Narrator: Wang Jie, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Pasting the Spring Festival is also an important custom of our Chinese people. Although many of us live in the city today and have moved into buildings, whenever the Spring Festival comes, people will still go to the mall and supermarket to buy a picture of their favorite Spring League and paste it at their doorstep, if anyone has good calligraphy, they will also write a picture of their favorite Spring League.
Chunlian is also called "door pair", "spring paste", "couplet", "pair", etc., it depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, expresses good wishes, and is a unique literary expression in China. Therefore, the Spring Festival Can be said to be a major event during the Spring Festival, and the Spring Festival, like the Spring Festival, is also evolved from the God of Sticking Doors.
The history of chunlian
As early as the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago, the people would hang the peach stalk made of peach wood next to the New Year painting at the entrance of the house to ward off evil spirits, and this peach stem was the prototype of the Spring League. According to the "Huainan Zi" record, the peach charm is also a peach stem, which is carved from peach wood, and it is engraved with a spell that can drive away evil spirits and reduce it, which is changed every year.
At that time, the peach rune was not the Spring League in the impression of today's people, so the official birth of the name Spring League was traced back to the Ming Dynasty. After zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established the capital Jinling, he once ordered the house of Gongqing Shishu to write a pair of Spring Leagues during the Chinese New Year's Eve. Since then, the Spring League has been promoted throughout the country and has been inherited to this day.
Paste the exquisiteness of the Spring League
In our folk customs, the process of pasting the Spring Festival is also very exquisite, if the Spring League is not good, or even posted wrong, it will not only make jokes, but also affect the good luck of the year. In fact, there is a trick to distinguish between the upper and lower links, the key is in the last word, according to the rules of the Spring League, the last word of the upper link must be the end of the slang word, that is, the three voices and four sounds in Mandarin. Then the lower link is a flat sound, that is, one or two sounds of Mandarin. That is what people often call the color rise and fall.
When pasting the Spring League, the upper link should be pasted on the right and the lower link on the left. Then left and right, then, are distinguished by facing the gate or armpost, the reason why it is pasted is because the straight line writing is from right to left, so the nian chun lian is also read from right to left.
Earlier we talked about "twenty-four sweeping houses", and there is a folk proverb that says: Twenty-four, write big characters, which means that after the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, you can write the Spring League, but when to paste the Spring League? The best time to paste the new Spring League is from the afternoon to the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, this time order should be from the outside to the inside, first paste the head of the blessing, and then paste the door blessing, and finally can be pasted to the blessing, which means that the blessings of the year, all flow from the outside to the inside, tearing the old Spring League, indicating the breaking of bad luck, pasting the new Spring League, there is the meaning of removing the old and welcoming the new.
Every time when the Spring League is pasted, the elders begin to boil the paste, move the ladder, the children hold the Spring League next to the adults, rush in front, tear off the old Spring League to wait for the adults to wipe the paste evenly, after the Spring League in the hands of the ground, such a new and red Spring League is posted on the doors and windows, the new Year's breath is also suddenly strong, implying that the new year is red and hot, Vientiane is renewed, and the Spring League not only adds to the festive atmosphere of the festival, but also expresses people's ardent expectations for a good wish and happy life. Moreover, from the Spring Festival, which is rich in different styles and contents, we can feel the profundity of traditional Chinese culture, as well as the unique family training and family style of each household, which is an indispensable custom for us to Chinese the New Year.
Producer: Li Fangzhou Zhang Yuexin