In many people's impressions of the Spring Festival, the "Spring Festival couplets posted on New Year's Eve" is undoubtedly the warmest memory in the cold winter months. Spring Festival couplets not only mean eliminating evil spirits and disasters, but also play an important role in showing cultural taste, educating children and inspiring family members. In Guanzhong area, which is famous for its farming civilization, "farming and reading is a family motto". Writing and posting Spring Festival couplets is an indispensable New Year tradition. Writing couplets for one's family and fellow villagers has always been an obligation to go home before the Spring Festival.
However, when I returned to my hometown this year, the reporter found that this cultural wealth with folk characteristics was gradually disappearing. The faint ink slowly dispersed, and the handwritten Spring Festival couplets were hard to find; Instead, the printed Spring Festival couplets no longer bear the traditional brushwork and ink fragrance, and also lack the interest of carefully choosing words.
In the streets of Xi 'an, the traditional handwritten Spring Festival couplets are hard to find, while the printed Spring Festival couplets show the appearance of "unifying the world". Printed Spring Festival couplets are almost hung and pasted on both sides of the gates of university campuses, government agencies, enterprise shopping malls and even ancient city walls.
The college gate is located next to Xi 'an Beilin Museum. More than a decade ago, whenever the Spring Festival approached, the whole street was full of handwritten Spring Festival couplets writers and word seekers. Nowadays, in the streets and alleys, thousands of couplets are printed with Spring Festival couplets on the edge, and the gold characters on the red background are "sparkling".
The founder of Wei Zhi Daoxin Sinology Public Welfare School told reporters that behind the gradual retreat of handwritten Spring Festival couplets is the loss of traditional culture, which must be paid enough attention to. At the same time, couplets are out-and-out China traditional culture. Schools should guide students to know and like couplets, and even create and write couplets. Otherwise, it will be difficult to inherit and carry forward the couplet culture.
"Welcome to Qing Yu and celebrate Changchun in the new year" is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. As a unique literary form, Spring Festival couplets have a long history in China. It began in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has developed for more than 1000 years. As a treasure of China traditional culture, exquisite calligraphy skills are an important part of Spring Festival couplets. Zhong Mingshan, a professor at Xi Jiaotong University and a famous calligrapher, wrote Spring Festival couplets for villagers before the Spring Festival. He believes that couplets are the perfect combination of calligraphy art and couplets art, which should be both artistic and ornamental. Although the appearance of printed Spring Festival couplets reflects the progress of industrial civilization, it blocks the source of personalized creation of handwritten Spring Festival couplets and separates the perfect combination of calligraphy art and couplets art, and a good Spring Festival couplets is often a sign of the owner's taste.
Director Liu Yinglong, who has been engaged in film and television editing and directing for a long time, thinks: "Good Spring Festival couplets have good writing and good content. I once stopped to ponder over couplets for a long time. But now, as soon as I go out, the doors of every household are occupied by golden and unpretentious printed Spring Festival couplets. Among hundreds or even thousands of Spring Festival couplets, there are only more than ten kinds of contents involved, which lack new ideas and cannot give people enlightenment and guidance. "
So, how can we make the Spring Festival couplets culture become a unique flower that is permanently open in the literary garden?
Facing the drifting handwritten Spring Festival couplets, Yang Hang, an associate researcher at Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences, also expressed the hope that the Spring Festival couplets can return to the truth and regain the tradition. After all, "printed Spring Festival couplets are not as good-looking as handwritten ones".
In Bin County, Shaanxi Province, the birthplace of the relatively remote Book of Songs, the reporter found that most of the Spring Festival couplets in the village were handwritten, with diverse and graceful handwriting. "In our place, we pay attention to' writing' Spring Festival couplets, and buying printed Spring Festival couplets and sticking them at the door will be laughed at." High school teacher Zhu Dui said.
The weather in Guanzhong area at the end of the twelfth lunar month and the beginning of the first month is extremely cold, and the festive and peaceful atmosphere embodied in Spring Festival couplets is particularly warm today with the increasingly developed modern civilization.