【Legend of the People】Rural "Xiucai" Wang Buhua | essay Wang Ether

Although the cultural level of the vast rural areas has generally improved, there is no problem in reading books and newspapers, and there is no requirement for writing letters and keeping accounts. However, those who can really take the pen and pole in the matter of marriage and burial, and get on the table alone, there are still very few, which can be described as rare. But Wang Buhua is the leader of our Wangzhuang Village and the "show talent" of the word "Xiu cai". His talent spans culture, calligraphy, the I Ching, and more, and here are just a few things I know.

I know Buhua because I first heard its name. He lived in the adjacent Panzhuang, and I came home less, and it turned out that they didn't know each other. But he has quite a relationship with our Wang Zhuang, the same family, although they later met, but slowly familiar with it is in the family's red and white happy events.

Because I also rushed back to the red and white celebrations, and every time I saw him busy on the inner and outer cabinets of the houses— or splashing ink, or deliberating on the joint draft, or silently keeping accounts, or solving doubts. At this time, I like to admire his calligraphy and then walk around to see it. Especially the inner cabinet, the outer cabinet, the deacon's list, the tea shed and other places. There are relatives and friends there, there are customs, there are knowledge and learning, and I am often overwhelmed. And many of these elaborate scene articles are from Bu Hua's hand.

In particular, the joint words on these scenes are more internal. Although there are different requirements for "red" or "white", Buhua can appropriately express the sad and joyful feelings and psychological appeals of the main family.

For example, if the wedding is festive, the words expressed in the marriage union will be different. When a girlfriend gets married, she will put a red sticker of "Joyful Door", and xilian is:

BMW welcomed cloud outsiders

The incense cart takes a step out of the middle of the moon

If the son is married, it is "double happiness at the door", and the joy is linked to the big book:

Poetry Du Fuqi three sentences

The first chapter of Zhou Nan is played

This is a happy couplet that has both cultural letters and good wishes, and has a festive atmosphere, which is deeply loved by people. Sometimes he would write:

Self-propelled Liang Shangyan

Blind date with gulls in the water

This is borrowed from Du Fu's poem "Jiangcun", and the inexhaustible love and tenderness of husband and wife. It is impossible to write without a certain cultural foundation. I remember that when I was a child, I saw that the third uncle of Mingwen had also written a happy link in this regard, and at that time, he was confused about the "three sentences" and "the first chapter", and then he slowly understood, and he knew that the third uncle was a learned person.

Uncle Mingwen had attended a private school and worked as a teacher, and although the collection of books in the family was small, he was fine, and he was as good as gold. Later, he gave me a hardcover edition of the Compendium of the General History of China compiled by Mr. Fan Wenlan, and on the last page of the book, he personally hand-read the book and said, "We must study history very well... The experience of history is noteworthy. When he sent me the book, he kindly advised: "I don't need it, only you can read it in our house, you must study hard." I was very touched, and when I came back, I repackaged the title page of the "Compendium" that had been damaged, and treasured it to this day. Bu Hua told me that uncle Three had also given him a book on application, and the name was forgotten and very precious. The third uncle has been ancient, but his ideals and hopes have not been disappointed, and from these red and white happy words at home, it seems that he can still see the image of his elegant master.

I have experienced that in the past affairs of the red and white celebrations, it is often more challenging to pay attention to and require the funeral of the white affairs, such as writing a bang, there are many distinctions and differences. What is used for men's funeral, women's funeral, men's and women's funerals, other funerals, and so on. It is necessary to write different contents according to different identities, and there must be no errors and far-fetchedness, otherwise it will be "provoked" and bring unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles. It is not easy to really make a mask, but fortunately, Bu Hua is good at this, and he can calmly cope with the situation and properly arrange to deal with it. In fact, he was very cautious from the beginning, choosing in advance to write a place that was both identity-appropriate and appropriate. For example, the elegance of the male mourner's writing is:

Yingling has become a Penglai guest

Devan Jukaku's hometown

For the country and the people, the law can be enforced

Talented and virtuous cause will last forever

The female mourners wrote the following:

Flowers fall rouge spring goes early

The soul is gone, and the dream is shocked

Embroidery pavilion flowers are sad with the crane

Dressing table night cold dreaming crane

The men and women's funerals are written as follows:

Wanli famous flowers condensed tears

A thousand streams are lamentations

If the parents die, the link reads:

Tsubaki trees mourn and die

Xuanhua withered and hated all year round

Give a positive evaluation to those who have contributed to the country and the nation:

Meritorious service to the sun and moon martyrs in history

The legacy of the heroes of the mountains and rivers is grandly displayed

Even at the tea shed of the reception, a tie is written to express gratitude to the guests. as:

Shed uncivilized temporarily bent over

Tea is supreme only to quench thirst

The examples of the above dimly remembered are not necessarily accurate.

The coffin is generally equipped with three doors: the main door, the left and right doors in front of the coffin, and a plaque is placed above each door. The content of each plaque is also different, the content of the gate plaque is to tell relatives and friends about the identity of the deceased and to express the sadness of the living for the deceased. Taking the father's funeral as an example, most of them are "when the big thing" and "Gong Chenghui hang" and other words; the small plaques are "Su Che", "White Horse", etc., and the couplet has "Shou Filial Piety Does Not Know the Red Sun Attached, Thinking of Relatives Only Sees Bai Yunfei." "There's something else. The content of the plaque above the altar is a summary or praise of the moral conduct and meritorious deeds of the deceased before his death, and also expresses the grief of the living for the deceased; the content of the plaque on the left and right doors in front of the coffin is to express the grief of the living for the deceased. The contents of the plaque vary depending on the identity of the deceased. Of course, there are many other more detailed internal letters that are emphasized and will not be repeated here. For these text requirements, Buhua can handle them in different categories, and there is never any deviation or error. It can be seen that he is knowledgeable and profound.

Especially in the cabinet of the pile house, relatives and guests of different identities are more particular about writing hearts and breaking filial piety, and the content and title of the heart, the different requirements and sizes of filial piety hats, filial piety, filial piety, and filial piety towels must be handled just right to make people satisfied. This was his busiest waiting, and he sometimes explained the reasons in the scriptures, and he went out of his way to explain them until the guests were satisfied.

Writing this, I suddenly remembered his calligraphy, which is also rare, and I encouraged him to publish it and share it with others. But its willingness is not deep. Although his calligraphy is not self-contained, it also has many remarkable points. For example, his calligraphy has a strict and orderly European body of law- thick and heavy, full of meaning; the writing has the charm of Wang Xizhi's everyone - it is easy and vigorous, free and smooth; dignified and miscellaneous, strong and beautiful, just jian and feminine.

Buhua is not only knowledgeable and experienced, but also enthusiastic and helpful. It is a "show talent" that the whole village cannot do without. There are more than 3,000 people in Wangzhuang Village, and the Wang family is a large surname, divided into long, second and third rooms. Which room has a problem, it is generally operated by the person in the room. But he did not care about the head of the house, regardless of the distance, all enthusiastic to go, seriously help to handle, he believes that they are all family, there is no need to share anything to alienate each other. He said so and did it, and I have seen him busy at the red and white wedding events in the long, second, and third rooms. He was equally enthusiastic about his relatives and friends, and I gave him one copy every time I published a new book, and he still asked for an extra one after receiving it, saying that it was given to his relative, Mr. Zou Wenrui. I was too ashamed to be clumsy and superficial, and he would fulfill his wish. Mr. Zou Wenrui I know, a cultural celebrity, settled in Beijing, editor-in-chief of the Chinese and foreign celebrity calligraphy and painting newspaper, which once published my essay "Fangting River". It is a very influential newspaper. He has built a cultural exchange base in his hometown of Bayiji, and I have had the privilege of visiting.

Bu Hua is also very enthusiastic about finding roots and asking ancestors. In the past, we had talked about the older generation's hometown in the nest of the King of Juning, just a dozen kilometers, but we had never been there, let alone the family there, and I felt sorry. The year before yesterday, I had just returned home because of the red and white affairs, and he hurriedly found me and said to me happily: "Third brother, Wang Wozi has heard from me, they have built a group there, you can contact me when you join the group." I was overjoyed. He immediately used WeChat to contact Guangcai Lao, and immediately joined the "Taiyuan Three Acacia Hall Group", and finally got his wish and fulfilled his wish for many years.

Later, initiated by Guangcai Lao and others, the Seven Cultivation Genealogies of the Gongzhi of the Three Acacia Halls of the Wang Clan joined the clan as one heart and actively participated, and the music added bricks and tiles to the cultivation of the scores, and the cultivation became a grand event for the descendants of the Tang Gong to unite and progress. Bu Huarong was appointed as the head of the Shu shu, and since then, the burden of "Xiu Cai" has become heavier, and there have been more things. Vast world, great achievements. I am convinced that he will live up to his expectations and make new contributions to the successful completion of the great cause of genealogy cultivation. Under the inspiration of everyone's spirit, although I was old, I was also ordered to gladly preface the Seven Cultivation Genealogy, with the intention of contributing a little to the Cultivation Genealogy. May the Seven Cultivation Genealogy be a complete success at an early date!

I hope that everyone's favorite rural "show talents" will be more and more.