Cold humorous couplets in rural Spring Festival couplets

Spring leaves in the storm; With the snow, it came back. As the Spring Festival approaches, every household is preparing for the Spring Festival couplets. Most of the Spring Festival couplets are bought now, and many of the benefits in the original Spring Festival couplets have disappeared.

It was the 1970s, poor. However, the embarrassing years have not killed people's enthusiasm for life, and the villagers' cold humor can be seen in the Spring Festival couplets posted on the Spring Festival. At that time, everyone regarded writing Spring Festival couplets as a random creation to express their true feelings about life. Now I list three Spring Festival couplets from memory, and miss that unforgettable time by the way.

Hot water as wine,

Abundant food for the New Year.

Banner: What a nice day!

This is a couplet posted by a family in a neighboring village for the New Year. At that time, farmers could not eat white flour during the Spring Festival, but only red grain (sorghum flour). You can't afford white wine, so you can only use hot water instead. You have to ask, you can't even afford hot tea? I really can't afford it. My hometown is the northern countryside. I don't produce tea. I have to buy it if I want, but I still can't afford it. It's hard to celebrate the New Year, but the words used in the couplets are "lively" and "prosperous", and the banner is "what a good day". Obviously, it is mocking the era of extreme material shortage, but it does not show traces. Some people say that poetry is among the people. In my opinion, humor is more popular!

Ten debts paid off nine,

A full stomach is often empty.

Banner: See you next year.

This is a couplet posted on the door by an old man who tells jokes during the Spring Festival in our village. He loves reading ancient books, is knowledgeable and often tells us stories. However, because of his love of gambling, his already tense days are even more tense, and he is inevitably heavily in debt. "Ten debts have been paid back to nine", and of course there is still one debt outstanding; "A full stomach is often empty", but a knowledge stomach is often not full. Fortunately, he is optimistic and hopeful about next year. He read the banner: See you next year. This is a self-deprecating couplet, and its cold humor makes people want to laugh but can't.

Love the party, patriotism and hometown,

Fire prevention, theft prevention and cadre prevention.

This is a pair of Spring Festival couplets I heard in the countryside of a neighboring county. At that time, it was not only poor, but also apportioned a lot, so the people complained bitterly about rural cadres to apportion. Saying that writing Spring Festival couplets is against the rules? However, he "loves the party, patriotism and hometown", saying that he is a law-abiding person, and he "guards against fire and theft against cadres" (juxtaposing cadres with fire and theft means that the harm is too great and must be prevented). People have to admire the wit of farmers. Unfortunately, I forgot this banner of Spring Festival couplets because I heard it. Must be a humorous banner!