The reporter came to the office of China Couplet Association to visit this teacher's friend's book couplet.
President Meng lives not far away. He comes here early every morning to arrange educational affairs, sometimes reading books and newspapers, and sometimes splashing ink. The room is tall, and the whole north wall is President Meng's calligraphy work "Yueyang Tower". On the opposite wall, the title is: "hide the door and leave the spring to laugh at me." The bookcase against the wall is covered with felt and pen ink. The bookcase near the door is full of cultural and artistic books, and there are many books and letters piled up on the desk. The picture frame hanging on the wall is inlaid with "National Advanced Community Organization" issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs on June 20 10.
"Couplets have been hung on the wall since ancient times and have a wide range of applicable values. Nowadays, it is popular in all walks of life, giving gifts, encouraging yourself, celebrating, welcoming the spring, and short sentences are deeply rooted in people's hearts. " President Meng is deeply impressed. Chatting with President Meng, the topic is always inseparable. This year's "Spring Festival Evening", five couplets were collected, and 500,000 pairs were collected nationwide. This is because the China Couplet Association and CCTV collected sentences on CCTV in advance, and then evaluated the couplets. Dean Meng and other experts participated in the whole process. "How to make China couplets, the quintessence of the country, go out of the study, serve the society and popularize the rules of couplets for the whole people is a problem worth exploring, and it is also the work that the society has been working hard for many years. "President Meng went to Chongqing to participate in the' New Spring Festival couplets into thousands of households' activity this year. When he learned that the city had collected 5 million new Spring Festival couplets, he praised them greatly. He praised a couplet on the spot: "One city is expensive, and every family is red. "For many media in Chongqing, they are scrambling to report.
"Last year was the year of popularizing couplets in China, and the society has done a lot of work for it. Fortunately, the China Couplet Society has published the General Journal of Couplets (revised edition), and finally the couplets have a unified standard for students, writers and critics. This year, the focus is on "couplets into the campus". First, it will be piloted in 60 primary and secondary schools across the country, and then gradually promoted. This year marks the centenary of the Revolution of 1911 and the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the China Producers' Party, and the couplets should make a masterpiece for it. China has a long history of traditional culture, and the art of couplets is profound. As long as we work hard, the popularity of couplets will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. " President Meng is full of confidence in the popularity of couplets.
Meng, President of China Couplet Association, Vice President of China Overseas Chinese Literature and Art Association, former Minister of Political Department of Air Force. 1939 10 was born in Lishu County, Jilin Province. Influenced by my family, I loved calligraphy since I was a child. After 60 years of continuous writing, the calligraphy style is vigorous and majestic. His works have been put into exhibitions, books, monuments and classics many times. In recent years, he devoted himself to combining ink and created many. In 2005, he successfully organized the compilation of Spring Festival couplets of CCTV Spring Festival Gala. He has written the lyrics of the March of China Air Force and the song Song of Advanced Company which won the "Five One Project" award, and has given titles to more than 0/00 books, periodicals and TV plays for/kloc.
There are 100-meter-long volumes of Cao Cao's Poems, Thousands of Words in Official Records, Meng Calligraphy Collection, etc., with Blue Sky Literature and Art Series, Blue Sky Painting and Calligraphy, Blue Sky Music Library, hundreds of Manuscripts, and Three Hundred Books in Qing Dynasty as the chief editors.
(□ Editor of this magazine)