Editor's note: One yuan is renewed, and everything is renewed. The year 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and is a crucial year for achieving the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan. In order to fully demonstrate the remarkable achievements of Shandong's economic and social development, and vividly show the happy and peaceful scene of the masses of people celebrating the Spring Festival, Luwang launched the column of "Walking to the Grassroots in the New Year", and opened three columns: "Longxing Lang Lang Basking in the New Scene", "Longma Spiritual Speech Example" and "Living Dragon Talking to the Heart".
Luwang, February 9 (Reporter Fan Jinxin) The footsteps of the year are always accompanied by a sense of ceremony. On February 9, Chinese New Year's Eve, I finally rushed home on the last day of vacation. In our Lubei village, the Spring Festival must be placed on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Writing and pasting Spring Festival couplets is a traditional Chinese New Year custom. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household on both sides of the gate is pasted with prayers for auspicious words, the Spring Festival couplets with good wishes, black characters on a red background, steady and bright, expressing the beautiful expectations and visions of each family for the New Year.
Posting Spring Festival couplets, which is a very participatory thing, is naturally placed on young people. I'm happy to do it. Sort out the left and right order of the Spring Festival couplets, step on the bench, and use glue tape to stick the Spring Festival couplets one by one to the door frame. "The Golden Dragon is happy to celebrate the New Year, and everything is going well. Looking at the "masterpiece" in front of me, I said that this year's post is also good.
In the past, every household was pasted with handwritten Spring Festival couplets, and the atmosphere of the New Year was also particularly strong at that time. In the past few years, when I went home during the Spring Festival, I walked around the whole village, and I couldn't find a few handwritten Spring Festival couplets, which was a pity. In the past, the Spring Festival couplets were written by the elders of the family, and the calligraphy was not necessarily too good, but the "handwritten Spring Festival couplets" had their own New Year's flavor! Some families will also take the initiative to find a "calligrapher" who writes well in the neighboring townships, and can post a whole Spring Festival, and the writer's sense of accomplishment is naturally full.
It is undeniable that compared with the "handwritten Spring Festival couplets", the "printed Spring Festival couplets" are indeed very exquisite, but the content is mostly "the same", lacking the traditional ink fragrance and the "spirit" of handwritten Chinese characters, and the traditional New Year's flavor will naturally fade. People write Spring Festival couplets and paste Spring Festival couplets in order to express their good wishes for the new year.
It is gratifying that on the eve of the Spring Festival in recent years, calligraphers and calligraphy lovers from all over the world will always wave on the spot to write and send Spring Festival couplets for the people, taking on the important task of writing traditional Spring Festival couplets and promoting the Spring Festival couplets culture, which has added a strong New Year's flavor. Returning to the simple handwritten Spring Festival couplets, every stroke is the awe and continuation of traditional culture, which can allow modern people to feel the customs and taste nostalgia in the thick fragrance of ink.
The pen walks the dragon and the snake show their own charm, and the horizontal and vertical skimming is full of hope. The handwritten Spring Festival couplets can use the solemn ritual sense of folk culture to set off a strong festival atmosphere and show the unique charm of China's excellent traditional culture. It is the flavor of the year under the tip of the pen, and it is a treasure in folklore.