Sticking Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters for the Chinese New Year is a unique cultural form in China, which first originated from the peach charm of the Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. The traditional Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters are written on red paper with Chinese ink, and red has the meaning of auspiciousness and warding off evil spirits. This custom carries the most simple life ideals of the Chinese people, contains a rich connotation of traditional Chinese culture, and is auspicious and auspicious. This tradition embodies people's expectations for the Spring Festival and the yearning for a better life, and has become a unique scenery at the door of thousands of households. This fashion records all the feelings of calligraphy lovers, every pen, every touch of color, is like a moving note in a beautiful movement.
The new peach is replaced by the old charm, and Hanmo sends blessings. On the morning of January 25, 2024, on the small square in front of the Guangcai Art Research Institute of "Lan Guitang" in Xiaogang Park, Guangzhou, the public welfare activity of welcoming the Spring Festival and sending blessings held by the Art Working Committee of the Haizhu District Folk Literature and Art Association opened lively, injecting a warm background color into the winter and creating a joyful atmosphere for the Year of the Dragon.
Calligraphers and painters Au Weiyuan, Lu Junfu, Liu Kaiyan, Li Xianda, Chen Ziqiang and calligraphy enthusiasts all participated. They splash ink, swaying to their heart's content, line, grass, seal, subordinate, Kai, different calligraphy on the red paper stretched out, atmospheric, graceful, unrestrained, beautiful, elegant, refreshing, each beautiful, such as a cultural landscape, for the citizens and neighbors to send New Year blessings.
The thick ink book is blessed, and the Year of the Dragon is full of blessings. Li Xianda, a master of arts and crafts in Guangzhou and a famous calligrapher and painter, relies on his familiarity with traditional Fu culture and the aesthetic and psychological value orientation of the masses, with a rigorous creative attitude and heartfelt respect. At the event site of the day, the blessing characters written by the master are unique in creativity and full of momentum; the pen and ink are skillful, the calligraphy is changeable; simple and dignified, elegant and chic; the meaning is rich and very connotative; the passion is full and people exclaim! The simple atmosphere, the ink rhyme of calligraphy and the concept of happiness are integrated, and the same blessing is written in different ways!
The master believes that there are many ways to write the word "Fu", and the literal meaning of this word is combined with the meaning of Fu to show the yearning for a better life. As long as they understand each other and understand it, no matter who they give it to, no matter where they are posted, people will have a sense of happiness after reading it, and they will have a festive atmosphere for the New Year in their hearts.
This year is the Year of the Dragon, and the descendants of the dragon are not only a title for the descendants of Yan and Huang, but also a summary of the unique culture and spiritual outlook of the Chinese nation. At the event site, the calligraphers and painters wrote the Fai Chun, and there were many works containing the words Fu and the dragon.
Mr. Ou Weiyuan, who has been teaching art for more than 40 years and is a full-time art teacher at Guangzhou Lingnan School Memorial Middle School, is one of them. At the scene, I saw the teacher laying out paper, dipping it in ink, and waving ...... After a while, a combination of auspicious "Fulong" paintings with full lines, atmosphere, smoothness, vividness and image appeared on the paper, full of fun. The painter is serious, and the viewer is fascinated. It embodies the cultural characteristics of traditional Chinese calligraphy and art creativity, and is an innovation and display of traditional Chinese culture.
The red spring and the thick fragrance of ink convey people's longing and yearning for the upcoming Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon. "Longteng is prosperous and thousands of families are happy, and spring is full of all things in Shenzhou", "Blessing to the door and the auspicious clouds, spring to the Huatang to add Ruiqi"......
Praise a good life, full of auspicious blessings, express good wishes, and reflect the voices of the people.
Look at the drying on the ground, on the flower base, on the garden road, on the railing...... The citizens and neighbors not only appreciate the creation of calligraphy and painting, but also appreciate the meaning of the Spring Festival couplets; they also choose their favorites, which are really warm and happy! When they get the Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters that they like, they are full of joy and thank you again and again! An aunt said happily: "These calligraphers and painters write really well, and they have more warmth and meaning than those printed." These auspicious Spring Festival couplets not only send warmth to the citizens and neighborhoods, but also spread traditional Chinese culture.
"Famous people send blessings, especially blessed. The Spring Festival blessing activity not only allows us to ask for a good fortune and good fortune on the occasion of the arrival of the New Year, but also allows us to obtain the authentic works of famous artists, but also allows us to really have the opportunity to get close to calligraphers and painters, in contact and exchanges, understand and learn Chinese traditional culture and art. A group of ladies said in unison.
This event, until noon, the ink is exhausted, and the people are still unsatisfied, and the joy is overflowing.
Photo: Luo Ke'an
Editor: Xie Diying