Widow uplink: years are sad, year after year, every year is sad, a show is out of the lower league, and the two are married
Every Lunar New Year, people will always carry out a variety of activities to welcome the New Year, the first thing to do is to post a festive Spring Festival at the door of the home, the content of the Spring Festival is mostly to praise the peace and prosperity, praying to god to bless the family in the coming year in good health and all the best.
The custom of attaching the Spring Festival to the Spring Festival has a long history in the mainland, and even in ancient times, this custom was spread overseas, and the neighboring countries of ancient China have followed suit. Among them, there are many poets who praise the beauty of the Spring Festival family reunion, and there are also many small stories about the Spring Festival, so how much do you know about the little knowledge about the Spring Festival?
The earliest history of the Spring League can probably be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty, when there was no paper, so people would choose to carve some exorcism patterns handed down from ancient times on the mahogany, and then put two pieces of mahogany on the left and right sides of the gate, its main role is to drive away evil spirits.
Because of this, chunlian in ancient times the longest used name is called peach symbol, with the continuous development of society, before the emergence of paper, mahogany is the most important carrier of peach symbol, the pattern on the above after the change of dynasties, the content is more and more image and rich. In addition to the Spring Festival, the origin of things like door gods and New Year paintings can also be traced back to this period.
The Spring League has undergone substantial changes, and it will not be until the Three Kingdoms period. Because Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty invented the papermaking technique that was very advanced in the world at that time, people abandoned the heavy mahogany and used paper to make peach charms. After the Han Dynasty, the literature of the mainland also developed greatly, and the content of the peach symbol gradually evolved from pictures to words.
The representative of Han Dynasty literature is Han Fu, Han Fu pays attention to the majestic atmosphere, and the battle is neat, so the Spring League at that time also inherited the characteristics of Han Fu, paying attention to the upper and lower sentences to be neat and tidy, and the language is concise and beautiful. In order to distinguish it from the picture version of the peach symbol, the text version of the peach symbol has a new name - Yang Lian.
From the very beginning, The Yanglian has pinned people's wishes for a better life, most of the working people in ancient times were simple and kind, and they believed very much that God could determine the happiness of their lives, so every New Year's Day, whether it was a poor family or a prince or a nobleman, they would pray to God in the way of sticking to the link, and this tradition has been passed down to this day.
This story takes place during the Ming Dynasty, living in a small village in the southern region of a happy family of three, husband and wife are very loving, and life is happy and harmonious. Suddenly, one day, the husband was arrested and sent to the army, the quiet life was broken, and the wife waited for her husband at home for decades without a word.
As a well-informed wife and mother, the wife undertakes heavy housework every day and looks forward to the early return of her husband. But the war was too merciless, and after a few years her husband did not return, but the news of his death on the battlefield came back, and the wife unfortunately became a widow, and her life was lonely.
Widows in ancient times were always discriminated against and could not find a way to make a living, widows had to spend frugally, take care of the young children of the family, and when the New Year came, the other families gathered together, and the widow was left with only a room on the four walls of the family. Filled with grief and indignation, she couldn't help but write a couplet: "Years are sad, years are sad, years are passed." ”
Looking at this couplet, the people around her are very sympathetic to the widow's suffering, saying that her couplet is written appropriately and touchingly, and for a while no one can answer the next sentence, after all, without a real hard life, it is impossible to empathize with the widow's encounter. Just at this time, a show from the same village also saw this couplet, and even had a feeling and wrote a wonderful downlink.
In order to obtain a meritorious name, although this Xiucai scattered his family wealth, he did not get an official and a half-job, and now he is poor, and his hope of stepping into his career is gradually slimming. Xiu, who has no family background, remembers the experience of running around and seeing the sinister experience of the examination hall over the years, and also groans out a couplet of "nothing is done, nothing is done, everything is done".
Later, the widow heard about this lower link and thought that Xiucai was also a person with the same disease as her, so the two naturally came together under the introduction of the matchmaker. Although the days are still poor, but there is also a dependence between each other, the hard days of biting the teeth will persist, but also did not live up to the pair of spring leagues that have been passed down through the ages.
Elegant and popular, suitable for all ages, what is the reason for the popularity of the couplet
One of the most excellent traditional cultures in the mainland, the connection between the Spring League and the couplet is inseparable, in essence, the Spring League is also a kind of couplet, but the Spring League specifically refers to the New Year's League pasted on both sides of the door. The reason why Chunlian can collect the essence of traditional literature is largely due to the daily couplet training of ancient literati.
In ancient times, children would learn the writing of couplets from an early age, such as the correspondence between heaven and earth, wind and rain, continent and long sky, etc. These knowledge is almost a must for literati and inkers. After the Han Dynasty, the development form of mainland literature and the characteristics of couplets are also highly consistent, coupled with the strong promotion of many great literary heroes in the Tang and Song dynasties, the play of couplets has gradually spread from the aristocratic class to the folk.
When people drink and party, enjoy the flowers and the moon, they like to enhance their feelings with each other by answering each other's couplets, and even like the small story above, they have contributed to a pair of heavenly friendships. In the Ming Dynasty, after thousands of years of development, couplets have achieved universal appreciation and suitable for all ages, even illiterate children can casually recite many couplets that have been passed down through the ages.
In ancient times, when there were no various forms of entertainment, couplets largely served as a very elegant way of entertainment, which not only expressed people's inner thoughts and true emotions well, but also made like-minded friends through connections, and the interpretation of couplets also greatly promoted the development of couplet literature.
Until now, the custom of posting the Spring Festival every year is still in full swing, but people have gradually neglected the way to play the couplet, even in the language textbook, they do not pay attention to the study of the knowledge related to the couplet, resulting in many people have lost the ability to answer the couplet, which is a very regrettable thing.
