Chat about ancient poems‖ Read Wen Zhengming's "New Year's greetings" and talk about New Year's greetings

Wen Zhengming

He didn’t ask for a meeting but wanted to pay a visit. His famous papers filled the house.

I also throw in a few pieces of paper with others. The world is too simple but not too empty.

Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), formerly known as Bi, also had the courtesy name Zhengming. Hengshan layman, also known as "Wenhengshan" in the world, was a painter, calligrapher and writer in the Ming Dynasty. Han nationality, from Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Zeng Guan Hanlin awaited the imperial edict. Together with Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin and Xu Zhenqing, he is also known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong".

Ye (yè): Famous post.

We: used for things related to oneself.

It’s time to pay New Year greetings again. In the past, when it was lively, the work union would organize gongs and drums, led by the leaders of the work unit, and visit the homes of employees who had not returned to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year. Later, mobile phones became popular, and New Year greetings via phone calls and New Year greetings via text messages became popular. Make a phone call, or compose a text message, click on the name in the mobile phone address book, and send a group New Year greeting. No matter how far apart we are, we can always ask and wish each other a happy New Year. Later, WeChat became popular, and the group became popular, so people started to send New Year greetings and red envelopes on WeChat. For a while, WeChat was lively, and the group was also lively. Especially due to the COVID-19 epidemic, in order to see each other more in the future, we can only not meet each other now and meet across the screen.

Times are changing, and so are the forms of New Year greetings. But we still have to pay New Year greetings. If we don’t meet in person, we have to pay New Year greetings in another way. This is etiquette. In fact, greeting New Year without seeing each other is not a modern invention, it has been around since ancient times. Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty described this scene in "New Year's Greetings":

Instead of meeting each other, I use greetings to say hello; the precious greetings are piled up in my study early in the morning. I also followed the trend and (sent someone) to send out some greeting cards; it was the custom of the time to pay attention to the etiquette, but not to pay special attention to the importance of the etiquette.

Mr. Wen is describing the life of rich people, right? Those who can afford to be the underlings will be sent out early in the morning to send out greetings. Others also look for people to send messages. If someone comes in person, it would be very tiring to accept the messages! Think about it, there are piles of worship stickers all over the house!

With the advancement of science and technology, ordinary people now have a mobile phone in hand and can greet the New Year without meeting each other. Let the ordinary people in ancient times be envious, jealous and hateful, and let the extraordinary people in ancient times find it difficult to show off, and they can no longer show off!

On the day of New Year greetings, I also send you blessings along with the screen: Happy New Year! In the Year of the Tiger, may the dragon be lively, the tiger be powerful, and the tiger be even more powerful! To put it simply, it means that you are in good health, in a good mood, and everything goes as you want!