"Private Customization" New Year's Customs in the Millennium Ancient City: Use "Handwritten Temperature" to Retain the New Year's Taste

(Chinese New Year at the grassroots level) "Private Customization" New Year's Customs in the Millennium Ancient City: Use "Handwritten Temperature" to Keep the New Year's Taste

　　Chinanews.com, Yuncheng, January 14th, title: "Private Customization" New Year's Customs in the Millennium Ancient City: Use "Handwritten Temperature" to Retain the New Year's Taste

　　Author Yang Peipei

　　A few tables, a pile of red paper, multiple sets of pens and inks... Calligraphy lovers splashed ink and poured their blessings on the pens, and a pair of original Spring Festival couplets appeared on the paper.

Onlookers can choose their favorite Spring Festival couplets, or "customize" their favorite Spring Festival couplets on the spot.

　　As the Spring Festival approaches, such scenes can be seen everywhere in squares, streets, and villages in Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province.

Every year in the twelfth lunar month of the Chinese lunar calendar, local couplets and calligraphy lovers will be organized to write Spring Festival couplets, and original Spring Festival couplets will be written for the public on the spot.

　　Xinjiang, known as Jiangzhou in ancient times.

It was the capital of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, and belonged to Wei in the Warring States Period.

In the third year of Emperor Kaihuang (583) of the Sui Dynasty, the state government was moved from Yubi to the present county seat, which has a history of more than 1400 years.

　　"Kyushu flutes and drums urge spring rhyme, all the way to Jincheng with heroic songs" "The country is rich and the people are rich, and the rain is fulfilling the dream; the river is clear and the sea is calm, and the spring breeze is proud to draw new pictures"... Zhou Changsheng, the "veteran" of Xinjiang County Poetry and Couplet Society Vice Spring Festival couplets are "privately ordered" by the public.

Onlookers can choose their favorite Spring Festival couplets, or "customize" their favorite Spring Festival couplets on the spot.

Photo by Wu Junjie

　　Zhou Changsheng, 84 years old this year, has been fond of writing and drawing since he was young. During festivals or weddings and weddings, his neighbors ask him to write couplets. He has been writing for more than 50 years.

During the Spring Festival every year, Zhou Changsheng insists on creating and writing Spring Festival couplets.

"The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the original and handwritten couplets have a new year flavor. The original couplets pay attention to keeping pace with the times, so they are more popular among the people."

　　The Spring Festival couplets are a unique traditional culture of the Chinese nation, expressing the spiritual demands and good wishes of the Chinese people to pray for blessings and prosperity, drive away disasters and avoid disasters.

Writing Spring Festival couplets and posting Spring Festival couplets are not only a folk activity, but also an unforgettable symbol of continuing the cultural blood and recalling the nostalgia of the hometown.

　　According to Zhu Qinglong, president of the Xinjiang County Poetry and Couplets Association, Tao Fu refers to Spring Festival couplets.

During the Warring States Period, there was a custom of hanging "peach charms" in front of the door during the Chinese New Year in the northern Central Plains.

This scene is vividly reflected in the poems of Wang Anshi, a poet of the Song Dynasty.

　　With the changes of the times, handwriting Spring Festival couplets on red paper has gradually become popular.

"Peach Fu" is really called "Spring Festival couplets" in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, advocated the custom of putting on Chinese New Year couplets in every household during the Spring Festival, making the Spring Festival couplets an enduring custom to this day.

　　Zhu Qinglong told reporters that Spring Festival couplets carry the people's yearning for a better life. In Xinjiang County, Spring Festival couplets are posted wherever there is a door in the house, including pigpens, chicken coops, and cowsheds.

During the twelfth lunar month, the local people brought their own paper and ink to find someone to write Spring Festival couplets. The "customized" Spring Festival couplets made them feel happy and satisfied.

　　In recent years, with the continuous improvement of the printing technology of Spring Festival couplets, handwritten Spring Festival couplets have become less and less, and the culture of Spring Festival couplets has gradually been forgotten.

In order to preserve the taste of the New Year, Xinjiang County has insisted on providing "privately customized" Spring Festival couplets for the people for many years, and its content and form are also compatible with "tradition and individuality".

Today, couplet culture has become the business card of this thousand-year-old city.

　　"The twelfth lunar month is our busiest time every year. In addition to general couplets, the Spring Festival couplets created by members will also create industry couplets for various industries such as farming, electricity, schools, barber shops, and tofu shops." Zhu Qinglong said. More and more young people are joining the team of "original + handwritten" Spring Festival couplets to rediscover the flavor of the Spring Festival couplets and show the unique charm of the Spring Festival couplets culture.

　　Chef Liu Jianguo, 39, is one of them.

He loved calligraphy since he was a child. At first, he could only copy ready-made content to write Spring Festival couplets. Over time, Liu Jianguo realized that the content of Spring Festival couplets cannot be "the sound of the waves remains the same" every year. Spring Festival couplets must be handwritten and original, so as to inherit Chinese traditional culture. .

In recent years, his original Spring Festival couplets have been loved by many people.

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