Whenever Chinese New Year's Eve, when the family is busy washing, steaming, and making preparations for the New Year, I often take the initiative to ask for help and take over the heavy responsibility of pasting the Spring Festival. Because I don't like the cookie-cutter, scripted Spring League in the world, every year the Spring League is written by myself. Speaking from the heart, only this is the time when I am happiest, and I am still ecstatic and excited when I think of writing the Spring League and those interesting things about the Spring League.
The origin of Chunlian has a long history, and the reason why it has been passed down to this day is because it contains the essence of the culture of our Chinese nation for thousands of years. In people's eyes, the Spring Festival is like a festive warm sun, a deserted yard, pasted with a red and lustrous Spring League, in an instant it will be bright and warm and lively. We often see Chinese New Year's Eve day, people drive dozens of miles back to their hometowns, just to paste a pair of spring leagues in front of the old house, so writing spring leagues and buying spring leagues years ago has become an indispensable event. I remember my middle school Chinese teacher, on this day, always carrying a piece of red paper in his pocket, when someone asked him for a couplet, he would not hesitate to splash ink.
As for the content of the Spring League, few people pay attention to it. People think that it is just some congratulations, blessings and other auspicious words, the New Year, what is the picture? It's just a happy idea! As for the content of the Spring League, it seems that people feel that it is not so important.
For me, the content of the Spring League is extremely important. Chunlian has been passed down for thousands of years and is a form of Cultural Inheritance in China for 5,000 years. I know how many pounds I have, although I don't understand culture, I respect culture, I respect culture, and I want to pursue culture even more. I like to read the Spring League, and when I encounter those interesting and pearly couplets, I often like to familiarize myself with it. Of course, there is no shortage of anachronistic and hilarious Spring Leagues, and naturally they are also familiar with it. I remember that the Spring League on the door of a household in the village is like this, the upper link is "the boy is incompetent and blind", the lower link is "when to plant and fight", and the horizontal batch is "the wise one retreats". Before seeing the contents of the Spring League, the courtyard was a scene of spring light and melting; when the content of the Spring League was read, the courtyard became a terrible face that combined anger, hatred and curse. Not to mention that this pair of Spring League's battles is not neat and tidy, and the symmetry of the flat and symmetrical is not appropriate, the meaning of the single text is extremely out of proportion to this universal celebration, like a toad crawling on the foot surface - not biting but disgusting. However, there are two sides to everything, and this couplet still has its advantages, that is, the author has written his own state of mind, which is still worth learning.
"Near Zhu is red, near ink is black", the hobbies of my son and nephew coincide with mine, and they all like to write Spring League. Every year Chinese New Year's Eve, we get together like ants love honey . Sometimes the pairs we write are really warm, really sweet, and catchy to read. Whenever we encounter this, we will happily dance with our eyebrows, dance with our hands, and have the same pleasure as the angler who can catch a fish under the hook. People should have a hobby, and there are many pleasures hidden in the hobby that ordinary people cannot enjoy. However, the writing of the Spring League is really laborious and painstaking, due to its small amount of knowledge reserves, the number of exercises once a year is also small, and there are few works that we are very satisfied with, but we still enjoy it year after year.
I remember one Chinese New Year's Eve evening, the sound of firecrackers Chinese New Year's Eve other people's homes had sounded, and our Spring League still had not been written, and I couldn't help but be anxious. At this time, the son took out a picture for me to see, the upper link "Five Sisters and the First Peach Spring", the lower link "Six Brothers Dengke Like Willow Green Welcome Summer". I looked at it in surprise and said, "It's really good!" It's just a matter of showing off. Forget it, just paste it on the second floor, where few people see it. After posting it, the son remembered that he forgot to write the horizontal batch, what to write? I said in a hurry, "What you are writing about is our family's affairs, so let's write about a family surnamed Shao." So we laid out the paper, wrote it in the traditional order from right to left, and then pasted it, and we were relieved.
On the first day of the first year, it was a big reunion of dozens of people in the family, which was very lively, and it was natural to appreciate the Spring Festival. A large group of people watched next to the door and read, and then went up to the second floor. Finally, the niece Jiaojiao made a comment: "There are six paintings on the first floor, and they are all well written." The second floor is not OK, just don't say, what is written! Also the family name Shao, a little culture can not be?! The words did not fall, the laughter had resounded throughout the courtyard, and I laughed, knowing that my niece had misunderstood. We wrote it in the traditional order of writing couplets, and she read it in the modern order of writing, can it taste the same? Of course, we don't care, what we care about is the happy mood of a big family in the Spring Festival.
Today, the battle against COVID-19 has been going on for more than two years. In the three Spring Festivals of more than two years, we all lived at home. It's okay, for the great achievements made by the people of the whole country in fighting the epidemic will not be in vain, what is the harm in our staying at home! This year I thought about a pair of Spring League, everyone is not smiling, welcome to comment:
Not running away, not getting together for the New Year, not adding trouble to the country
Eat well and drink spring festival home together to contribute to the motherland
Yokozuna: Happy Motherland
Editor-in-charge: Wang Fang YuanXiu Ruogu
About the Author
Shao Fafu, a native of Jiyuan, Henan, retired teacher, is now idle at home and enjoying his grandson. He has been engaged in cultural and sports education for a long time, and has a lot of involvement in literature and art, so whenever he feels something, he resorts to words, especially essays and essays.