Idle walking song to see the Spring League, secretly revealing Chan Juan's side.
Xiao Hu had spied on the newspaper and also wrote the Year of Taiping with others.
--Ming Wang Yanhong, "Bamboo Branch Words"
Spring League, is the invitation of spring, is the unique ancient cultural symbol of the Spring Festival. Walking through the streets and alleys to pray for the New Year, admiring the red and fragrant red and fragrant Spring Festival on the door of the house, the festival that is still cold is still strong, and it will be warm and melting, and it will be red and red.
"Two sisters, generally long; dressed together, each dressed in makeup. The face is full of red light, and the annual report is auspicious. The riddle of this riddle is "Spring League". Chunlian is also known as "pair", because it is posted during the Spring Festival, so it is called Chunlian. The custom of sticking to chunlian originated in the Five Dynasties period. It is said that five generations later, the Shu monarch Meng Chang Chinese New Year's Eve in 964 AD, and asked a scholar named Xin Yinxun to write two sentences on the peach wood board: "New Year Na Yu Qing, Jia Jie Changchun"; it is said that this is the earliest Spring League on the mainland. Pasting spring leagues has a history of thousands of years and can be described as having a long history.
The Qing Dynasty "Yanjing Chronicle" records: "The Spring League, that is, Tao Fu Ye." In Wang Anshi's poem, there is a sentence that reads, "Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms." However, some people say that it was found in the Dunhuang Mogao Caves Tibetan Scripture Caves tang Dynasty Liu Qiuzi wrote "Three Yangs First Cloth, Four Orders Initial Opening"; it should be the earliest Spring League. Meng Chang's "New Year Na Yu Qing, Jia Jie Changchun" can only be relegated to second place.
In the Ming Dynasty Chen Yunzhan's "Miscellaneous Tales of The Cloud Building", it is written: "The establishment of the Spring League began with the Ming Taizu. The imperial capital Jinling, Chinese New Year's Eve qian, suddenly passed on the order: gongqing Shishu's door must be added to the spring union when a pair of emperor micro-line appeared. The "Tao Fu" of the Ming Dynasty was renamed "Chun Lian". Because the couplets of the Ming and Qing dynasties were favored and loved by the emperor, the custom of posting spring leagues in the New Year was popularized.
Plain hand-cut red paper, concentrate on writing wonderful links.
Mo Xiangsheng Burrow, fun into the New Year.
——Contemporary female poet Gu Minyan, "Writing the Spring League"
During the Spring Festival, thousands of households post eye-catching red Spring Festival, which not only adds a festive atmosphere to the festival, but also has a cultural charm, which is full of spring. When I was a child, it was generally handwritten Spring League, with ink like a dragon, different styles, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and a beautiful meaning.
The peach at the bottom of the year is changed, and the family is a photo.
Hou suspected that he had sealed the household, and Rongbi was on the Qilin Dynasty.
A total of thousands of gold faces, the same generation.
The gourd is painted in the same way, and only the wind and dust are cherished.
--Qing Yue Zhongqi, "Heyu QianshanRen Yongmen Shen Yun"
I can't remember from what year onwards, the family is no longer writing the Spring Festival, but buying the Spring Festival. Although the door is still red, it always feels less like the ink aroma that has been passed down from generation to generation to write the Spring League.
Chu Tian is far away. Signed heavily.
It should be said that children are obsessed, have not seen for a long time, and are covered in clothes.
Also ink. Write your own Spring League post.
And the book is hung in small characters, and the road is ning, and I would like to thank the guests.
--Ming Wang Yanhong, "Frost Sky Dawn Corner"
Most of the Spring Festivals in our village are written by the third grandfather. The third grandfather lived in the era of war and chaos, the family was poor, and he did not go to school for a day. Fortunately, he was a neighbor of a teaching gentleman when he was a child, and often helped the old man carry water and collect firewood, and the old man liked him to be realistic and taught him to read in his winter leisure. He also finished reading Mr. Teaching's collection. Although he never went to school, he was a reader.
During the Spring Festival, the old man wrote the couplet, and the third grandfather gave the old man a pair. He was clever and studious, and he learned the old man's simple and atmospheric yan characters and strong, flowing and fluent calligraphy, and he could also export them into a union. It is said that once he copied a pair of mr. Xi Lian," "Both flights are Guan Ju birds, and Ti often opens and even straightens branches"; even Mr. Li did not distinguish that he had written it himself.
The old man also passed on the abacus technique that was as fast as water to the third grandfather, so the third grandfather later worked as an accountant in the production team for many years. Every spring festival, the third grandfather wrote pairs to the people in the village, and no matter how busy and tired, he would never prevaricate. He wrote the couplet in his village, and people from other villages asked relatives and friends to ask him to write it. Writing the Spring League is the busiest time of the year for the three grandfathers.
The north wind blows snow four more early, Jiarui Heavenly Sect and the year is removed.
Half a lamp of Tu Su Yu was not lifted, and the small grass in front of the lamp wrote a peach symbol.
- Song Lu you, "Snow At Night"
The "studio" of the third grandfather is the place where the production team keeps work points, generally starting from the sixteenth day of the waxing moon, and being busy until the Chinese New Year's Eve paste couplets.
The third grandfather wrote the couplet for a few points that impressed me the most: he cut the red paper never used a knife, but used a thin bamboo slice he had cut himself, and he told me that the knife was too sharp and easy to cut; before writing the couplet, the ink should be mixed with the bile of the pig, so that the words written in this way were black and translucent, and the families who killed the pigs in the village would send the pig's bitter bile.
The third grandfather wrote the couplet, and I grinded and polished the couplet for the third grandfather. I first warmed the brick table, then held the ink block, added some warm water and slowly grinded it in one direction, evenly, and in one direction. Ready to stop, the third master spread his legs, arched his waist, rolled up his sleeves, exposed his strong forearms, the tip of the pen was gently stirred, the full pen ink fell onto the red paper, the hanging wrist walked the pen, the arm belt wrist, the wrist belt finger, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, sometimes slow, sometimes urgent, running vertically and horizontally on the paper. Writing to the excitement, the pen goes to the dragon and snake, and the beginning and end of the turn. Unconsciously, the ink was dripping, and it was really full of paper smoke. Half a day later, the ground is full of red spring leagues, like a red carpet, pleasing to the eye.
Xiao Shu's white hair was not tossed, and the old age of the furnace was actually abandoned.
Cut candles to dry the night wine, pour out your bags to buy spring money.
Listen to the burning firecrackers in the child's heart, and see the peach charm old Xing bias.
Drum horn plum blossoms add one, five more laughter to worship the New Year.
--Qing Kong Shangren, "New Year's Day"
The third grandfather said that there is an elegant name for writing the Spring League called "Waving Spring". A "waving" word, speaking of a strong New Year's flavor. The content of the Spring League written by the third grandfather is also full of literary flair and full of interest.
For example, "spring is planted with jasper in the field, and autumn harvest is full of gold"; "Spring into spring is not old, and the blessings of the blessed land are boundless"; "The green willow primrose spring is full of auspicious days and rich years, and the snow is happy and auspicious in the season and the good year". "Two or three firecrackers, the world is easy to age; plum blossoms are four or five o'clock, the world is spring."
Of course, the third grandfather will also "specially customize" the Spring Festival content for familiar relatives and friends. The third grandfather's companion was a ranger in the village, and the spring couplet written to his family was "Ruiqi is full of Shenzhou, the green mountains are not old; the spring breeze blows on the earth, and the green water flows forever"; the couplet of the old tailor's family in the village is "A cut is happy into a thousand wishes, and the inch is skillful to measure the hearts of thousands of people"; to the nephew who is a private teacher, he wrote "Three points of thin field once the spring wind and rain, the house has nothing else Andhanzoan Agricultural Tools and Half-Collection Book"; his neighbor marries his son-in-law in the New Year, and the couplet is "The son-in-law is the best of both worlds, and the daughter-in-law is the daughter-in-law and wins both in one fell swoop.".
After reading these spring leagues with different realms and tastes, the fathers and elders in the village all praised them. One year was the Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar, and the Third Grandfather collected Mao Zedong's poems as a joint: "A unique hero drives the tiger and the leopard, and dares to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new heaven." A cadre in the county took the troupe to the village to perform, and when he saw this association, he was full of praise. In order to encourage me to study seriously, the third grandfather wrote me a couplet: "If you don't leave it, it will be bitter, and each of them will eventually become famous"; unfortunately, it was lost later.
December to business inclusions. Boundless flowers and trees to wait for the third day of spring.
In the New Year, there are elephant peach charms, and the heavens and the earth are amorous and willow-colored.
——Qing Gu Taiqing, "Willow Branch Words"
Chunlian is the carrier of Chinese culture and the blood that flows through our national soul and foundation. It can really be said: "Two sentences to inclusive heaven and earth, one to bear the ancient and modern." Look for it in the Spring League: there is the ancient Chinese culture of the wind and thunder at the bottom of the pen, the Tang poems and Song poems on the paper, and the lingering thick nostalgia...
-Author-
Zhu Shaohua, a native of Junan County, is a senior middle school teacher. Loves to write. Teaching papers, prose essays, poems, paper cuttings and other works have been published in many newspapers and online platforms. He has won many awards in the Essay contest and online literature competition.