Celebrating the Spring Festival and pasting the Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese culture. In China's neighboring neighbors South Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, due to the influence of Chinese culture, they also celebrate the Spring Festival and paste the Spring Festival. However, these three countries are foreign countries after all, and in the process of inheriting and developing Chinese culture, they will inevitably have their own national styles.
The Date of spring festival in South Korea is the same as in China, but the Spring Festival is on the day of Lichun; Vietnamese and Chinese are on the same day to celebrate the Spring Festival, and they also paste the Spring Festival, but except for a small number of elderly people who can write Chinese characters, most of them are Spelled in French.
Korea
South Korea's Spring League is very special, not only written on white paper, but also the same only eight words, that is, the upper link is "Li Chun Daji" and the lower link is "Jianyang Duoqing". Interestingly, these two white notes are pasted on the door, how to look like the law enforcement department to seal the warehouse of a certain illegal enterprise, to put it ugly, and even make people think of the Chinese to do white things.
South Korea also has a name called the white-clothed nation, so why do Koreans advocate white and prefer white so much? The claims are still relatively complex, and there are many origins, so we will not explore them.
Unlike the domestic Spring Festival, which began with the people, in Korea, this custom spread from top to bottom, and was first popular among the royal family and the minister of culture and military affairs who knew Han Chinese, and its representative was the Yanxiang poem celebrating the New Year.
During the Joseon Dynasty, officials in Hanyang were required to present a five-sentence poem to the king before lichun, and choose one of the best sentences to paste on the pillars of the palace. After that, the two classes of aristocratic mansions also began to post spring posts, and finally spread to the people. Until the spread of Korean today, Chun Ti is still written in Chinese characters.
South Vietnam
Vietnam should be the country with the highest degree of de-Chinese characterization. At the end of the 19th century, colonists from France imposed spelling in the Latin alphabet in Vietnam, and according to the marking method of a French missionary, created a set of scripts, which the Vietnamese called "Chinese characters". Since then, Vietnam has withdrawn from the Chinese character circle.
During the Vietnamese Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is also pasted, similar to China, where Chinese characters are written on red paper with a brush.
In addition, the Vietnamese will also write chinese characters such as "forbearance", "da", "heart" and paste them on red paper, just like the fu characters we paste.
Because the Vietnamese script has been Latinized, many young people cannot write Chinese characters, and writing Chinese characters on the street has become a profession. Most of the people doing this kind of work are elderly people, whom the Vietnamese call "Thuong".
Writing the Latin alphabet with a brush may be a phenomenon unique to Vietnam.
In Vietnam, the Latinized Vietnamese script is known as the "Chinese Character". Due to the uneven length of Chinese characters and the fact that they are not suitable for special occasions that require neat writing, but writing Chinese characters will cause inconvenience in recognition, so there is a Chinese calligraphy in Vietnam. This calligraphy mimics the block characters, embedding several letters into the blocks in a specific order and writing them out like Korean characters.
South Korea also has the custom of pasting spring leagues, called Lichun List, Lichun Book, Lichun Post, Lichun Zhu and so on. Although Chinese characters have been abolished in Korea, Chunlian is still written in Chinese characters.
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As for Japan, since the Minzhi Restoration, the Spring Festival has been changed to January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, and there are fewer people who have attached the Spring Festival, but the annual Kanji selected in Japan every year and the New Year calligraphy contest held in Tokyo have become a beautiful scenery in the Chinese cultural circle.
This is Japan's selection of the 2020 Kanji of the Year, and the Japan Kanji Proficiency Verification Association announced that the annual Kanji selected by Japan this year is "secret". This is related to Japan's "three secrets" epidemic prevention measures in the new crown epidemic, that is, avoid going to confined spaces, avoiding contact with dense crowds, and avoiding close contact with others. According to the custom, the selected Japanese Kanji of the year was officially announced after being written in large characters by Kiyomizuji Mori Kiyoshi Ofsei in Kyoto.
The annual New Year's calligraphy contest, which is quite solemn, has become a Regular New Year's event in Japan.
In Japan, the first thing done in the New Year is often considered particularly auspicious. So the first calligraphy of the New Year is considered the best way to make a New Year's wish.
The art of calligraphy is popular and revered in Japan, and practicing Kanji calligraphy is recognized as a great way to promote thinking and increase concentration.
This is January 5, 2018, Tokyo, Japan, where a New Year calligraphy contest was held at the Budokan Martial Arts Gym, with elementary school students splashing ink.
According to reports, the participants were strictly selected from all over Japan and ranged in age from 3 to 92 years old. They sat neatly and wrote with their pens to the sound of the drums of the live drums. People of all ages in Japan use brushes to write together, and the organizers hope to demonstrate Japanese calligraphy skills.
One participant, who was only 11 years old, said that although he was nervous, he was very excited to participate with so many people and had done his best to complete his work.
Contestants present their work.
The 2015 "Japanese Calligraphy Competition" kicked off on the morning of the 5th at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
Every new year, on the occasion of the New Year, we can see Xinhua News Agency publish such news photos, and every year more than 3,000 people participate in the live calligraphy competition, and the pictures are quite eye-catching.
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In 2011
Unfortunately, I didn't see the news of the New Year's Calligraphy Contest this year, is it due to the impact of the epidemic? I really hope that this traditional program can continue to be preserved in the future and become a unique New Year scenery in the Chinese cultural circle.