"The breeze is warm and empty, the rain is fragrant, and the orioles sing first under the winter jasmine; Armed with peace and prosperity, full of dreams, happy in Changle Road. " This pair of Spring Festival couplets of Wudingmen Year of the Ox, with both light and atmosphere, was inscribed by Shaanxi Yang Huaisheng and written by Li Xiao, Chairman of Jiangsu Bookstore and Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Calligraphers Association. There is Bailuzhou Park in Wudingmen, and Wudingmen Park built along the city wall outside. The gate is adjacent to Qinhuai River, and the scenery is very beautiful. During the Spring Festival holiday, countless citizens and tourists stopped to enjoy the Red Spring Festival couplets.
"Hanging Spring Festival couplets at the gate of the city brings a sense of ceremony to the city and increases the happy and peaceful atmosphere of the Spring Festival." Li Xiao, a calligrapher who participated in the activity of "Hanging Spring Festival couplets at the city gate for six times in a row", said.
Spring Festival couplets are hung at the gate of the city, and the city has a sense of ceremony for the New Year.
Li Jiao has participated in the activity of "Opening Nanjing with Spring Festival couplets at Chengmen" for six times. His carefully written Spring Festival couplets are hung on the gates of Yijiangmen, Yifengmen and Wudingmen in Nanjing.
Li Xiao, Dean of Jiangsu Bookstore and Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Bookstore Association.
Li Xiao said that the Spring Festival couplets themselves represent auspiciousness and happiness, and there was the earliest saying of exorcism. "The action of hanging Spring Festival couplets at the gate of Nanjing 12 is a blessing to the whole city and Nanjing citizens. I wish everyone peace, health, peace and prosperity in this new year. "
During the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, Nanjing received 4.58 million tourists, and Wudingmen, which is close to Confucius Temple, Bailuzhou Park and Zhanyuan, is also one of the popular tourist destinations. "It's really meaningful to hang Spring Festival couplets at the city gate," Li Xiao said. It brings a festive feeling to the citizens and tourists passing by or visiting, enhances the taste of the New Year that the people of China have loved since ancient times, and brings a happy and peaceful atmosphere.
After six years' participation in hanging Spring Festival couplets at the city gate, Li Xiao once tasted the significance of Spring Festival couplets to Nanjing and Nanjing citizens. He said: "It doesn't seem to be a big deal to hang Spring Festival couplets, but just like a family, it is an essential ceremony to stick Spring Festival couplets and send blessings every year. With the ceremony, this year is full of flavor. If the family doesn't even post Spring Festival couplets, it will be cold and clear. " Li Xiao said that the folk custom of posting Spring Festival couplets is actually rooted in people's sense of ceremony for the Spring Festival. With a sense of ceremony, people can be practical, peaceful and happy. "This is what folklore means to everyone."
His own Spring Festival couplets are hung on the city gate to accompany the citizens through one Spring Festival after another. This is a very precious experience for Li Jiao, and it is also the reason why he is willing to write and write with heart every year.
"Calligraphy creation will be influenced by couplets." Li Xiao, who loved writing and watching Spring Festival couplets since childhood, spoke highly of this year's selection of Wudingmen: "The words' wind, rain, spring, warbler and singing' in the first couplet bring a light, warm and grounded feeling, while the martial arts in the second couplet can make the country prosperous and make dreams come true, which is very atmospheric. Influenced by couplets, Li Xiao is always happy when writing. He chose the combination of running script and regular script: using regular script to express the "stable" part of the couplet, and adding some running scripts, he wrote a smart and light couplet. Under this ingenious thinking, he carefully wrote it three times before he got the steady and smooth couplet hanging in Wudingmen.
High-standard "Rain Mountain Question" series activities to promote talents
Jiangsu Bookstore in Li Xiao plays a leading role in calligraphy creation in the province, and Li Xiao and his team maintain the same attitude of striving for perfection. The academic nomination exhibition of young and middle-aged calligraphers in Jiangsu Bookstore, which was carefully planned by Bookstore last year, received a good response in the national calligraphy circle.
The series of activities of "Yushan Wen" aims to consult sages, learn calligraphy skills from each other and promote talents. * * * Calligraphy styles include cursive script, running script, regular script, seal script, official script and seal cutting, and each style is nominated by 20-30 young and middle-aged calligraphers under the age of 55 in the province. Its activities include: first, holding an exhibition of calligraphy works by professionals introduced from Jiangsu Bookstore, exhibiting nearly 50 new works by Guo Lieping, Zheng Chang 'an and Yun Junfeng; The second is the academic nomination exhibition of young and middle-aged calligraphers in Jiangsu Bookstore (cursive script), with 22 works; The third is the academic nomination exhibition of young and middle-aged calligraphers (running scripts) in Jiangsu Bookstore, with 29 works on display. In terms of publicity, * * * completed more than 60 special tweets on WeChat, with a reading volume of more than 400,000 people, published 3 collections of works, and promoted talents 100 people.
Li Xiao mentioned that it was called "Rain Mountain Question" because every nominated calligrapher would go to Yu Qiu to visit Lin Sanzhi's head and watch the works of sages. Participating in the nomination exhibition is also a challenge for every calligrapher: the bookstore not only requires all works to be created recently, but also has strict requirements on each handed-in work from word method, technique to composition. In this process, the works submitted by calligraphers are modified or even rewritten from time to time. A dozen works submitted by a calligrapher were all rewritten. Participating in this activity has made many young and middle-aged calligraphers understand what is academic and what is rigorous. Li Xiao said: "Only in this way can activities be valuable to calligraphers' creation, lead the whole society's calligraphy creation atmosphere, and play the role of professional creative units. "
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Shanxi writers visited Wudingmen on 20 18.
The winner of Wudingmen is Yang Huaisheng, a 63-year-old couplet lover from Shanxi. "Nanjing Chengmen hangs Spring Festival couplets, which has great influence in the country and is a good activity." Yang Huaisheng told reporters that he started to contribute from the first session. When Kloc came to Nanjing in 20/0/8, he specially visited Wudingmen, Yijiangmen and other city gates to deepen his feelings for Nanjing City Gate and provide convenience for writing couplets in the future.
Yang Huaisheng comes from Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, and has been in contact with couplets for 267 years. After 2000, there were more couplets and poetry competitions in China, so he took part in the competition and won more than 400 awards so far.
"Wudingmen's couplets were written in only one or two days." He said that "Spring Festival couplets should write happiness and blessings", and his own couplets combined the scene of "warm wind" in spring with the harmonious atmosphere in the countryside. The first couplet "Warm wind, fragrant rain, spring flowers sing first" is not only about the Spring Festival, but also about the current harmonious situation of the country. The second couplet reads "Armed security, rich dreams, happiness in Changle Road". He said.
Opinions of judges
Zhou Tonggan: Wuding gate selection method is clear and smooth, and the confrontation is neat.
"The breeze is warm and empty, the rain is fragrant, and the orioles sing first under the winter jasmine; Armed with peace and prosperity, full of dreams, happy in Changle Road. " In the view of Zhou Tonggan, vice chairman of Jiangsu Chinese Culture Promotion Association and former vice chairman of Jiangsu Writers Association, this pair of Wudingmen is both easy to understand and stable.
Zhou Tonggan said that unlike some couplets, which use too many allusions, they are difficult to understand and obscure. The characteristics of this couplet are that the language is easy to understand and easy to read. "The upper part is warm and windy, the rain is fragrant, and the antithesis is neat and exquisite. In the second half of the armed forces, the dream is closely related to the topic of' Wudingmen'. "
He specifically mentioned the description that "happiness blooms early in Changle Road". "Wudingmen is located in the middle of Changle Road. From Wudingmen, you can go to Dongshuiguan, jiqingmen and Zhonghua Gate. Although Wudingmen was built in the Republic of China, the Ming City Wall in Nanjing is a valuable historical heritage. This description of Changle Road, which is full of happy characters, incidentally describes the perspective of standing on the Nanjing City Wall and highlights the majestic momentum of the Nanjing City Wall. "