[My father and mother] Father's Spring League

■ Miao Juxian

Regarding the New Year's Festival, in addition to the preparation of eating and drinking, my father attached the most importance to the Spring League and the almanac. Father is a very ritualistic person, he opened the beautiful vision of the new year in the Spring League, and then held the small "almanac" in his hand, in the almanac pointed out in the spring ploughing summer, autumn harvest and winter hiding, carefully live the day in an orderly and porcelain.

Every year before the Spring Festival, when my father went to town to do New Year goods, he had to buy a small almanac. The almanac is only the size of a palm, thin, and the red cover is printed with a year and zodiac figure. Returning with the almanac were two large pieces of red paper, which were used to write the Spring League, and the content of the Spring League was found by my father from the Almanac. The door of the hall house is often posted with the words "Heshun One Gate has a hundred blessings, and the word peace is worth thousands of gold", and the small door that appears most frequently in the kitchen is "Spring Breeze Welcomes the New Year, Ruixue Mega Year".

Implementing the Spring League is a top priority for my father. My father couldn't write about the Spring League, he only had the first grade of primary school culture, and he didn't have much literacy. When I was a child, every year the Spring Festival League at home was written by the uncle who taught in the village. At that time, there were only one or two cultural people in the village who could write the Spring Festival, and the villagers who went to the uncle's house to ask for the Spring Festival were lined up. My father always told me to be clever, Chinese New Year's Eve go early on this day, be a book boy for my uncle, wait for pen and ink, cut paper, fold paper, pull paper, dry couplets, etc. At that time, I muttered, ten thousand reluctant. Isn't it just two or three pairs of Spring Leagues and a few lucky words, and the Big Bolong Flying Phoenix Dance can be done in less than two minutes. Father said, our family can not always ask the uncle to write a lifetime of Spring League, you go to school, first learn a little here in the Uncle, in two years you can not write your own Spring League.

When I was in the fourth grade of elementary school, my father prepared pen and ink at home, opened my pen, polished ink, cut paper, and became my book boy. And I only took a few big character writing classes in the village primary school, carrying a pen dipped in ink, but I did not dare to drop the paper. Father gave a strong encouragement: bold writing, we write ourselves, how to write is joyful. In my father's smiling face full of expectation, I "drew" two pairs of Spring Leagues, and the joy of my father raising his eyebrows and pursing his mouth at that time sprinkled golden light on my crooked big characters. In the first month, my father proudly said: The Spring League was written by my daughter.

In addition to the Spring Festival, there are many places to post "banners" in the home, stoves, valley cabinets, rice barrels, kitchen cabinets, wooden door bolts... Seven barrels and eight cabinets should be pasted, and household agricultural tools should also be pasted. In short, during the Spring Festival, my father had to let this week's Chinese red with auspicious words occupy the corners and corners of the house. For this reason, the mother will count down the father's "Flower Head Sutra" more. Such a small banner father dares to write, write wrong, less waste, after all, it is only some scraps of writing the Spring League. Every year, I write the Spring Festival, my father writes small banners, I write perfunctorily, and my father writes carefully. My words are still like a picture, while my father's small banners are becoming more and more decent, and the content is becoming more and more flavorful and blessed. He would give a pair of sketches to the "East Chef Si Ming Stove Jun" at the stove head: "The heavens present good deeds, and the netherworld will be safe", with a single word in the middle of which is a horizontal batch of "blessings"; write two lines for the wooden door bolt: "Open the door to see the joy, seal the door and be auspicious"; write a "feng", "diligent" and "wang" for the windmills, hoes, and baskets in the family that are compatible with him; write "an" and "happy" for the tanks, altars, and cans that help us live our lives, and bless them with an auspicious and festive year.

The most distinctive number in the small banner is "Jiang Taigong has no taboos here". Every year, my father would write a solemn note and paste it on the wall of the hall house, bright red paper, the prestige of Jiang Taigong, inexplicably making people feel a sense of awe. When he was a child, the story that my father told us the most was the story of Jiang Taigong's eighty-one-year-old fishing on the shore of Weishui and meeting King Wen of Zhou. In his father's eyes, Jiang Ziya, who was old enough to meet King Wen, was a god-like figure. This sentence is called "peace charm". Whenever Chinese New Year's Eve, my sister and I accidentally said unlucky words, or accidentally broke the dishes, and my father blurted out a sentence "Jiang Taigong has no taboos here", and the unlucky words went away with the wind.

Year after year, the years have gone far, and my father has gone far away in the autumn of Gengzi. The New Year has arrived, looking up at the Spring Festival banner written by my father when he was alive, the bright red has faded behind the trivial time, and the faint red halo is a happy and beautiful day for the family.

Thoughts rushed...

(Author Affilications:Quzhou Municipal Government Procurement Center, Zhejiang Province)

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