Is there a difference between writing Spring Festival couplets with ink and writing Spring Festival couplets with gold powder?
Tell you for sure, there is!
The first point: it is impossible to write traditional Spring Festival couplets with gold powder unless you want to rebel. History, including royalty, literati and local gentry, dare not write with gold powder. At that time, gold couplets (not Spring Festival couplets) were only used in palaces and temples. Even if the plaques of dignitaries are given by the royal authorities, it is generally impossible to use yellow as the main color.
The second point: the difference between modern gold powder and ink. Ink is familiar to everyone. Where is the gold powder? The gold powder we use to write Spring Festival couplets is actually copper powder, which can be divided into blue, red and green according to color, with fineness of 600 mesh, 800 mesh, 1000 mesh and 1200 mesh. Under normal circumstances, 800-mesh high-quality gold powder can meet the writing requirements, and it is generally used with thinner or a mixture of gasoline and varnish. Some stationery stores and paint shops also sell gold ink.
The third point: the writing effect. Gold powder writing is smoother, easier to write than ink, and does not flow, that is, writing is dry.
The fourth point: visual effect. The contrast is different, the color difference is different, and the gold powder writing has a great visual impact and is more conspicuous. It has a feeling of being on top. A look is nouveau riche. Spring Festival couplets written in ink are slightly thick and restrained, elegant and dignified.
Gold powder writing Spring Festival couplets originated in the late 1980s and prevailed in the early 1990s. Printing bronzing couplets originated from Wenzhou in the south of China, and the raw material is electrolytic aluminum. 1996, most parts of the country began to produce and sell bronzing couplets.