Say couplets

The fiery Spring Festival couplets are excellent Chinese culture, and pasting Spring Festival couplets is the best form to inherit Chinese culture.

Entering the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, people selling couplets came into being in the streets and alleys of the town and the alleys of the county. On a few square meters of land, there are various blessing words such as horizontal couplet, vertical couplet, blessing word and spring scenery. Others eat with a pen. From the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, they began to cram at home, tidy up a crowded place, put a chopping board, write a pen, an inkstone and cut a piece of red paper, that is, write all the belongings of Spring Festival couplets. The writer splashed ink and waved his hand, and his brushwork was magnificent, vigorous or tactful, or graceful.

With the development of the times, the materials for writing Spring Festival couplets are also advancing with the times. "Gu Mo grinds a few incense lightly, and the new bath in Dianchi Lake is full of light." Black inkstone is full of ink, vivid and elegant; With the follow-up of printing technology, bronzing characters were born, resplendent and beaming. The authors of Spring Festival couplets bought gold powder and mixed it with rare materials. When they splashed ink, the words they chose, Huang Chengcheng's mellow Chinese characters, appeared in their pens.

I remember when I was a child, the Spring Festival came, and there were three yards and more than twenty couplets at home, all of which were posted by our four brothers. The time is usually chosen in the afternoon of New Year's Eve. After returning from the grave, the time for posting couplets is now one or even two days in advance. This year's time is a bit special. New Year's Eve is the beginning of spring, and the day before the beginning of spring is farewell day. People think it is inappropriate to post couplets on this day, so they choose to post couplets on the 28th, but there are also 29 couplets and 30 couplets. In any case, put up red couplets, hang up red lanterns, blow the horn of the village, and the yangko team dances, with a strong flavor of the year in all kinds of feelings.

Sticking couplets is a technical activity, strictly speaking, a cultural activity. If you post such couplets in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Pig, it will make a big joke and make people laugh.

The last word when pasting Spring Festival couplets is the key to distinguish the upper and lower couplets. According to the rules of meter, the last word of the first couplet must be the end of a tone (three tones and four tones in Mandarin), and the second couplet is the end of a flat tone (one tone and two tones in Mandarin). For example, rich financial resources, high fortune and good luck. This pair of couplets: the first couplet should be a lucky place (right), and the second couplet should be a rich family (left).

"In addition to firecrackers at the age of one, the spring breeze warmed Tu Su. Thousands of families always change new peaches for old ones every day. " Before posting Spring Festival couplets, we had to "create" this year's couplets, commonly known as "shabby". Sometimes couplets have been piled up into a thick layer over the years, which needs moisture and can be scraped off with a spatula to lay a flat and clean foundation for pasting couplets.

Put a pot of paste on it, thin and soft, find a broom handle and dip it in the paste, or put it on the door list or on the new couplet. If the weather is fine and the temperature is right, just do it once, but it is a good time to post couplets. If the north wind howls and the water drops turn into ice, not only will your hands be sore and cold, but the paste on it may freeze at any time, and it is exhausting to check the non-sticky parts from time to time.

Wei Chijingde and Qin Qiong, the red-faced hero, stay by their side all the year round, guarding the safety of the family. The janitor should pay attention to the fact that the faces of the characters on both sides of the door are opposite, so don't stick them upside down. The door of the old building is two opposite doors, and the door god just sticks one on one side. Now the houses are all single doors, and two door gods can only be attached to the same door. Pay attention to the beautiful and generous position when pasting.

Heaven and earth should be affixed with couplets of "the sky is high, the sun and the moon are high, the land is thick and the mountains and rivers are thick" and "the sky is thick". Just above it, there is a big blessing, and below it, the courtyard is full of spring and suddenly it is bright. The yard is full of flowers and my heart is full of sunshine.

When you go out, write blessings when you go in and out, such as "seeing happiness when you go out" and "greeting happiness when you receive happiness". Write the word "Fu" in black on red paper, and good luck will come naturally.

By the time more than 20 couplets were posted, it was already dusk, brightly lit and well-maintained hands were "blooming", and dribs and drabs of paste were everywhere on the arm sleeves and trouser legs, showing the true colors of "working people". Looking at the labor achievements of the whole hospital, I feel a heat flow in my body and a warm current surging in my heart.

In the new era, the door panel is flat and smooth, so you don't need to stick it. Buy all kinds of couplets and stick them on the mountain with transparent tape. The time is very short, and it looks elegant. It loses the excitement and enthusiasm of childhood, adds a little perfunctory feelings, and has a strong flavor of the year without a slight feeling.

I am extremely concerned about the contents of couplets, such a cultural phenomenon and the stories hidden in it. Looking through the prose collection of Tang Xingshun, chairman of Anyang Writers Association, a couplet of Xueguang Temple has far-reaching artistic conception: there is no light in front of the temple to shine on the moon, and the mountain gate is not locked as a cloud seal, which is deeply remembered; Wang Anshi's trip to the bridal chamber is really a blessing in life, because "the lamp runs, the lamp stops, and the flying tiger flag hides." I have heard of a self-deprecating couplet by Mr. Guo: when the family is in debt, it is surrounded by clouds, not only laughing; A pair of couplets on the trestle of Youth Cave Scenic Area, "Chivalrous and benevolent, a guest in the clouds, clear and outstanding, with a clear conscience", appeals to both refined and popular tastes, and is in harmony with people at the right time and place.

Recently, I got a classic couplet article in history, which is difficult to connect, lacks words, plays less, answers less, and is heartless ... A thousand-year classic is interesting! I can't put this book down, and I'm happy to read it!

The sun and the moon are in the kettle, and Gankun is in the sleeve! Small couplets, big culture! Look closely at the couplets of past lives and read the Chinese civilization of 5,000 years!