China people always face the New Year bravely. After the first day of Laba, the taste of Chinese New Year is getting stronger and stronger. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is the main sense of form inherited by China people during the New Year for thousands of years.
Couplets originate from the symbol of peach. At first, people just hung "peach symbols" (that is, two mahogany boards) at the door to avoid misfortune. Because China's predecessors firmly believe that many peaches are symbols of longevity, they can eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits, and control ghosts and exorcism.
On the first day of the New Year in 964 AD, Meng Changjun, the monarch of Houshu, suddenly ordered ministers to write dialogues on the board in order to try to adjust them, so they wrote a pair of dialogues for review. Meng Chang took a look, and none of them were freehand brushwork. So he personally picked up a pen and wrote on the mahogany board: "New Year, Qing Yu Jiajieno. Changchun. " This is also the earliest couplet written by China.
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In the Song Dynasty, people changed the red board into paper couplets, but they still used to call it "Taofu". It was not until the Ming Dynasty that couplets were really called "couplets". According to Chen, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, "Couplets were invented by people. The imperial capital Jinling (now Nanjing), before New Year's Day, don't issue an imperial edict. People and officials should add a couplet at the door to let the emperor come out. " Zhu Yuanzhang not only traveled incognito and laughed, but also personally presented couplets to Bachelor Tao An and others. The emperor's initiative has made couplets increasingly popular, becoming an enduring folk custom in China and a necessary sense of form for China people to welcome the New Year.
City wall couplets, the taste of the ancient city
In Xi 'an, an ancient city, not only do families put up couplets before the dawn of the new year, but the ancient Xi 'an city wall also uses this special way to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Since 2006, Xi 'an City Wall Management Committee has held the activity of collecting couplets for fourteen consecutive years. This year, 5,229 domestic and foreign colleagues from 59 cities around the world submitted * * * 27 186 works by email, WeChat Weibo mobile terminal and webpage terminal. Of course, there are also many excellent works. Recently, the 2020 Spring Festival Xi 'an ancient city wall global signature couplet activity was successfully concluded. At the same time, the contents of the collection and selection of six Spring Festival couplets in Xi 'an City Wall were officially released:
open the door
Seven ranks of strong forests, Wanjiafu reflects the red day.
A city is full of Zhong Rui, and eight waters are full of spring breeze.
(Shaanxi? Xi "Wang Xiaofeng")
Analysis: The couplet eulogizes the great achievements since the founding of New China with "Seven Ranks Strong Forest", and inherits the achievements of "Wanjiafu" in further implementing the well-being of citizens. At the same time, punting and tasting the old customs and "Fuying Tongri" set off the people's sincere recognition of the brilliant achievements of the old country. Against the backdrop of spring scenery in Chang 'an, Bashui Spring is not only a good news for the early morning of ancient Chang 'an in spring, but also a good opportunity for Xi 'an to grow up full of joy and enthusiasm. "Warm wind" is melodious and lingering.
A door with light
This city contains Han, Xu, Tang and Xun, so it is a prosperous era.
At the age of seven, Yinger sounded the letter, and Wan Li wished Chang 'an with the spring breeze.
(Jiangxi? Nanchang Zhao)
Analysis: The couplets describe the historical background of ancient Chang 'an and the peculiar connotation of Guangmen. It traces the great achievements of the ancient capital in its heyday with "Han Xu Tang Xun", cuts the Guangmen Cave site in the Tang Dynasty with "old saying" and shows the Guangmen site with "Shi Guangsheng", which makes people dream back to the Tang Dynasty. For the subtitle author, beautiful spring, festive and peaceful, and strangeness are common idioms in Xi 'an City Gate couplets, such as "Han and Tang Dynasties" and "Yan Ying". They can skillfully use parody rhetoric to innovate and write their own faces.
East Gate (Changle Gate) Yi
About Chunlin and Chungong, I woke up in the dream of thirteen dynasties.
Chang 'an Chang 'an Changzhi, Changle, a century-old new levy.
(Shanxi? Yuncheng Yuan Shaomin)
Analysis: Couplets are composed of spring forest, spring fever and spring workers, which compose the movement of spring, praise the merits of spring, avoid vulgarity and familiarity, and have a unique style, like laying a long green carpet, implying colorful dreams of a better life and adding romance; Pairs of Changle, Chang 'an and Changzhi are arranged side by side, praising the sights of the ancient capital and expressing their prosperous feelings, like building a prosperous stage for Cheng Kang, Wenjing, Zhenguan, Kaiyuan and even today's China rule, and marching towards two great journeys of a hundred years.
One of the West Gate (Anning Gate)
Camel bells proudly float to accompany spring.
Jumping from the Imperial City with a tiger step, playing delusion.
(Guangdong? Shenzhen Kang)
Analysis: The couplets are written as the Spring of Silk Road, and Haruka is accompanied by camel bells; The starting point of Chang 'an is the starting point of the Silk Road and the starting point of delusion, which perfectly explains Xi 'an's historical contribution and mission in the new era as the starting point of the Silk Road. In two sentences, camel bells cut the silk road, and the starting point of the tiger-step silk road grew, with vivid image and outstanding language; Two concluding remarks, enthusiastic, brief and powerful. Generally speaking, the first couplet is flying, and the second couplet is inspiring, which makes the delusion of spring linger in prosperous Chang 'an.
South Gate (Yongning Gate) 1
Liuhe * * * gives birth to spring, and Qinchuan in eight hundred miles is like a dream.
Strong music into the Song Dynasty, the imperial city of the 13th Dynasty "outing".
(Liaoning? Suizhongzhang)
Analysis: The couplets begin with "Liuhe * * * gives birth to spring", creating lofty spring images, closely following the "Qinchuan Dream", warmly setting off the spring scenery of Sanqin, which is vivid and elegant; With the theme of "Enjoying Joy through Strength", the deputy envoys praised the great achievements of China's rule and inherited the "Song of the Emperor", which was heavy and elegant. The All-China Federation is neat, and there are two well-known epigrams. Delicate conception, dense bedding, profound conception, full of rich feelings.
North Gate (Anyuanmen) 1
In China, love is burning and flowers are holding their heads high.
Spring is full of Xiaokang Road, and Five Blessingg is the first to visit Fengcheng.
(Shaanxi? An Wei Guo Kai of Xi)
Analysis: The theme of the Year of China is closely related to the national strategy of building a well-off society in an all-round way in 2020. The names of Chang 'an City (Fengcheng), Baihua Village and Longshou Garden in the north of the city are cut into the north gate, and spring and happiness are integrated into one, so that the spirit of the times, Chang 'an scene, the connotation of the city gate, the imagination of spring and the wishes of the New Year are integrated in all directions. The antithesis of couplets is wonderful and poetic, hammering six verbs and refining several groups of images.
In addition to these six groups, there are other couplets with beautiful words, neat antithesis and rich feelings of ancient capital, which will be hung on the gate of Xi 'an city wall on the occasion of the Spring Festival, bringing a cultural feast to Xi people at the end of each year, and also for the sake of "Xi Miko Wu"? The most China "added a touch of bright color.
Defend the city walls and China culture.
We are in Chang 'an, and we are fortunate to be accompanied by the ancient city wall of Xi 'an, which has experienced many vicissitudes. We go through it day and night, with her year after year. Every New Year comes, Xi 'an City Wall will celebrate the New Year with folk sports such as couplets and Yuanxiao, and this year is no exception.
Chinese sons and daughters who persistently adhere to the tradition of China have linked poetry, couplets, calligraphy, New Year's Day culture with the bearing of Angu City Wall, and condensed a pair of couplets that are frank, or take it as a reference, or recall the prosperous Tang Dynasty, or look forward to the future, which not only restores the most familiar flavor of the year, but also contains the national aesthetic and cultural self-confidence that the ancient capital of the 13th Dynasty should have!
As the saying goes, "Hundred Festivals First", the release of taichu calendar in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made Xi 'an, an ancient city, the birthplace of the Spring Festival in China. Xi 'an also bears the historical glory and heavy memory of the Chinese nation. But for many young people, how much can they remember about China festivals and China customs?
Therefore, we have also made progress. While defending Xi 'an City Wall, we can learn more about China's folk culture and defend the tradition and "flavor of the year"! Let the inheritance of China intangible culture and the treasures of Xi 'an city wall be passed down from generation to generation! Endless!
The flavor of the year rhymes with the year of China, and the cultural connotation is seen in Xi 'an.
The original collection is departmental pictures.
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