It's New Year's Eve again. Every year at this time, I always put on a bowl of paste, tear off the old Spring Festival couplets that have faded to gray last year and replace them with new ones with gold characters on a red background. Doing this well means the end of the past year, and the new year is about to begin. Always changing new peaches for old ones, considering that the ancients were troublesome enough at that time, or modern people saved energy, a few pieces of red paper would be appropriate.
Spring Festival couplets are like the Spring Festival Gala, and their status in people's minds is much worse than before. In the past years, posting Spring Festival couplets was definitely a big event. Moreover, there must be rules, and it must be posted in the early morning of the first day. It is an old rumor that whoever posts early will have good luck. As a result, every day on the first day of junior high school, our neighbors have to get up early. When it is just dawn, they have already smeared the paste in the house and then quickly ran out to paste it. Sometimes when we see other people's homes posting, we have to smile and speed up. In fact, we don't necessarily hope that good luck will really come, but we just have a competitive heart.
Spring Festival couplets must be posted on the run. On the one hand, there are the above factors, on the other hand, it is because the northeast is too cold. In those days, the climate was more than ten degrees colder than it is now, and it often reached MINUS 356 degrees during the Spring Festival. If you run slowly and don't wait for the door, the paste on the Spring Festival couplets will freeze into lumps, and you have to bring it into the house now and bake it on the fire for a while.
In those days, Spring Festival couplets were very particular, not only timely, but also timely. As long as it was a door, it should be posted. Bedroom, living room, kitchen, and sometimes even the door of the warehouse where firewood is placed, a pair should be affixed. That's not to mention, there should be a look up on the wall and a sign on the window, which is a kind of paper-cut, with some auspicious patterns cut on it, flying in the wind in red and green, which looks good. The word "Fu" is also as important as the Spring Festival couplets. The word "Fu" at the gate must be posted upside down, and its homonym is "Fu is here."
Nowadays, all the red tape has gone further and further. Symbolically, Spring Festival couplets are posted, and there is no need to wait until the morning of the first day of the first year, and there is no need to rush. Especially for people living in the building, the hole in the building is narrow, and sometimes they come out to post Spring Festival couplets together, but they can't display them. One party will always be humble with a smile. You go first and I'll post them later.
It can be seen that the significance of Spring Festival couplets is no longer as important as before. With some traditional things getting farther and farther away from modern life, people seem to be thinking deeply. How can we make a Spring Festival have an annual flavor, whether it is retro or innovative? All this needs our consideration. Posting Spring Festival couplets 2
Posting Spring Festival couplets is a top priority for the Chinese New Year, and every household is never careless.
when the old houses in the countryside are not demolished, it takes us a whole morning to put up festive Spring Festival couplets on all the doors, windows and objects in the east, west and main rooms of the yard. The beams, partition fans in the house and the back walls of other people's homes outside the gate are the same every year. The former is labeled "Look up and see happiness" and the latter is labeled "See happiness when you go out". Then, paste "Six Livestock Flourish" on the chicken coop and sheepfold, "Infinite Spring" on the well and tree trunk, "Purple gas comes from the east" and "More than auspicious celebration" on the courtyard wall, and even the garbage trolleys should be pasted with a couplet, or "Get rid of the old and welcome the new" or "Peace in the Four Seasons".
At that time, all Spring Festival couplets were written by my father. The vigorous brushwork sums up the hopes and expectations of the year on a long square piece of red paper. The door that goes in and out every day is "Good luck is shining high" on the head and "Good luck every year, good luck every year" on both sides. Ordinary people's ordinary days, can live a stable, smooth, and small progress, it is enough.
Wanghuo is located in Dangyuan, on the opposite side of the courtyard gate, and it is labeled "Full of vigor". At thirty o'clock in the evening, I began to pick up the gods, and the big carbon poured with oil soon became red. In the sound of firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year, you flourished and I prospered, and the atmosphere of the new year was really in full swing.
hanging under the eaves are colorful "Chinese characters" that rattle in the wind. "Big characters" are a kind of Spring Festival couplets. The paper is more than one foot, and each paper has one word, mostly four-character idioms. Since I was a child, I like to read "big characters": the beginning of one yuan. Spring returns. Birds are singing and flowers are fragrant. Vientiane is updated. Good weather. People have a long life. Self-reliance. Rich in financial resources. Poetic fluency, when you read it, you read infinite reverie and beauty; When you read it, you read your childhood as a teenager and your teenager as an adult.
Up to now, I still remember the words "Fu" and "Chun" posted in my old house. "Spring" is growth and hope, and "happiness" is smoothness and wishful thinking. Those who can own and cherish these two words will have a happy life all their lives. What's posted on the gate of the courtyard is "the flowers bloom early in the sunny courtyard, and there are many happy events in hardworking families." During the Spring Festival, my father never forgot to warn us in red paper and black letters that being down-to-earth and diligent is the guarantee of a happy life.
I heard that one year, my uncle's uncle wrote an original seven-character couplet and posted it at home during the Spring Festival. The first couplet was "Be poor every year", and the second couplet was "Will it be okay if you don't get it this year", and the best thing was to cross-examine those three words-"Ask the God of Wealth".
Time flies, and the days in the Spring Festival couplets, who can say, are not clear.
nowadays, there is only one door for living in a tall building, and only one picture is needed for Spring Festival couplets. Post what? Just post "spring is always there all year round, and flowers bloom forever", don't you think? Prose 3
posted on Spring Festival couplets steps into the threshold of the twelfth lunar month. On the New Year's Day, it breaks ground in the wind and sprouts green buds in the ice and snow. The flavor of the year, like bubbling on the water surface, gurgles out and grows stronger and stronger; Especially after Laba Festival, the taste of the year is even more sticky ...
Walking in the streets of the city, we can see that the harbor city has gradually turned into a sea of red: red lanterns are constantly appearing, hung at the doors of units and residents, and sold in open-air markets and street stalls; Fuzi, Xizi, door couplets, New Year pictures and auspicious ornaments can be seen everywhere, which are posted on the doors and placed in the street market in rows. All kinds of stalls for new year's goods, food, snacks and wine are piled up in rows, and their boxes are gilded, scalded, silver, red and green; Firecracker stalls can be seen everywhere, and from time to time, a few hooks are set off to attract customers; Children on the street set off firecrackers randomly, covering their ears and screaming and jumping up and down ...
The policy of enriching the people after the reform and opening up has made China a prosperous place with a new look.
Being in a busy city reminds me of yesterday and the past countryside. In the sixties and seventies of last century, it was far from such a prosperous and rich year. Farmers can be happy in the New Year, but they are extremely poor in materials; Singing and laughing are constantly floating in the streets and alleys, and even ordinary chatting and greeting have become jubilant and happy, and the whole village is beaming. However, the villagers are inevitably worried, heavy and melancholy, worrying about this "excessive poverty" bitter life. For the New Year's Eve, it was the farmer who broke his waist and worked hard to prepare this miserable holiday meal.
under the arrangement of mom and dad, we have been busy cleaning up and preparing for the holidays for many days. Mom and sister, catch up with the country gathering to buy food and clothing. Dad also bought some from the city. When my mother thoroughly cleaned the house, she papered the ceiling of the house with newspapers with us, and then steamed out a few pots of white happy cakes; We also cleaned and collected the courtyard outside the courtyard neatly and cleanly; Then pick the water tank full. The end of the year has arrived as scheduled. At home and outside, everything was ready. When it was dark on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, I cooked the stove and my mother cooked the paste in the cauldron. My brother and I began to paste Spring Festival couplets.
Father bought Spring Festival couplets and Fuzi from the county by the way. There are black characters and gold characters on the big red paper. According to the traditional customs in rural areas, Spring Festival couplets, invitations and blessings should be posted everywhere at home and outside. The Spring Festival couplets on the street gate are the most important, so you should post them first. My brother and I used a cooking straw to brush the paste on the door, and one gestured and the other palm looked straight. It's unlucky if the sticker is crooked or one is high and one is low! Carefully measure the height and vertical left and right, and then formally press the Spring Festival couplets on the door panel to compact and stick them tightly. The common content is "smooth sailing every year, all the best in life", and the horizontal approval is "good luck"; "Happy to live in a treasure land for thousands of years, blessed to take care of everything at home", and the horizontal approval is "Welcome the Spring Festival"; "As time goes by, people live longer, and spring is full of kunfu", and the horizontal approval is "Spring is full of people" and so on. The door-to-door couplets are very grand and serious. The success or failure of this ceremony simply symbolizes and determines the good luck, peace and happiness of the whole family for one year.
When I posted it, I stood in front of the door and looked at it. Immediately, the red Spring Festival couplets suddenly rendered the flavor of the year and the atmosphere of the New Year. Heart immediately increased a few minutes of joy. Stick the street door and then stick the door, stick the door, the outer door, the east and west wing doors, etc. The content is similar, and they are all auspicious, safe and rich, and happy.
Outside the street gate, the wall of other people's houses opposite should be pasted with "Go out for happiness" and "Go out for good luck"; If there are your own trees or other people's trees outside the door, as well as roadside telephone poles, you should stick "Go out to see happiness" or "Go out auspicious"; On the wall of the courtyard opposite the main entrance of the house, "Go out to see happiness" should also be posted; Couplets should also be posted on the grain stores outside the courtyard, at least with a blessing or a single post, such as "Harvest of Grains", "Man Cang of Grain and Rice" and "More than a year"; Stick "Fruits and Fruits are Rich" or "Peace and Luck" on the trunk of fruit trees in the courtyard; Beside the chicken nest, duck house and rabbit nest, paste a "golden chicken singing spring" or "chicken and duck are full of cages" and "jade rabbit is auspicious"; The wall of the pigsty should be pasted with "full circle of fat pigs" or "prosperity of six animals"; The stroller was created in the yard, and it also wants to celebrate the New Year! Sticking "auspicious in and out" or "safe for drivers and passengers"; Outside the big pickle jar, "food is full" is posted; Inside and outside the toilet, you should also post auspicious posts such as "Looking up to see happiness" and "Taikang Life Insurance" ... Anyway, it should be posted everywhere. Things, events and people will join hands to celebrate the New Year, welcome the New Year and show happiness!
No couplets should be posted on indoor beams, but banners of "Look up and see happiness" or "Good luck" should be posted; On the walls of the house, there should be big square stickers with the word "Blessed" on the head, which means "Blessed"! On the walls on both sides of the heatable adobe sleeping platform, in addition to the big fat doll New Year pictures, couplets are also attached next to the pictures; On the inside and outside of the door of each room, smaller door couplets are also posted, or several single posts, such as "Looking up to see happiness", "Happy" and "Adequate food and clothing", should be posted above the single post; The pressure wells in the courtyard should be affixed with vertical stickers of "auspicious wells" and "abundant wells"; The water tank is affixed with "a long stream of fine water" and "a land of geomantic omen"; On the edge of the stone mill, it is necessary to post "full food"; Facepots, basins, vegetable jars, pots and pans should be affixed with small blessings or single stickers; Wardrobes, boxes, cabinets should also be affixed with a blessing or a single post. Anyway, everything at home and outside should be stained with red to celebrate the New Year together. Red symbolizes jubilation, good fortune, auspiciousness and happiness.
We should also offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God. We should paste the portrait of the Kitchen God on the back wall of the kitchen table, and put couplets on both sides, saying "Heaven speaks good things, and the lower world is safe", so that the Kitchen God can say good things in heaven and ensure adequate food and clothing in the coming year.
On New Year's Eve, a family tree is posted on the wall of one's own hall to honor one's ancestors. On both sides of the family tree, couplets are also posted, such as "Children and grandchildren are full, people are prosperous" or "Rich and prosperous". Waiting for the midnight of New Year's Eve, lighting incense, putting fruit bowls, meals and snacks to offer sacrifices to ancestors, praying for the care and blessing of ancestors, and making the whole family safe, auspicious and prosperous.
indoors, couplets and horizontal comments should also be posted on both sides of the window, and a small blessing should be posted on the top of the left and right couplets. Paper-cut frames should be posted on the wooden window, and the contents are also auspicious for the lotus seeds, the abundance of fish every year, peace and auspiciousness. All the posts and couplets are big red!
Spring Festival couplets are filled with festive peace and joy. The red couplets are filled with people's wishes and hopes for the new year, and are full of the simple vision of the villagers' pursuit of prosperity, good fortune and well-being. The villagers are eagerly looking forward to a good harvest in the coming year, and they can eat, dress and live a stable and good life.
By the New Year's Eve, every household's red doors and couples are in place. The prosperous couplets, blessings and invitations are posted all over the corner, trunk and telephone pole in front of and behind the house. Streets and alleys have been decorated and rendered by red, which has ignited a happy atmosphere and festive mood. The small village is immersed in the thick flavor of the year. In the past few days, children have set off firecrackers from time to time, and the countryside has already smelled of some fragrant firecrackers ... < P > However, the most prosperous, grand and sacred ceremony of the New Year is to wait until :: on the first day of the New Year, when a firecracker explodes, as an introduction and a leader, the New Year will come late! Everything is ready except the east wind. Everything is ready, let's cheer quietly and look forward to the official debut of the Spring Festival-New Year! Posting Spring Festival couplets 4
Posting Spring Festival couplets, also called couplets among the people here, is the custom of every China people for the New Year. No matter how rich or poor their family is, no matter how deep their culture is, they should turn their beautiful dreams for the coming year into cadence antithetical sentences and post them on their doorposts and doors.
When I was a child, I put up red Spring Festival couplets wherever there was a door, even the bellows, stove, water tank, bedside, pigsty, chicken coop and farm tools, but the contents of these places were basically fixed, such as "The wind thundered" on the bellows, "The fragrance smelled" on the stove, and "The water tank kept flowing". At that time, the happiest thing was that the family took turns writing Spring Festival couplets around the long table. In order to be able to pick up the brush, everyone liked to take brush lessons at that time. When the twelfth lunar month came, they began to find places to practice, either on stones, on newspaper boards or in the air. The contents of the couplets are all thought up by a family, holding each other's words. As for whether the format is symmetrical, there is no attention, as long as it is festive and auspicious.
In my impression, Spring Festival couplets are often posted near the evening, and the weather is very cold. One person holds the paste and the other person holds the broom and the Spring Festival couplets, and sticks the spring festival couplets in the positions that have been thought of for a long time, whether handsome or ugly, big or small, positive or oblique, long or short. Then both of them rubbed their small hands, which had been stained red and smeared by the Spring Festival couplets, and were a little sore with cold. They stood at a distance to see if the stickers were correct. If not, they took them off and pasted them again. When all the couplets are posted, I will always ask my family to comment on the contents of each couplet. The family is always very happy when they see that the courtyard is full of prosperous couplets with a bright future.
At that time, there was another habit, that is, early in the morning the day after posting Spring Festival couplets, friends and relatives were called to go door to door to see whose Spring Festival couplets were written with good handwriting or good content. If you have written your own, you must also let your partners enter the courtyard to "appreciate" the Spring Festival couplets you wrote. At that time, we were all good at talking. If the handwriting was not good-looking, we said the content was good. If the content is not good, say that the handwriting is good, anyway, it is good. We also know that this is not true, but it doesn't affect our happiness at all.
After graduating from college, I went to town, especially after I settled down in the city. Spring Festival is still a Spring Festival couplets. However, the Spring Festival couplets at this time are much brighter than those in my hometown. The Spring Festival couplets here are not written in ink, but in gold powder and glittering. I didn't write it myself, but it was printed by machine. It looked neat and clean, and the font was in my notebook, which was much better than what we wrote.