Chinese New Year's Eve, I returned to my hometown of Hanchuan Countryside for the New Year, and every household posted the Spring Festival, indicating that the Year had come.
According to research, chunlian originated from the peach symbol of the Warring States period, that is, the peach wood board hanging on both sides of the gate, and the peach wood board is engraved with the god of descending ghosts, which later evolved into a joint language. The Song Dynasty Wang Anshi's poem "Thousands of households are on the day, always exchanging new peaches for old charms" is a description of this grand situation. In the Song Dynasty, the peach symbol was changed from a peach wood board to a paper, which was called sticking spring paper or spring joint. The ming and qing dynasties continued to this day.
When I was a child, every year I saw my father, who had been busy for a year, ask someone to write a good spring league in the market town, and post the spring league on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve.
The Spring League is neat and neat, and the text is concise and exquisite. There are uplinks, downlinks, banners. In the past, the Spring League was written with a brush, and most of them had their own characteristics. The current Chunlian University is a printed drama, often with the same content.
In the evening, I toured along the streets of Jiangling and visited the spring couplets posted one by one, and three different colors of spring leagues came into my eyes.
Most of the homes and stores are posted in red, some words are ink colored, and some are gold. These Spring Leagues express people's blessings and visions for a better life, and their expectations for peace and happiness in the New Year.
Occasionally, I saw several gates lined with yellow and green spring links, and there were old people in the family who pasted yellow in the first year of death and green in the second year. This kind of Spring League is filial piety and Ding Worry, expressing the family's thoughts and praise for the deceased.
Whether it is a handwritten or a printed Spring League, it is a calligraphy and a calligraphy style. Chunlian has a strong ideological and artistic nature, full of the atmosphere of the times, and is also a form of mainland literature.
Whenever I return to my hometown and see the Spring Festival posted by every household, I deeply feel the strong taste of the New Year and the blessings and expectations of the villagers for a better life.
2022.1.31.Chinese New Year's Eve in Hanchuan
One dot number Yan Chunfang