Post Spring Festival couplets prose

Posting Spring Festival couplets, also called couplets among the people here, is a custom for every Chinese to celebrate the New Year. Regardless of their family background, rich or poor, and regardless of their cultural background, they must turn their beautiful longing for the coming year into melody. The couplets are posted on the lintel and door side of your home.

When I was young, in my hometown, bright red Spring Festival couplets were affixed wherever there was a door. Even bellows, stoves, water tanks, bedsides, pig houses, chicken coops, and farm tools had to be affixed with bright red Spring Festival couplets. , but the contents of these places are basically fixed. For example, the bellows is posted with "the sound of wind is like thunder", the stove is posted with "smells of fragrance", the water tank is posted with "continuous flow", the bedside is posted with "good health", and the pig house is posted with "good health". Post "The pen is full of fat pigs" and so on. At that time, the happiest thing was when the family gathered around the long table and took turns writing Spring Festival couplets. In order to be able to pick up a calligraphy brush, I liked to take calligraphy classes at that time. It was already the twelfth lunar month, so I started to find places to practice, either on rocks, newspaper boards, or in the air. The contents of the couplets were all thought up by the whole family, talking about each other. As for whether the format conforms to oblique and symmetrical, I didn't pay much attention to it, as long as it is festive and auspicious content.

In my impression, Spring Festival couplets are often posted in the evening, when the weather is very cold. One person is holding paste, and the other is holding a broom and Spring Festival couplets, going from door to door to put up a picture of something handsome or ugly. , big or small, straight or oblique, long or short, the Spring Festival couplets in different fonts are pasted on the positions that have been thought of. Then both of them rubbed their little hands, which had been stained red and blackened by the Spring Festival couplets, and were a little sore from the cold. They stood at a distance to see if the couplets were posted correctly. If not, they took them off and re-posted them. After they are all posted, family members are always asked to comment on the content of each couplet. When the family sees the courtyard full of prosperous couplets looking forward to a better future, they always feel very happy and happy.

At that time, there was a custom that early in the morning after posting the Spring Festival couplets, one would call friends and family to look at them to see whose Spring Festival couplets were written well or had good content. If you have written something yourself, you must let your friends come into 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, we would say the content was good; if the content was not good, we would say the handwriting was good. Anyway, it was good. We also know that this is not the truth, but it does not affect our happiness at all.

After graduating from college and moving to the city, especially after settling down in the city, I still post Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. However, the Spring Festival couplets at this time are much more glamorous than the Spring Festival couplets in my hometown. The Spring Festival couplets here are not written with ink, but with gold powder, which is glittering. I didn't write it myself, it was printed by a machine. It looks very neat and clean, and the fonts are also in the notebook, which is much prettier than what we wrote. Even the way of pasting the Spring Festival couplets is different. There is no need to paste, just stick it with transparent tape. After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, your hands will not be stained red or black. I feel that celebrating the New Year in the city is better than in the countryside, such as posting Spring Festival couplets.

My children are a little older. On the first day of the new year, I will take them to the community and the street to see which couplets are written best. The child happily accepted the task and took a small notebook, saying that he could write down the good things he saw. At first, the child's interest was very high and he memorized a few couplets. After wandering around for half an hour, the child no longer wanted to wander around and said he wanted to go home. I said why, don’t you want to appreciate the Spring Festival couplets? The child said, Dad, you are really short-sighted. Don’t you see that every family is the same? The content is almost the same, the fonts are the same, and they are all printed, which is boring. Then, the child went home without looking back. I stood there and looked around, and it was really like this, so I followed him home angrily. I feel as if I owe my children, and I will never give them such a task again. Posting Spring Festival couplets every year has become my own task, and the children rarely lend a hand to help.

This year’s Spring Festival is here, and it’s time to post Spring Festival couplets again. I asked my daughter, who is already a senior in high school, how to make this year’s Spring Festival couplets? The child said, you can just go to the street and buy a pair or go to the bank business office to pick up a pair. Anyway, it is just a formality. I said that was boring, how about we make something interesting? The child asked what creativity he had. I knew that my children had also taken calligraphy classes, so I said we should write them ourselves. The child asked who wrote it? I said that me, your mother, and you, our family is just one door, and we can think about the content ourselves. The child asked timidly, can I do it? I said why not? At least there will be no typos. As long as the writing is meaningful, as long as we are happy. My proposal was approved by her mother. Seeing that we all agreed, the child said to give it a try.

I found the brush and red paper that had been gathering dust for a long time, cut them quickly, and laid them out on the dining table. There was no ink at home, so my daughter quickly went to the stationery store to buy some. Then, our family of three started scrambling to gather content. Finally, her mother came up with the last sentence, which was called "In the Year of the Dragon, the Dragon Son Lives in the Land of the Dragon." My daughter asked what's the point? Mom said, because your father was born in the year of the dragon, he is a dragon, that is, the son of the dragon. Now we live in Shilong District, so it is called "the son of the dragon lives in the land of the dragon in the year of the dragon." The second couplet written by my daughter is called "Phoenix is ??born and a phoenix girl flies into the phoenix's nest". What's the point of asking children this? She said that my mother was born in the year of the Rooster, which is also the Phoenix. I am her daughter, that is, the daughter of the Phoenix. I will take the college entrance examination again next year. I hope I can pass the exam in one fell swoop, go out, and leave the arms of my parents to start a new life. Didn't my life fly out of the phoenix's nest, so it is called "Phoenix born and phoenix girl flies into the phoenix's nest". When I heard this, I was busy saying that it made sense and was considered neat, so I'll make a comment and call it "everything goes well".

The content is correct, just write it down below. Her mother took up the pen and wrote the first couplet, and I wrote the second couplet. My daughter has never written calligraphy in front of us. She was a little shy today, but she finally wrote the horizontal batch. Her mother and I carefully looked at the handwriting written by the child. It looked a bit like the child herself, dignified and beautiful, and finally said, um, not bad. My daughter was a little nervous at first when we reviewed her calligraphy. Seeing that our evaluation was very good, she proudly said that at least there was not a single typo. As soon as my daughter finished speaking, the three of us couldn't help laughing. Finally, my daughter said that there must be a word for the family, so I will do it. After speaking, he solemnly folded a square piece of red paper diagonally and wrote a big "福" on the diagonal. Her mother and I looked at the word "福" and said happily that our family's blessings are brought by our children. How blessed we are. After saying that, there was another burst of cheerful laughter.

The Spring Festival couplets were dried, and our family of three posted them at the door of our house. When my daughter posted the word "福", she specifically turned the big "福" upside down, saying that this means blessing has come to our family. Her mother and I hurriedly said that the child knew a lot! When my daughter heard our compliments, she quickly made a face at us and walked into the "Fu" first.

After posting the Spring Festival couplets, our family of three began a happy Spring Festival life.