Essay: The story of me and couplets.

The original first author Shen

On New Year's Eve, there are no lights to add color to Gan Kun.

The new spring thunder didn't play three drums for fame.

It's New Year's Eve again. I'm going to be ten years old, and I can already post couplets to my mother, but I don't care much, because the smell of meat keeps drilling into my nose, which makes me greedy! That's the black pig I helped adults feed for a year, and now I'm holding kelp in a meat jar. I licked my lips and imagined the taste of meat. I was flustered and pulled out a pair of couplets. I'm so stupid. Mom said, "Look at you! Fuck it! I have to ask your uncle to write another pair. "

I should have called and left in a hurry. My uncle lives in the alley next door. I thought as I ran: What do you mean you left? Will you be trained? I went and saw my uncle writing couplets. My uncle is an educator and is good at calligraphy. That regular script is neat and rigorous; Weeds grow wild. One pen and one ink per person, one knife of red paper, like a swan flying in the blue sky, with ink on the red paper. I think the brush is like my uncle's long finger, which is very flexible, but the words written are ever-changing.

Fu has the most fonts, which are dignified, humorous, vigorous, elegant and beautiful. A dozen blessings lined up, really beautiful girls. I was fascinated by it, and then I went to see the couplets hanging on the ground. I can't read cursive. If I can understand two words, I will guess and read them. My aunt said that I could read more words at the age of ten, and my face turned red. If you can't guess, your uncle will read it. When I came back, my mother said to me, "Isn't your uncle at home after so long?"

Every year after the Spring Festival, I go to "help" my uncle, in fact, to appreciate the process of couplets, calligraphy and writing. The breath of childhood is rippling in the annual Spring Festival couplets.

On the first day, I followed the adults to pay New Year greetings and watch Spring Festival couplets. The more I look at it, the more I feel about the United States: concise and profound, neat and neat, even and harmonious, full of rhythm. I don't want to stop and watch it several times when I meet someone I like. I looked up, and the adults all walked away and began to chase. ...

After lunch, everyone began to enjoy rare entertainment: going to the county seat, visiting Longshan, watching movies and meeting classmates ... But I invited Zheng Li, picked up a pen and notebook, and began to copy Spring Festival couplets in the street.

First transferred to the bookstore, the couplet is: birds want to fly first, people want to read.

Passing by a middle school, I wrote: at the age of 20, I still have thousands of fruits when I go to Xingtan, and I will come to teach the garden to see flowers in spring.

I have seen several tailor shops, and I like this couplet best: one inch of cloth and one inch of silk make the best use of it, without arrogance or rashness.

A hotel couplet: delicious food attracts guests from all over the world, and incense attracts immortals in the cave.

There are many barbershops, and this one is the most elegant: although unscathed, it is top-notch kung fu.

Wulong Temple couplets: three or five steps to travel all over the world, six or seven people with millions of soldiers.

After the Spring Festival, a village people sing operas and stage couplets: either for gentlemen and villains, or for talented people and beautiful women; Sometimes it is hilarious, sometimes it is earth-shattering, and it is empty in the blink of an eye.

On the bank of Hongqi Canal, a village couplet reads: Wild flowers send tourists up the mountain to avoid birds, and persimmon trees set in the sunset.

Another example is "willow shadows climb trees in the pool, and locust shadows are in power." "Diligence is a cash cow and frugality is a cornucopia." I chewed these couplets and couldn't bear to swallow them.

One year, I went to the Youth Cave by bike and stopped halfway. I saw a family member write: "Rich in things, outstanding in people." I think this is a genius move. When I later read this sentence in the preface to Wang Teng-ting, I couldn't help but say "Oh". So, you wait for me here. Later, I found that there were good couplets in Ming and Qing novels, which made them very happy.

Many century-old houses also have rich couplets, and they like to see old houses and ancient buildings because of reading couplets.

Later, I often read "casual books" and will see some humorous couplets. I was addicted to them and copied them. At that time I played with Xiaohui every day. Often one person says the first link, and the other says the second link. For example, I said, "The breeze helps the willows", and she replied, "I lose the plum blossoms when the moon falls." Then she will tell the story of this couplet. This is another story about "deliberation". Two girls, aged 17 and 18, enjoyed it.

Later, during the Spring Festival, I stopped writing couplets, and began to post bought couplets, and then posted them later. For me, I feel that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker.

During the Spring Festival in recent years, I found that there are several calligraphers in our village, some of whom are good at official script and some are good at regular script. On the first night of the first month, I secretly took my daughter to see it. The beauty of his handwriting, such as reading posts, is comfortable, and we can also think of the freedom of calligraphers when writing.

Suddenly, I feel that this kind of Spring Festival is the Spring Festival, which has a charm. I even think that my daughter's memories after several years are just "Mom took me to watch Spring Festival couplets"? No, I want to write!

20 14 in the first month, I made up my mind to write Spring Festival couplets myself. For this decision, I made a year's preparation, and began to practice official script every day on the fifteenth day of the first month, just waiting for the Spring Festival to show my talents. At the end of that year 1 1 month, our son was born and everyone was very happy. Because of confinement, I was the only one who didn't write Spring Festival couplets.

So writing Spring Festival couplets has become a thorn in my heart, and there are faint jokes from time to time, which makes me feel a little painful.

In the winter of 20 15, when my son turned one year old, I said I must write Spring Festival couplets by hand. At night, my children and my husband fell asleep. I spread paper and splashed ink and started my journey of writing Spring Festival couplets. I am very self-aware and follow the law of easy before difficult. The couplets I chose are "Spring Breeze, Spring Rain, Spring Festival, New Year, New Year" and "Peace in Four Seasons"

I was writing when my husband woke up. He was sleepy and said, "What time is it? Go to sleep. " When my son woke up, I quickly put down the wool quilt and went to milk him. My husband woke up twice, and I was still writing. He saw a thick stack of red paper on the table and said, enough, enough. Seeing that I didn't move, he said, alas, I can't pay attention to this god either. If you don't sleep at night, you can still put up couplets. He went back to sleep, and I'm still looking for memories and the smell of that year.

After writing couplets all night, I realized that writing couplets well is very different from writing couplets well. If one joint fails, it will be scrapped. The word "spring" in this painting is inferior to the word "rain" in that painting. This shows the importance of teamwork.

Finally, I chose three from the thick homework, and the rest were rolled up, tied and stuffed behind the sofa. The early husband asked, I remember you wrote a ruler with a thick handle. Why are there only three? Am I dreaming? I just laughed.

The difference between buying and writing, for me, lies in whether I can find the feeling of Chinese New Year. I think the taste of New Year is dyed from this Spring Festival couplets, telling myself that it is spring again.

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The author did not preach, but integrated the past into the couplet story. This writing is not only novel, but also wonderful.

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If the reader doesn't like it, you can move out your own loud name, and you can't stop the reader's disdain.

Reading articles also lies in reading rhythm and thinking. In the couplets, the author wrote "the flavor of the year", but it was not conventional, with some small feelings and a philosophical aftertaste.

If you put your heart into it, you can do it well.

This essay did not deliberately mention the word "going home for the New Year", but it did bring us into the atmosphere of home and the New Year. It is not the family that "goes back", but the past "year".

Very good.

-Love Non-trace Review

Shen, whose pen name is Liu, was born in Kaiyuan District, Linzhou City in the 1970s and now lives in Guiyuan. Member of Linzhou Writers Association, member of Linzhou Poetry Association. Freelancer. I like reading, writing, mountain climbing and badminton. His works are scattered in Anyang Evening News, Hongqi Canal, Lan Zhi Garden, Linzhou Party History and other media.