Yang Daixin and his granddaughter Zhu Shiyi wrote free blessings to the citizens in the Alai Study two days ago
Cover news reporter Yang Fan
On January 31, coinciding with the Chinese New Year's Eve of the New Year, the home of the famous calligrapher Yang Daixin reached the most lively time of the year. A few days ago, he was busy writing Spring Festival blessings for his relatives, friends and Chengdu citizens, and finally he could have a good rest and share the joy of reunion with his family. In an interview with the cover news reporter, Yang Daixin talked about the earth-shaking changes in the current Spring Festival compared with childhood memories, "The disappearance of some old Spring Festival folk customs is actually not a regret, but just shows that the times are progressing." ”
Yang Daixin said: "The memory of the Spring Festival when I was a child is very far away from now, after all, I am now at the age of ancient rarity. What I remember very clearly is that Chengdu Spring Festival has a unique old folk custom, that is, visiting the temple fair of Wuhou Ancestral Hall and the people's day trip of Du Fu Caotang. ”
For the 73-year-old Yang Daixin, the most profound memory of his childhood is that the Spring Festival came to "beat the tooth festival". "You have to eat well! There is also the need to wear new clothes, whether it is foreign cloth or coarse cloth, and the average family that can get by has to buy a new set of clothes for the doll. Now the New Year dolls are not 'cold' to new clothes, because they wear new clothes all year round and look bright at any time, which shows that our current material life is much better than before. ”
"At that time, the children were most looking forward to the New Year's firecrackers and fireworks. I remember very clearly that every year when Chinese New Year's Eve, every family's children ran out to set off firecrackers, and on the morning of the First Day of the New Year, they saw that the streets were full of red shredded paper, which was the 'wreckage' of firecrackers. Another deep impression that the Spring Festival also made to me was that I had to press the old age money, and the pressure money given by the elders was generally not accepted by my parents, so it all went into our pockets. Yang Daixin said.
Yang Daixin believes that the Spring Festival has a deep spiritual connotation for Chinese, which represents the beginning of the year. "According to our traditional saying: spring, summer, autumn, harvest and winter, our country is an agricultural country, so it is very important to pay attention to the lunar calendar, and the spring next to the Spring Festival is a big festival, as the saying goes, 'The plan of the year lies in the spring.'" Therefore, before the Spring Festival comes, we are very yearning, and after coming, we must live happily, which is a tradition since ancient times. ”
Yang Daixin also believes that there are certain historical laws for the generation, inheritance and continuation of folk customs and customs. Human society is moving forward rather than being immutable, so it is understandable that some folklore has gradually disappeared. "For example, when we eat Tuan New Year's meal and keep the New Year, it is basically the same as the ancients, and the old Spring Festival folk customs such as the matsuri stove are now invisible in many places."
Yang Daixin gave an example to the cover reporter, "There is also a disappeared Spring Festival folk custom that people hold worship ceremonies, in the past, the scale of ancestor worship in the ancestral hall during the Spring Festival was very large, but now only place names such as Zhang Family Ancestral Hall and Li Family Ancestral Hall are left. ”
【Oral Narrator Profile】
Yang Daixin was born in Chengdu in 1949. Learn calligraphy from Mr. Liu Dongfu, learn calligraphy from Mr. Sun Zhichang, and enter into calligraphy theory from Mr. Lü Hongnian, Xu Wuwen, and Mr. Huang Zhixiao. The study book starts from the seal and the subordinate, and the inscription and the post are combined. He is currently a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Education Committee of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a director of the Sichuan Calligraphers Association, the director of the Education Committee of the Sichuan Calligraphers Association, the deputy director of the Theory Committee of the Sichuan Calligraphers Association, the vice president of the Sichuan Calligraphy Society, and the vice president of the Sichuan Cursive Research Association.