There is a unique custom in the Chinese New Year, which is to paste Spring Festival couplets. Except for the Chinese New Year's Eve, I maverickly did not post the Spring Festival, and every year I would paste a big red Spring Festival link to show that the old was broken and the new was removed, and I prayed for auspicious celebrations. I couldn't get my own calligraphy, so I had to ask someone to write Spring Festival couplets or buy ready-made ones, but they often didn't satisfy me. Especially the commodity Spring Festival couplets, most of the couplets are unsatisfactory, and there is no calligraphy beauty, so I can't help but think of the Spring Festival couplets written by my grandfather. Every Chinese New Year's Eve, Grandpa begins a new Spring Festival, such as: Spring breeze and spring rain paving splendor;
Red stars and red sunshine. The garden is full of spring and peach-in-law;
A Dan heart to the sun.
The peach and plum garden is full of smiles; Ten thousand plum blossoms are coming in spring.
Spring Festival couplets can not only be drafted, but must be drawn up more than one, because in addition to not only their own family to write, grandpa's calligraphy is famous, and many neighbors also come to ask grandpa to write Spring Festival couplets, grandpa is also willing to help.
Before writing the Spring Festival couplets, the red paper is cut to the required size, and of course, the couplet banner at the door of the hall is the widest. Grinding ink, there is a ready-made bottle of ink is free. The table was cleaned up, and then the grandfather swiped his pen, and the strong and powerful characters appeared on the paper. After each word, the paper had to be moved forward, and my grandfather asked me to help roll the paper on the other side of the table. After writing one, I helped spread it on the ground to dry. If there is no paste, boil rice milk. Bring a long ladder, first paste the horizontal batch, and then stick it on both sides. When posting, someone must be watching down: whether it is left or right, high or low, and you can only understand it when you stand below. When I posted it, my grandfather taught me which is the upper link, which is the lower link, and the mantra is "the last word of the upper link, it must be the sound of the voice; The last word of the next couplet, it must be a flat sound", the upper link must be posted on the left side of the door, and the lower link must be posted on the right side of the door, standing in front of the door to read the Spring Festival couplets, then read right like reading a line-bound book. Now I happen to look at the Spring Festival couplets next to people's doors, hehe, often the upper couplets are pasted into the lower ones.
When I went to high school and college, my grandfather felt that it was time to train me, so he asked me to write the Spring Festival couplets he proposed. How can I get my hands on those few strokes, naturally very unhappy, but I can't stand the repeated encouragement of my grandfather, and finally muster up the courage, write down seriously one stroke at a time, at that time I felt that the pulse was not smooth, and when it was really pasted on the door, the words were big or small, crooked, and I didn't want to go first, but grandpa let them greet people who came and went to greet the New Year on the first day of the New Year, and told those who would taste it: "This is written by my grandson Zhiyanzi." "The bright red couplets are pasted on the door, and in the sun and the wind blows, and soon they fade, worn, or even disappear, and no one pays any attention to them. Only when the new year comes, will "always replace the new peach with the old charm".
Now the couplets pasted in the corridors of the buildings are bright red and new all year round, but the memories they give me are shallow, shallow. That being said, can anyone not post Spring Festival couplets? If you don't post it, it's like there's something missing. No, even the head of the Tibetan neighbor's house on the first floor of my house has a Tibetan Spring Festival couplet pasted on it. When my grandfather was alive, my father often wrote Spring Festival couplets. After grandpa left, writing Spring Festival couplets naturally fell on my father. Spring couplets are a kind of couplets, which benefit from the square characters of Chinese characters, with the beauty of symmetry, and pinyin characters cannot be written in couplets. It has far-reaching influence, not only the north and south of the river have the custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets, but also every Spring Festival, each unit should also paste Spring Festival couplets, or organize calligraphers to carry out Spring Festival couplets activities. As soon as a red Spring Festival couplet is pasted, the New Year is coming, adding joy and spirit. It's really - red plum announces a thousand family blessings, and snow welcomes spring and thousands of trees! (*Network).