January 13, 2022 Foshan News A14 edition
Produced by Planner/Coordinator Xie Hong
Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Jing Jinjin
In the old town of Foshan Chancheng, there is a Qilou Old Street Kuaizi Road. In the minds of Foshan people, Kuaizi Road has another name, "Huachun Street". Every Spring Festival, Foshan's folk calligraphy masters will gather here, set up stalls along the streets, splash ink, and use the brushwork of the clouds and flowing water to write auspicious words on festive red paper to send people good wishes for the New Year.
Festive blessings
Visible folklore, unforgettable nostalgia. Whether it is a native of Foshan, a new citizen, or a foreign tourist, strolling through Huachun Street may be able to recall the strong and warm new year flavor in the memory.
Local view of Wachun Street
Master Wa Chun also has loyal "fans"
"Smooth sailing for the whole family, peace and happiness in the four seasons" "A good year with the arrival of spring, the four seasons of wealth come smoothly" "Welcome the spring to welcome the rich, receive wealth and receive peace"... Just after Lapa Ba, Huachun Street was already bustling. Under the mottled arcades on both sides of the road, there is a joyous atmosphere, one after another swinging spring stalls are swinging one after another, and on the walls and pillars, there are red and red spring leagues everywhere.
Wa chun is also known as chun lian, door lian, fu ti, cantonese area called wa chun. The Lingnan region is rich in folk activities, and foshan's characteristic ancient folk customs are even more colorful. Compared with local folk activities with strong local characteristics, such as Xingtongji, Northern Emperor's Birthday, and Autumn Color Parade, although writing "Waving Spring" is not a unique Annual custom in Foshan, Foshan's "Waving Spring Street" is definitely a unique scenery.
"At present, the masters who write about waving spring are not the most, and there are not too many people who come to buy spring waving, and when the 278th of the Waxing Moon, the people who buy spring will line up." There is a master of waving spring said.
Master Wa chun writes wading chun
Among the many stalls on Wachun Street, there is a shop called "Juezhai" that is quite conspicuous. The owner of the shop is Xiao Haozhi, who is in his 40s, in addition to writing about the New Year's Spring, he usually helps the neighbors to write the door links and blessing posts needed for marriage, housewarming, opening, etc., at the same time, he is also a lecturer at foshan University for the Elderly Cadres (Foshan University for the Elderly). Xiao Haozhi told reporters that he began to learn brush calligraphy from the age of 8, first with a neighbor. "When I was in junior high school, I came out to set up a stall to write about the spring, and I have insisted on it for more than 30 years, writing every year without interruption."
Discuss the content of the spring
Many masters of the spring have loyal "fans". Among Xiao Haozhi's customers, many of them are old acquaintances who have known him for several years or even more than ten years, and there is an aunt who lives far away from Wachun Street, and every year before the New Year, she has to take a taxi to find him to write about Wachun. "The cost of each taxi far exceeds the money to buy a spring."
Ms. He, a citizen who is an old customer of Master Huaichun District Jiewen, told reporters: "I have been looking for Master Huaichun for several years, adding his WeChat, and every year I will ask him in advance to set up a stall in that location." ”
"Wachun Street" has a long history and has been relocated several times
Exploring the history, you will find that the "Wachun Street" formed by the customs of the year was not originally on Kuaizi Road.
According to relevant information, Huachun Street originated in Fulu Road about 100 years ago. Festive shops such as spring festivals, paper-cuts, and festive stickers have become markets, and by the 1990s they were quite large. With the renewal and development of the city, Fulu Road, as the center of Chancheng, began to build modern commercial houses and commercial buildings, and Huachun Street began to migrate for the first time to the area of Yong'an Road. After that, Yong'an Road made room for the construction of Oriental Plaza, and Huachun Street once again "packed her bags" and moved to Gongyi Road. Later, "Wachun Street" moved to Kuaizi Road.
In fact, many of today's Wachun masters have been relocated several times with Wachun Street.
Among the masters of the spring, there are elderly people over seventy and eighty years old, and there are also middle-aged and elderly people from their 40s to more than 60 years old. It is said that on the day closer to the Spring Festival, after the school holiday, there will be some teenagers who will follow the elders out to "write and play".
"Some people start to write with their elders when they are teenagers, writing that the elders are old, they open their own stalls independently, and then they grow older; some customers are old and inconvenient to move, so they will let their children come to buy spring." More than twenty years ago, Ou Jiewen, who began writing about the spring from Gongyi Road, said.
Kuaizi Road, where Huachun Street is located, is also a road with a "story", originally named "Chopstick Road". Chopsticks Road is connected to Shengping Road in the north and Lianhua Road in the south, with a length of nearly 400 meters. According to the Foshan Chancheng Geography Series "Chancheng Old Land", more than a hundred years ago, this area was a place where the handicraft production of iron pots, copperware, chopsticks and other handicrafts in Foshan Town was concentrated. Originally composed of Chopstick Street, Chopsticks New Street, Wanyuan Li, Diguan Li, etc., the road was built in 1931 and named after the longest Chopsticks New Street. Since the 1960s, newlywed men and women in Foshan have been going to the chopstick road to pray for blessings in front of the ancestral temple on the wedding day, in order to have a quick desire to have children, so the neighbors also called "Chopstick Road" "Kuaizi Road".
Many young people come to buy spring
Han mo is fragrant, and the pen is a dragon and snake. The Masters of The Spring Festival were all skilled, and in addition to writing in different fonts such as calligraphy, calligraphy, and seal writing, they also developed a combination font. For example, the combination of four-character auspicious words such as "Golden Wanliang", "Kong Meng's Eager to Learn", "Zhao Cai Jin Bao", and "Fishing for The Gentleman", are more common on The Street of Wachun.
Each of the masters of the Spring Festival has a copy of the "Spring League Collection", which is full of auspicious couplets for customers to read and choose. Of course, some customers will also draw up their own Spring League copywriting.
Teacher Wu, 61 years old this year, has been writing about the spring for more than 5 years. According to his observation, in recent years, more and more people have come to buy handwritten spring, and people are paying more and more attention to traditional Chinese culture, including many young people. "From the source of customers, in addition to the locals of Foshan, there are many Guangzhou people, as well as people from other places in the Pearl River Delta. Some people originally went to the neighborhood to play, and when they met Wachun Street by chance, they felt very novel, and they would also buy a few paintings to take away. ”
A girl wearing a cheongsam went to Huachun Street to take a picture
During the interview, the reporter met many young people who went to Huachun Street to play. Citizen Miss Wei and her friends came here to take pictures, and in order to blend into the festive atmosphere of Wachun Street, they also specially wore cheongsam.
"I brought a friend from Chaozhou to visit Wachun Street before, and my friend was impressed by it. Approaching the New Year, my friend asked me to help buy a few paintings to send to the spring. Although there are many printed spring joints on the market now, we think that handwriting is more meaningful. Miss Chen, a local girl in Foshan, while purchasing a wave of spring, instructed the master to be sure to mark the upper and lower links clearly.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Wei Qin