is the most extensive, universal, civilized, culturally rich and ethnic folk custom. It is the unique spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation and unique in the world.

The couplets hanging on the pillars are called couplets; The pair posted on the door is called the door couplet; The couplet is called nave; Wedding couplets are called wedding couplets; Hanging couplets at funerals is called elegiac couplets; Birthday for the elderly is called Shoulian; Couplets to congratulate all kinds of happy events are called He Lian; Spring Festival couplets are called Spring Festival couplets. There are also festival couplets, industry couplets, painting couplets, study couplets, calligraphy couplets, studio couplets and so on. The most fashionable, common, concentrated, grand and full of national characteristics.

With the passage of history and the wide application of couplets culture, couplets have not only been used to paste, hang and decorate courtyards and buildings, but have been integrated into people's whole lives. When playing, communicating, dining table and even visiting scholars, they all regard couplets as a kind of cultural exchange, cultural entertainment, and even as a civilized dialogue, and some regard couplets as a tool to vent their feelings. In short, there are many famous stories about couplets in history.

Legend has it that a long-term worker scolded the landlord. A poor scholar has no choice but to work for the landlord. On a summer day when it didn't rain for a long time, the old landlord just let the long-term workers hoe the ground, saying that the drought was getting worse and worse, so the long-term workers and scholars had to hoe the ground in the hot sun. The old landlord sat on the ridge of the field to supervise the work, and the working scholar was sweating and thirsty, so he had to ask his master to give them some water to drink. The shopkeeper didn't say water supply, but slipped out a pair of couplets:

If it rains, you won't get into the water, and it will only turn into water when it rains. If it rains, it is very troublesome to turn into water. If it rains, you'd better go into the water.

Long scholar listened to the council, put down the hoe, answer the bottom line:

Rich people don't eat shit, and eating shit is very troublesome. Rich people might as well eat shit.

Hearing this, the old landlord and supervisor felt humiliated and left with water in a rage. A scholar, a long-term worker, went to a nearby mountain spring to drink water at will.

It is also said that in ancient times, a scholar went to Beijing to catch the exam, but was robbed by robbers on the way. He was so hungry that he had to beg. Arriving at the door of a rich man's house, the rich man saw his pitiful face and sent a pair of couplets, which read, "The palm tree was stripped and he became a bachelor."

Knowing that the rich man intended to satirize him, the scholar said to the bottom line, "Chili peppers open their mouths to see black hearts." It vividly reveals the black heart of the rich man.

It is said that after Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered the whole country to celebrate. At that time, someone wrote such a couplet:

Celebrate with the whole world, celebrate, celebrate.

The country is crazy when it is crazy.

"Party Celebration" and "Emotional Madness" are the sad sounds of local mourning. This couplet skillfully expresses the people's contempt for Yuan Shikai.

There is also a story about a bachelor posting Spring Festival couplets. People celebrate the Spring Festival with happy family members, men, women and children, put up Spring Festival couplets and set off firecrackers. They also like Chinese New Year, especially couplets, so they wrote a pair of couplets for themselves:

There is wine, meat and tofu.

No children, no daughters, no wives.

The horizontal approval is: one person for the New Year.

It shows that the custom of pasting couplets is very common, especially the Spring Festival couplets, which almost reaches the level of village rules and regulations. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, there will be a schedule every day, and 23 honeydew melons will be dipped (the day to send the kitchen god to heaven); Twenty-four, write big characters; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, prepare meat (kill pigs and sheep); Twenty-seven, kill the rooster; Twenty-eight, white hair; Twenty-nine, all; Thirty years old, rolling the crust.

This twenty-four, writing big characters, is to buy red paper to write pairs, because there are very few people in a village, especially those who can write pairs. You must prepare early and let your husband write them before he is thirty. In Jingxi, 30-year-old couples posted it in the morning, which is probably the case all over the country. Because New Year's Eve is the day of family reunion, and it is already the Spring Festival. It is more meaningful to post Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Spring Festival couplets are posted not only on the second door of the gate, but also on the pillars of the big ladle. They are posted on the head-on wall when going out and on the screen wall when entering the door. Big blessings and small blessings are also given to the nearest roller. There are fixed conjunctions in occasions closely related to life.

On the door of the pigsty is posted:

Six kinds of livestock are thriving ―― a prosperous rural life.

A bumper harvest of grain

Mules and horses flock together.

The saddle bridge of the animal saddle is fixed with:

Rixingqianli road

Walk 800 miles at night

On the windward side of the saddle, the words "bon voyage" are pasted, which has a cross section of couplets. These couplets are all couplets in fixed places, which are used by almost every family and are a folk custom with a big atmosphere.

Interesting talk about couplets, the past and the present. There are many good couplets in history; Famous joint families emerge one after another; Famous couplet stories have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Only individual vulgarity is outrageous, and it is impossible to be elegant.

Nowadays, in a brand-new era of advanced culture, couplet culture is still a gorgeous flower, which is invincible in the cultural and artistic circles.

In order to absorb the nutrition of couplet culture, I visited several mountain villages and streets in Chengmen Town, west of Beijing. It can be seen that there are indeed many couplets written by the family.

For example, the couplet on the door of a shoe store:

Have a great future and stand firm.

The work is complicated, and the steps should be distinguished.

A butcher's door couplet:

Let's pick and choose, and do not regret it.

Never lack two guarantees, honesty and justice.

Couplets on the door of a drugstore:

When night comes, it is sold at night.

Knock at midnight and open at midnight.

Couplets on the door of a barber shop:

Although it is a trivial skill.

But for top kung fu,

These industrial couplets express the business purpose and reflect the business characteristics, which have a certain positive effect on prospering the market, expanding commodity sales, improving service quality and decorating the shop facade. Even from the point of view of literature and art, these popular cultures are definitely vulgar and not vulgar.

In the journey of couplets, I did see the flaws or fly in the ointment of the jade in the couplet. I have a bad impression: the content is too monotonous, the cultural connotation is too superficial, and some of them are really irrelevant.

When it comes to monotonous content, most couplets are either "wealth" or "blessing", and the couplets with the word "wealth" are the highest, accounting for almost half, and they are either rolling in financial resources or prosperous. Perhaps this is a characteristic of the times, and people pay too much attention to money. But I advise you not to forget that money is earned by people. As long as people live healthy, diligent, especially upright and smart, I don't know if they have financial resources. For example, some senior officials are rich, but they are still greedy. They dare to accept bribes of millions or tens of millions of RMB and enrich themselves with the blood and sweat of the people. In the end, they ended in destruction. If he hangs such a couplet in his bedroom. And as a memorial, he and his family will be happy with him for a lifetime.

If you are tolerant, people will get more.

Take a penny, the official is not worth a penny.

This couplet fully illustrates the importance of being honest and clean for officials and benefiting the people, and warns officials to be honest and clean, and not to take ill-gotten gains at all.

The monotonous content has something to do with selling couplets. Most of the couplets I saw were printed. Every household in an area buys couplets from one or two vendors, and the content must be monotonous or even monotonous. The couplets you bought may not be suitable for your door, your taste or inspire you to make progress. I might as well write my own book. If a unit or a village pays attention to cultivating one or two experts in writing couplets, our nation's couplet culture will be a rising era.

I also witnessed such a couplet:

Welcome the Spring Festival with good luck.

All wishes will come true.

The horizontal recognition is that the future is bright.

This is not a couplet. Just three nice words put together casually. Completely irrelevant, neither connected nor matched. Is it sold wrong? Did you buy the wrong one? Or did you post it wrong? It's wrong anyway. It's so wrong that people wonder. Such a mistake is understandable if it comes from an illiterate family, but it only comes from the door of a department-level cadre. It's better not to stick such couplets, so as not to leave them as jokes for future generations.

There are also inverted couplets, and horizontal criticism does not attach couplets, not to mention horizontal criticism is a high generalization and summary of the upper and lower couplets.

In a word, mediocre works and even poor couplets can be seen everywhere, but these are the fly in the ointment of splendid culture.

No matter what, where, what occasion, or not, people feel different. For example, it will make people feel that bloom is warm in spring and full of vitality. It will make people feel full of joy and happiness when they are newly married; Used in new houses, people feel lucky and live and work in peace; With it, tourist attractions make people feel more charming and picturesque; Used in mourning, it makes people feel comforted in sadness and think with virtue. So its influence among the masses is greater than that of poetry. It can combine beautiful graphics, neat antithesis and sonorous phonology with calligraphy and sculpture, and bring out the best in each other forever. If literature and art are compared to a colorful and enormous garden and couplet culture, it is a particularly dazzling flower in this garden.