It's New Year's Eve again, and every year at this time, I always have to make a bowl of glue, tear off the old spring festival couplets that have already faded to gray and white from last year's remnants, and replace them with brand-new new spring festival couplets with gold characters on a red background. Doing this would mean the end of the past year and the beginning of a new one. Always put the new peach for the old, think of the ancients at that time is enough trouble, or modern people save energy, a few pieces of red paper even if it is the scene.
The Spring Festival is like the Spring Festival Gala, the status of the people in the heart is not as big as before, in the past years, paste the Spring Festival is definitely a big thing. And also absolutely must have rules, must be early in the morning of the first day to paste. Old rumors, who posted early, whose family's luck is good. So on the first day of the year, our neighbors have to get up early, when the sky is just dawn, already in the house smeared good paste, and then quickly run out to paste on. Sometimes when we see other people's homes are also pasted, we have to smile and speed up, in fact, may not be hoping that good luck really came, just have a competitive heart, right?
Spring Festival is necessary to run to stick, on the one hand, there are factors in this regard, on the other hand is because the northeast is too cold. When the climate, to be colder than now on more than ten degrees, the Spring Festival often reaches minus thirty-five six degrees, if you run a little slower, did not wait until the door, the paste on the Spring Festival is frozen into a hard block, but also have to take into the house, in the fire on the grill for a while to do.
When the Spring Festival is very careful, not only the time, but also the scene, as long as it is a door, you have to paste. Bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, and sometimes even the door of the barn where the firewood is put, also have to put on a pair. This is not all, the wall should be raised to see the joy, the window should also be posted hanging sign, is a kind of paper-cutting, cut with some auspicious patterns, red and green in the wind, very nice. Fuzi is also as important as the Spring Festival auspicious objects, the main entrance of the word must be posted upside down, to take its harmonic "Fu to the."
Nowadays, all this red tape, has become more and more distant, symbolically affixed to the Spring Festival couplets, no longer have to wait until the first morning of the first day of the year, and do not have to scramble to be the first. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on the best of the best, and then you'll be able to get your hands on the best of the best.
This shows that the significance of spring scrolls is no longer as important as it used to be. With some of the traditional things, away from the modern life more and more far, people seem to think y, how can a Chinese New Year through the flavor of the year, is retro or innovative? All this is to be pondered.
When the old houses in the countryside were not demolished, we put all the doors and windows and all the objects in the east, west, and main houses of the yard with festive spring couplets, and it took a whole morning. The beams and partitions in the house and the back wall of other people's houses outside the front door were the same every year, with the former labeled "Raise your head and see joy" and the latter "Go out and see joy". Then, on the chicken nests and goat pens, "Six Animals Prospering", on the wells and tree trunks, "Infinite Springtime", on the courtyard walls, "Purple Blessing" and "Auspicious Celebration", and even on the walls of the courtyard, "Purple Blessing" and "Auspicious Celebration", and even on the walls of others' houses, the same thing is done every year. On the walls of the courtyard, it is "Purple Blessing" and "Joyous Celebration". Even the carts that take out the garbage have to be labeled with a couplet that reads "Out with the old, in with the new" or "Peace in all seasons".
At that time, all the Spring Festival couplets came from my father's hand; the vigorous brushwork summarized the year's hopes and expectations on a long square of red paper. Every day out and in the door, the head is "lucky star", on both sides is "smooth sailing year after year, all things go well step by step". Ordinary people's ordinary days, can live in peace and stability, smooth and smooth, and small progress, it is enough.
Wang Huo is based in the courtyard, facing the side of the courtyard door, labeled "Wang Qi Chong Tian". Thirty children at night, began to receive God, poured oil on the large carbon in a short time on the red, the sound of the old year's firecrackers, you wang me wang family wang, the atmosphere of the year, is to reach the real hot and heavy.
Hanging in the eaves of the head, is a sliver in the wind swish la la sound of colorful "big words". The "big word" is a kind of Spring Festival couplets, the paper is more than a foot, each paper a word, mostly for the four-word idiom. Since I was a little girl, I have always loved to read the "big words": "The year begins again. The earth returns to spring. Birdsong and flowers. All things are renewed. The wind and rain are favorable. People live long and prosper. Self-reliance. The wealth of the people is abundant. Poetry in general smooth, read read read, read out the infinite reverie and beautiful; read read read, read childhood into the youth, read the youth into the adult.
To this day, I still remember those big and small "Fu" characters and "Spring" characters pasted in the courtyard of my old house. The "spring" is the growth and hope, "blessing" is the smooth and as expected, can have and cherish these two words of the people, life, will be a happy life. The words posted on the door of the courtyard were "Early flowers blossom in the sunny courtyard, hardworking people have many happy events". The father of the Spring Festival, also not forget to use the red paper and black characters to warn us, down-to-earth and hard-working, is to have a happy life guarantee.
I heard that one year, uncle's uncle, because life is always difficult to improve, the Spring Festival, wrote an original seven-word couplet posted at home, the first line is "every year to receive the God of the year poor", the second line is "this year not to receive the line is not possible", the most wonderful is that the three words of the banner --- "the", the "the", the "the", the "the" and the "the". The best part is the three words in the banner - "Ask the God of Wealth".
The years have passed, the days of the Spring Festival, who can say, is not clear to the eye.
Nowadays, living in a tall building, the door, only one, the Spring Festival couplets, also only need to post a picture. What do you want to put on it? Just paste "four seasons of the year, spring is always there, thousands of flowers bloom forever", do you think?
Into the threshold of Lunar New Year, the year, will be in the ice and snow in the wind break ground, sprouting green buds; the flavor of the year, like the water bubbles like a gurgle gurgle out, the more the more thick; especially after the Lunar New Year's Day, the flavor of the year is even more viscous rich ......
Walking in the city streets, but see the port gradually turned into a red sea: the big red lights, the big red lights, the big red lights, the big red flowers, the big red lights. Turned into a sea of red: red lanterns began to appear, units, residents hanging in front of the door, open-air market, street stalls selling; visible everywhere in the word of blessing, Xi character, door couplets, New Year's Eve paintings, auspicious ornaments objects, door stickers, street markets, a piece of a row; a variety of New Year's Eve stalls, food, snacks and wine stacks of rows of rows of boxes plated with gold, silver, red and green; firecracker stalls can be seen everywhere.
The firecrackers are a great way to get the word out, but they're also a great way to get the message across. ......
After the reforms and opening up, the policy of prosperity has made the land of China prosperous.
Being in the downtown area reminds me of the countryside of yesterday and the past. In the 1960s and 1970s, the countryside was far from being so prosperous and rich. The farmers were very happy for the New Year, but the material was extremely poor; the streets and alleys were full of laughter and songs, and even the ordinary chatting and greeting became joyful and joyful, the whole village was full of joy and happiness. However, folks can't help but have a few worries, heavy heart, despair, for this "poor excessive" bitter day to worry about. In order to celebrate the New Year, the farmers have to break their backs to work hard to prepare this poor holiday meal.
Under the arrangement of mom and dad, we have been busy cleaning up and making preparations for the festival for many days. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't want to be a part of it, but I want to be a part of it. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't want to be a part of it, but I want to be a part of it. When mom thoroughly cleaned the house health, and we together with the house walls ceiling with newspaper framed a new, and then steamed out a few pots of snow-white big reunion meat and potatoes; we also cleaned the yard, outside the yard, gathered neatly, clean; and then the water tank to pick up the full. The end of the year came as scheduled. Home and outside the home are cleaned up, to the waxing moon twenty-nine evening dark, I burn stove fire, mother in the cauldron boiled out of glue, my brother and I began to paste the Spring Festival couplets.
The Chinese New Year scrolls and the Chinese character "福字" are all bought by my father from the county, and they have black and gold characters on the big red paper. According to the traditional custom in the countryside, spring festival couplets, wedding invitations and lucky charms should be put up everywhere in the house and outside the house. The spring scrolls on the street door are the most important and should be posted first. My brother and I would brush glue on the door with a cooking straw broom, and one of us would make a gesture and the other would look at it to see if it was in the right place. It was unlucky if they were pasted crookedly, or if they were placed one high or one low! After carefully measuring the height and verticality of the left and right sides, the spring scrolls were formally pressed onto the door panels and pressed firmly into place. The content of the common is "smooth sailing every year good, everything is as good as step by step high", the horizontal inscription is "lucky stars shine brightly"; "happy to live in the treasure land of a thousand years of prosperity, blessed by the door of the family of ten thousand things to prosper," the horizontal inscription is "Happy to welcome the New Year"; "Heaven increases the number of years and people increase life, spring is full of Qiankun Fu Manchu door", the horizontal scroll is "spring is full of people" and so on. Paste the door is very grand and serious, the success or failure of this ceremony, simply symbolizes, determines the whole family a year of ` good luck, peace and happiness.
Paste good, standing in front of the door to see, immediately, the red spring couplets all of a sudden the flavor of the year, the New Year's atmosphere rendered out. The heart immediately increased a few points of joy. Paste a good street door and then paste the door, paste the door of the aisle, the door of the outhouse, the door of the east and west rooms. The content is similar, are good luck, peace and prosperity, happy and happy class.
Street outside the door, across the wall of other people's homes to be posted on the "out of the door to see happy" "out of the door auspicious"; if the door outside the trees or other people's trees, as well as roadside poles, should be posted "out of the door to see happy" or "out of the door auspicious". If there are trees outside the door or other people's trees, as well as on the poles along the roadside, you should put up "Going out to see happiness" or "Going out for good luck"; on the wall of the courtyard opposite to the main door of the house, you should put up "Going out to see happiness"; and on the grain hoard inside and outside the courtyard, you should put up couplets, or at least the Chinese character for blessings or a single post, such as " Good harvests", "full of grain and rice", "year after year"; the trunks of fruit trees in the yard should be labeled with "good harvests" or "peace and good luck"; chickens and chickens should be labeled with "good harvests" or "peace and good luck". Peace and good luck"; chicken nests, duck houses, rabbit hutches, stick a "golden chicken singing in spring" or "chicken and duck cage full of" "Jade rabbit presents good luck"; pigpen wall should be affixed with "Fertile pigs" or "six animals prosper"; the cart is created in the yard, it also wants to celebrate the New Year ah! Stick "good luck in and out" or "peace for the car people"; outside the big pickle jar, stick "food is plentiful"; inside and outside the outhouse, also stick "look up and see joy", "good health", "good health", "good health", "good health", "good health", "good health", "good health", "good health", "good health". " "Taikang Life" and other auspicious post ...... anyway, everywhere to stick, things, things, people, everyone together with the joy of the New Year, welcome the New Year, show happiness!
Indoor beams do not stick couplets, but to stick "head up to see the happy" or "" good luck "banner; the house of the wall to stick a large square post Fukuji, and the word towards the bottom, the meaning of the The walls on each side of the kang are decorated with large square posters with the heads facing downward, signifying "Fortune has arrived"! On the walls on both sides of the kang, in addition to the big fat doll New Year's paintings, couplets should be pasted next to the paintings; inside and outside the door of each room, smaller door couplets should be pasted, or a few single postings, such as "look up and see joy", "happy as you wish", "good food and good clothes", "good luck", "good fortune", and "good luck" banners should be pasted on the walls of each room. "Good food and clothing", etc., the top of the single post should be posted a word of blessing; courtyard pressure wells should be posted on the "well auspicious" "well water source" vertical post; water tanks on the sticker "water flow", "feng shui treasure"; stone mill edge should be posted "food abundance"; noodle tanks, basins, vegetable jars, pots and pans should be posted with a small Chinese character of good fortune or a single post; closet, chests, The wardrobe, chests, cupboards and cabinets should also be labeled with the word "福字" or "单帖". Anyway, all the items outside the home should be stained with a little red, together with the New Year, red symbolizes the joy, luck, good luck, happiness.
And also enshrine the God of the stove, the God of the stove picture pasted on the wall behind the pots and pans, and on both sides of the couplet "good words in heaven, the lower world to ensure peace," to the God of the stove to the sky when the narrative of the good words, to ensure that the next year, food and clothing.
On the night of New Year's Eve, the family tree is pasted on the wall of the house, dedicated to the ancestors of the family, and couplets are also pasted on both sides of the family tree, "full of grandchildren and prosperous people" or "rich clothes and food, wealth and honor". Waiting for the midnight of New Year's Eve, incense, fruit plate, rice, snacks for the ancestors, praying for the ancestors to take care of the blessing, the family peace and good luck, wealth and prosperity.
Indoors, both sides of the window should also be pasted couplets and banners, and the top of the left and right couplets should also be pasted a small fortune. Wooden lattice windows should be pasted on the paper-cut panels, the content is also even (lotus seed) year auspicious, yearly surplus (fish), peace and good luck, and so on. All the postings and couplets are in big red color!
The Chinese New Year couplets are filled with the peaceful and joyful atmosphere of the festival. The red couplets, which hold people's prayers and hopes for the new year, are full of simple visions of the townspeople in pursuit of wealth, good fortune and well-being. They are eagerly looking forward to a good harvest in the coming year, and can eat, wear well, and live a stable life.
By New Year's Eve, the red door pairs were in place. Red-hot couplets, lucky words and wedding invitations are plastered all over the front and back corners of houses, tree trunks and utility poles. The streets and alleys have been decorated and rendered in red, igniting an atmosphere of joy and happiness and a festive mood of celebration and joy. The small village is immersed in a strong flavor of the New Year. A few days, there have been children from time to time to point firecrackers, the countryside has been some aromatic smoky firecracker gunpowder smell ......
But, the most red, the most grand, the most sacred ceremony of the New Year, is to wait until the first day of the New Year at 00:00:00, a shocking firecrackers explode as a primer, a precursor to the new year will be belatedly. The new year will only come late! Everything is ready, all we need is an east wind. Everything is ready, let us heart quietly cheering, looking forward to the Spring Festival - the official debut of the big year!
When I was a child in my hometown, as long as there is a door to stick on the place, even the bellows, stove, water tank, bed, pigsty, chicken nests, farm equipment should be pasted on the bright red Spring Festival couplets, but the content of these places is basically fixed, such as the bellows on the sticker is the "wind sound like thunder", the stove sticker " Aroma" on the stove, "endless flow" on the water tank, "good health" on the head of the bed, and "fat pigs" on the pigsty. At that time, the most enjoyable part of the festival was when the family took turns writing Chinese New Year couplets around a long table. In order to be able to hold a brush, they loved to take brush lessons, and already in the waxing moon, they started to look for a place to practice, either on a rock, on a newspaper board, or in the air. The content of the couplet is a family talk, you a word I think out, as to whether the format is in line with the symmetry of the oblique, but did not pay attention to, as long as it is the content of the happy and auspicious on the line.
My impression, the sticker is often close to the evening, the weather is very cold, a person end of the paste, a person with a broom and spring scrolls, door to door to put a piece of or handsome or ugly, or big or small, or positive or oblique, or long or short, the font of the spring scrolls in the position of the long thought. Then both of them rubbed their little hands, which were already red and black with the color of the couplets and were a bit painful from the cold, and stood at a distance to see if the couplets were properly pasted, and if they were not good enough, they would take them down and re-post them. After they were all posted, they would always call their family members to comment on the content of each couplet. When a family sees a yard full of red-hot couplets with good visions for the future, they are always very happy, very happy.
At that time, there is a habit, that is, after the posting of spring couplets early the next morning to call friends from house to house to see, to see whose family's spring couplets written word or content is good. If you have written your own, you must let your friends into the yard to write their own Spring Festival in front of the "appreciate". At that time, we were quite good at talking. If the words were not well written, we would say that the content was well written; if the content was not good, we would say that the words were well written, which was good anyway. We also know that this is not the truth, but it does not affect our happiness at all.
After graduating from college and going to the city, especially after settling down in the city, the Spring Festival is still sticking Spring Festival couplets. But this time the spring festival, compared to my spring festival in my hometown glossy a lot, here the spring festival is not written with ink, is to use the gold dust, gold glitter. They are not written with ink, but with gold dust, shining with gold. They are also not written with their own pens, but printed by machines, and they look very neat and clean, and the fonts are in Benben's, which is much better than the ones we have written. Even the way to paste the Spring Festival couplets is also different, do not need to beat the paste, only need to use transparent tape a sticky. After posting the spring scrolls, your hands won't be stained red and black. I feel that the city New Year's Eve is better than the countryside, such as sticking the spring festival.
When my kids got a little older, I asked them to go around the neighborhood and the streets on the first day of the new year to see which ones had the best couplets. The child happily accepted the task and took a small notebook, saying that he could write down the good ones when he saw them. At first, the child's interest was still very high, wrote down a few couplets, and after wandering around for half an hour, the child was reluctant to wander around and said he wanted to go home. I said, "Why? Aren't we going to enjoy the spring couplets?" The child said, "Dad, you're really close to me. The child said, "Dad, you're really myopic, don't you see that every family's are almost the same? The content is almost the same, the font is almost the same, they are all printed, it's meaningless. Then the child went home without looking back. I stood there and looked around for a while, and it was really like that, so I also resentfully followed home. I felt as if I owed it to my child, and never gave him such a task again. The first time I saw this, I was able to see the color of the light, and I was able to see the color of the light.
This year's Spring Festival is here, and it is time to put up the Spring Festival couplets, I said to my daughter, who is already a senior in high school, this year's Spring Festival couplets how to get ah? The child said, you go to the street to buy a pay or to the bank business hall to take a pair of not on the line, anyway, is a form. I said that it does not feel interesting, let's get an interesting how? The child asked what creativity. I know that the child has also taken calligraphy lessons, said we write our own. The child asked who will write ah? I said I, your mom, and you ah, our home is a door, the content of our own ideas. The child timidly asked, can I do it? I said why can not ah, at least will not write the wrong word it, as long as the writing is meaningful, as long as we are happy on the line. My proposal was approved by her mom, and the child saw us all agree, so he also said to try it.
I found the dusty quill and red paper, and cut it out neatly, laying it on the dining room table. There was no ink in the house, and my daughter flew to the stationery store and bought it back. Then, our family of three began to scramble to come up with the content, and finally her mother came up with the sentence, called "dragon year dragon son living in the dragon," the daughter asked what to say ah? Mom said, because your father was born in the year of the dragon, the dragon, that is, the dragon child, now we live in Shilong District, so called "dragon year dragon child living in the dragon". My daughter came up with the next couplet, which was "Phoenix born Phoenix daughter flying Phoenix nest". I asked the child what the meaning of this is. She said, mom belongs to the chicken, the chicken is the phoenix, I am her daughter, that is, phoenix born phoenix daughter, next year I have to take the college entrance exams, I hope to be successful in the exams, go out and leave the embrace of mom and dad to start their own lives, is not flying out of the phoenix nest it, so it is called "phoenix born phoenix daughter fly phoenix nest". I heard here busy said reasonable, but also neat, then I put together a banner, it is called "all the best" it.
The content came out right, the following is written. Her mom wrote the first line, and I wrote the second line. The daughter has never written in front of us in brushstrokes, today a little shy, but in the end, but still write out the crossword. Her mother and I carefully scrutinized the child's writing, a bit like the child herself dignified and beautiful, and finally said, well, good. My daughter was a little nervous when we scrutinized her handwriting, but when she saw that our evaluation was quite good, she said proudly that there was at least not a single typo in her handwriting. As soon as my daughter's words left her mouth, the three of us couldn't help but laugh out loud. Finally, my daughter said, there must be a door, I'll do it. Said solemnly put a four-square piece of red paper according to the diagonal folded, diagonally written a big "Fu". Her mother and I looked at the word "Fu" and said happily, "Our family's blessings are brought by our children, how blessed we are". After that, there was another burst of laughter.
After the Chinese New Year scrolls were dried, the three of us put them on the door of our house. When my daughter was putting up the character "福", she specifically put the big "福" character upside down, saying that this is called "福到我们家了". Her mother and I were busy saying that the child knew quite a lot! Daughter heard us praise, quickly made a face at us, the first into the "blessed".
After the Chinese New Year was over, our family started a happy Chinese New Year.
I don't know why, during the Spring Festival, when I walked in the rural streets, looking at the households posted a beautifully printed Spring Festival couplets, always feel a kind of modern atmosphere, the flavor of the New Year is more and more distant and more and more faint. Then it will recall the childhood in the rural areas on New Year's Eve sticker scene, the strong taste of the New Year, everything is so warm and so relaxed ......
It was the early 1970s, Luzhong area of the farmers have not yet completely solve the problem of food and clothing, for the hard work of a year of the farmers, New Year's Eve is a major event in the life of the people. Because it not only heralds the improvement of life, but also reflects the joy of harvest, family reunion and happiness. Naturally, on the eve of the Spring Festival sticker is the rural New Year's Eve a particularly bright scenery, but also to welcome the New Year's one of the highlights.
As the saying goes: "twenty-eight, paste flowers", from this day onwards, to the 30th of Lunar New Year paste Spring Festival couplets has become one of the important matters of the farmers. (Of course, when someone died in the family is not posted, because eat "filial piety" sake, in our place to three years before posting.) At that time, the spring scrolls were all hand-written, unlike today's instant prints, and were decorated with high-quality and chic contents. I remember that my uncle was a famous calligrapher in the village, and his brushwork was very well received by everyone, because of which almost everyone in the village took red paper to find my uncle to write the Spring Festival couplets.
To this day, I still remember clearly, every year to Lunar New Year 25, 6, some of the neighbors with large red paper, some with a brush with ink, they came to uncle's house in twos and threes, asked him to write spring couplets to pray for the new year to be able to wind and rain, family happiness. Every time, over seventy years old uncle will put on the glasses, stroking long beard, in the crowd, with a prepared pen, ink, paper and ink stone and knife, wooden ruler, carefully cut the paper, do the prerequisite preparatory work. I stood on the side of the rules to do some press paper, drying service work. Surrounded by folks, uncle hand holding a brush, qi dantian, dipped in thick ink, hanging wrist pen in the cut red paper written on the New Year's blessings. In a short while, a piece of ink-scented such as "the sky increases the years and people increase life, spring is full of Qiankun blessings full of doors", "good things spread thousands of years, good books broadcast benefit nine states", "prosperous business through the four seas, rich and prosperous up to the three rivers The spring couplets of "Spring Breeze and Willow" and "Six Hundred Million God's States are full of Shun Yao" were like a red haze spreading all over the whole indoor and outdoor area of the yard. ...... At this time, Uncle took a short break, like a general who had made a great achievement, stroked his long beard and paced back and forth. Back and forth pacing eight steps, inspecting the results of their own writing, sometimes nodding his head to express satisfaction, sometimes shaking his head with emotion ......
Posting Spring Festival couplets is our happiest thing, the morning of New Year's Eve, I will get up early, as happy as a bird jumping, carrying my mother boiled good paste, together with my older brother and sister. I would get up early on the morning of New Year's Day, like a happy little bird jumping up and down, carrying my mother's boiled paste, and together with my older siblings, I would take the written couplets and plan to post them one by one at each doorway....... Facing the courtyard wall in front of the main doorway, we would put up a big banner of "Fortune and Jinyinbao", and on the wheelbarrow we would put up the banner of "Peaceful entry and exit ", on the grain hoard, we put up "Good harvest", in the livestock house, we put up "Prosperity of six animals", and even on the walls and trees in the courtyard, we put up "Spring returns to the earth", "Spring is in the air" and "Spring is in the air". Even the walls and trees in the courtyard were labeled with "Spring returns to the earth" and "Spring is full of light". In a short time, the spring scrolls will all be posted, looking at the courtyard, the door on the flowers and greenery renewed is very good, we will talk and laugh, each other clusters, running between the door of each house, I do not know the sky high and thick comment on whose family's spring scrolls look good, that kind of pleasant mood is still thinking of echoing in the eyes of the ...... is ah, the rural Spring Festival, it is! In front of the red Spring Festival couplets, overflowing with festive joy.
However, with the improvement of the economy, people's pace of life accelerated, now write the Spring Festival has become less and less, replaced by a street full of hanging beautifully printed Spring Festival, in the hot selling sound, I will always think of my childhood uncle wrote the Spring Festival scene, and paste the Spring Festival in which the fun of the good memories make me unforgettable.