Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News January 25 is the lunar new year, that morning, the four city gates of the ancient city of Shouxian county hung out the Spring Festival at the same time, welcoming the New Year festival.
Located in the central part of Anhui Province and the south bank of the middle reaches of the Huai River, Shou County was announced by the State Council in 1986 as the second batch of national historical and cultural cities, and is the hometown of Chinese calligraphy, the "Thousand-year-old County" of Chinese geographical names and cultural heritage, and won the title of "National Advanced Cultural County".
ShouXian as a national historical and cultural city is also the hometown of Chinese calligraphy, since ancient calligraphy rich heritage, culture has a long history, known as "Huai poetry, Shou zi, Tong article" reputation, ancient Huang Tingjian, Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang, Liang Wei, Deng Shiru and other famous artists left calligraphy ink and inscription here, modern and modern sun Jia Nai, Xue Hong, Zhang Shuhou, Bai Wenwei, Situ Yue and other influential calligraphers at home and abroad. Today, Shouxian has more than 20 members of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, nearly 100 members of the Anhui Calligraphers Association, and more than 1,300 members of the municipal and county-level book associations.
The reporter saw that the Spring League of Tongshui Gate (South Gate) was: a dream to the south, Qi Wanli Pengfei, shaking open the spring curtain; a hundred years upwards, listening to the five more tigers roaring, resounding throughout the Chu heavens. Binyang Gate (East Gate) Spring League is: Tiger Ming Shengshi, Fu Man Shou Zhou, Geng continued a hundred years of dreams; phoenix dance chaoyang, door Ying Ruiqi, invited to colorful spring light. Dinghu Gate (West Gate) Spring League is: must be the spring wind to smear green, look at the colorful countryside, a lake of good dreams; sure enough, the prosperity of the red, happy millennium metropolis, ten thousand miles of grand plan. Jinghuai Gate (North Gate) Spring Union is: Ruiyong Jinghuai Gate, look at the mountains yao purple gold, water floating jasper; spring to urge the dreamer, let the cow's hooves not rest, the tiger step and open again.
Sticking to the Spring Festival is an important folk custom of the Chinese nation to celebrate the Spring Festival, full of expectations and blessings for the New Year. Ancient calligraphy and Spring Festival are inseparable. Chunlian and calligraphy can be called sister arts, and Chunlian uses calligraphy to express itself as a splendid and colorful artistic originality of the Chinese nation. Shouzhou Ancient City Wall is one of the well-preserved ancient city walls in China, which integrates the four traditional cultural elements of the Spring Festival, Yanglian, calligraphy and city wall, so that intangible cultural heritage items and tangible cultural heritage complement each other and reflect each other, which is an ancient and fashionable form of expression.
ShouXian has held the City Gate Spring Festival Competition and the "City Gate Hanging Spring League" activity for four consecutive years. This year's "Shouchun Hanging Spring League Ancient City Every Year Red" - ShouXian's Fourth City Gate Spring League Competition and "City Gate Hanging Spring League" activity has promoted the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture, with the "Spring League" formed by the integration of poetry, Yang Lian and calligraphy art as the carrier, taking the integration of culture and tourism as an opportunity to enrich the cultural connotation of traditional festivals, while displaying the style of the national historical and cultural city and the hometown of Chinese calligraphy, adding color to the protection of cultural heritage, and helping the Ming and Qing Dynasty city walls to apply for heritage.
According to reports, the Spring Festival League of the four gates of the ancient city of Shouxian was openly requisitioned from the whole country and written by calligraphers from Shouxian County. In the lunar new year, after the four spring joints are hung, people feel that the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar is getting closer and closer, and the happy and peaceful atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger.
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News reporter Zhang Anhao photo report
Edited by Zhang Dawei