Farmers in Mati Town, Zunyi County are happy, follow the fashion and send couplets and plaques. Deng Guangqin, a villager in Xinping Village, said that when she got married, she received 10 couplets, and she liked the one of "mountains and rivers, sea and sky, bloody plum blossom spirit" best, from which she could draw spiritual strength.
Villager Deng Deen is a "scholar" in the village. Many people ask him to write couplets all the year round. "Always write twenty or thirty times a year." He said that there are four or five people in the village who like calligraphy like him, and they often help neighbors write couplets and plaques.