Writing and pasting Spring Festival couplets is one of the most distinctive Spring Festival customs, and it is an important New Year's festival symbol that has been inherited by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door pairs" and "couplets", depict a beautiful image with neat, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. When people post New Year's red (Spring Festival couplets, "Fu" characters, window flowers, etc.) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicks off. Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should pick up beautiful red spring couplets and paste them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new year, increasing the festive atmosphere. Regarding the origin of the Spring Festival couplets, one theory is that the Spring Festival couplets are derived from the peach symbol. According to the "Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty", the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the two gods of "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" are written on the peach board. "On the first day of the first lunar month, the peach charm is made into the household, the name is immortal wood, and the ghosts are afraid. ”
In the five dynasties, in the court of Xishu, someone inscribed couplets on the peach symbol. The Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "The Spring Festival couplets are peach charms." Another theory is that the Spring Festival couplets come from the spring stickers, and the ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into the Spring Festival couplets. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the cultural rituals supporting the door gods were formed, and the functions of the door gods were strengthened, such as driving away evil spirits and warding off ghosts, guarding the house, keeping peace, helping utilitarianism, and reducing auspiciousness. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty began to prevail, and in the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic qualities of the Spring Festival couplets have been greatly improved. Now it has become a custom to paste Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese people to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome auspicious blessings. On the occasion of the Spring Festival, this newspaper specially plans a column of "Famous Masters Teach You to Write Spring Festival Couplets" for readers. (Editor)
Spring Festival couplets are an indispensable part of life
Text/Zhang Shigang
I once saw a couplet with the name of the Qing Dynasty calligrapher Wang Wenzhi, the upper couplet is "Guanhua Lotte and the mountain are quiet", and the lower couplet is "You and Hug Lang are spring everywhere".
Literally, it seems to be a collection of characters from "Orchid Pavilion Preface". Because most of the characters in the couplets are collected from the text of "Lanting Preface", but there is no word "all" in the text of "Lanting Preface", it cannot be regarded as a collection of characters. In this couplet, the battle between the upper and lower sentences is not rigorous enough, and a discerning person will know that the text does not reach the meaning at a glance. So on this basis, I made some adjustments, and the content after the change is: "Guanhua Lotte Charen Quiet Room, Swimming in the Water and Spring." This is the pure collection of words of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", because all the words come from the "Orchid Pavilion Preface". I think that the structure of the adjusted couplet is more reasonable and complete, and the meaning is more profound and interesting. It's perfectly fine to use this couplet as a couplet.
Writing Spring Festival couplets is a cultural practice in China since ancient times. Most of today's people have gradually diluted the traditional form and content of the Spring Festival couplets that circulate. Even some people do not know the basic structure of this literary form, and they can't even distinguish between the upper and lower couplets, and the sentences are often reversed. As for the battle of balance and part of speech, it is even less particular. Actually, the Chinese couplet is very interesting and not complicated. With a little care, you can master it and use it well. Especially during the annual Spring Festival, Spring Festival couplets are an indispensable part of public life. As long as it is Chinese, during the Spring Festival, in addition to bringing filial piety and funeral, every household must post Spring Festival Lian. No matter how life goes, I hope that the coming year will be better, and I will express my good wishes in the form of Spring Festival couplets. Of course, this is also one of the best folk customs of the Chinese nation.
Generally speaking, when it comes to the Spring Festival, most people like to write Spring Festival couplets in line script and regular script. There are very few seal books and official books. Cursive writing is even less common. In fact, no matter what kind of book style is written, the Spring Festival couplets are good, the main thing is to ask for a celebration and an auspiciousness.
However, in order to meet the needs of the public and cater to the public's aesthetics, it is more popular to use Xingshu or Kaishu Spring Festival couplets. In terms of content, it must be auspicious, healthy, positive, and often long couplets with a large number of words will be more popular. The long link is rich in content and means that it will last a long time. Therefore, I wrote this eight-word "Orchid Pavilion Preface" collection of characters with lines, and used it as a Spring Festival couplet. The so-called "eight" is also "hair". This is a homonym for a local slang.
Spring Festival couplets calligraphy should consider the aesthetics of the people
Text/Wang Asia
Spring Festival couplets are not only a decoration, but also a cultural symbol. As a symbol of the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival couplets represent the beginning of the new year and the happy reunion of the family. As a traditional custom, the Spring Festival couplets give the Spring Festival a unique atmosphere, and also imply good wishes and expectations for the new year.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the calligraphy community carries out more voluntary activities of "art into ten thousand homes", among which writing Spring Festival couplets and sending the word "Fu" are also a bridge between calligraphers and the people to celebrate the festival, which is the concrete embodiment of art for the people. I think that the vast majority of Spring Festival couplets are oriented to the people, and their calligraphy style is not the same as calligraphy creation in the real sense, and more consideration should be given to the aesthetics of the people, not too artistic and the so-called stylization, it is precisely to work the word "beautiful".
The first is to write the Spring Festival couplets in regular script or line, which is clear and steady, and the line is smooth and free. Cursive script and seal script are difficult for non-professional people to identify, and official scripts are also easy to cause confusion; The beautiful content is the main thing, and the down-to-earth content is more easy to understand; the third is that the ink color is often thick and black and shiny, in order to present a full mental state, and the light ink is sad; the fourth is that the word spacing should not be staggered up and down, and the upper and lower links should be kept relatively balanced and coordinated; fifth, the thickness and light importance of the lines are determined according to the emotional expression and atmosphere creation, and cannot be generalized; the sixth is that the writing process of the Spring Festival couplets should be clean and tidy to avoid ink dot pollution and ink flow; seventh, even if a certain degree of artistry is considered, it is necessary to try to avoid weirdness and twisting, and dignified is the premise。
Spring Festival couplets calligraphy should be "elegant and vulgar appreciation"
Text/Cui Shenghui
"Spring Festival couplets" is a unique cultural form posted by the Chinese nation during the Spring Festival, the "first of the hundred festivals". The folk custom of sticking spring couplets began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. The appearance of the term "Spring Festival couplets" was in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.
The Spring Festival couplets are characterized by festive and peaceful content, which is people's expectation and longing for a better year ahead. Its battle work is stable, concise and bright, composed of couplets on both sides of the door and the horizontal batch on the lintel, and the middle can also be accompanied by the word "Fu" or the door god New Year's painting. The main function is to set off the festive atmosphere and create people's joyful mood.
The calligraphy of the Spring Festival couplets is mainly in regular script, official script, line script or line script, and its purpose is to allow more people to recognize its text content. In the choice of calligraphy style, it is as "elegant and vulgar as possible", because it is more practical than artistic. In the choice of paper, red color paper is generally used, red means welcome, if there is a change in color, it is related to local customs.
"Spring Linhuatang is full of flowers, blessed to the door and full of joy", when I write this couplet, I choose the font of Lishu, and strive to be dignified and elegant, and use the thickness of the dot painting and the size of the glyph to adjust the overall rhythm change in the stability of the knot. The ink color does not seek wet pen dry ink, and is mainly round and plump.
In short, I hope this couplet can add some festive atmosphere and joyful mood to everyone.
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