Before the festival, CCTV, the National Library and the China Couplet Society held a collection activity for Spring Festival couplets in the Year of the Horse. As a lover, I actively participate. Finally, a pair of Spring Festival couplets recommended by me was included in 100 "Outstanding Spring Festival couplets of past dynasties". After attending the competition, I remembered some past events related to couplets.
I was born in a peasant family, my parents attach importance to education, and my children are rarely illiterate. Every year during the Spring Festival or at weddings, funerals and funerals, I write my own couplets. Although words may not be in the eyes of the Fang family, I can also entertain myself. My family separated early because my father had a younger brother. My new home is on the edge of the village. For safety, I have a puppy, which is similar to my birth year.
As long as I can remember, my grandfather has written Spring Festival couplets for several years. Grandpa's handwriting is very neat and standard, and Yan Kai is generous and dignified, just like him. He always finds suitable couplets from several old calendar books, and writes two pairs every year, one for his hometown and one for his new home. Later Spring Festival couplets are often written by my brother-in-law. His handwriting is very hard-driving, long and straight, with a touch of Liu or European style. It looks very natural and unrestrained, but sometimes his handwriting is not good, not as steady as grandpa's.
Later, when my brother and I grew up, we began to like calligraphy and began to pay attention to Spring Festival couplets. Old newspapers and unused books at home must be filled in Chinese characters before they are thrown away. I also use a dog brush made of hair cut from dogs to write on concrete floors and walls with water. After that, every time the Spring Festival approaches, we put the waste newspapers and ink cartridges on the coffee table and began to practice calligraphy, write couplets and scribble.
My father and my brother and I often quarrel over the words used in Spring Festival couplets. And my mother will always join in and say that your father and son can't even write couplets for a few days. Why don't I write them?
In fact, the combination of father and son is still possible. My father's pen handwriting is very natural and unrestrained, and his brush handwriting is slightly inferior, neat and formal. My brother's handwriting is scrawled, slightly better than his friend's; I am a little less patient because of my lack of patience, but sometimes I can write a few beautiful words. I still remember that the first couplet I wrote and adopted was: "I was drunk for a thousand years;" Smile at the new willow dew in the century. "It was written by my brother 200 1 during the Spring Festival. After posting, whenever I see relatives who come to pay New Year greetings, I will capture their eyes and comments on Spring Festival couplets.
Four or five years later that spring, my father died unexpectedly. The whole family was heartbroken. During the mourning day, Spring Festival couplets will no longer be posted during the New Year. Later, my brother who worked in other places came back for a wedding. When the years of gloom at home were swept away, my brother-in-law and I began to write couplets and put them on every door. Others don't want to care too much, but they are always dissatisfied with the couple on the pillars of the main house. Finally, I made a couplet called: "Lang Jun hired Jia Shu to play the case of Qi Mei; On auspicious days, the word sang. " The handwriting was written by Grandpa himself.
More than a year later, grandpa passed away. During this period, the old dog who guarded my family for more than 20 years and contributed a lot of dog hair to me also ended his life and rested in peace.
In the next few years, because my brother was employed and settled in other places, I worked in a neighboring province. Sometimes I spend Spring Festival here, sometimes I spend Spring Festival there, but I have no intention to write Spring Festival couplets. Either you don't post it, or you post a pair of gifts you bought. It's the Spring Festival. At this time, I always think of the dribs and drabs of that year. There is one person missing in a family of four, and my mother is taking our brothers everywhere. Four people scattered in three places, lonely grave desolate, regardless of wind and rain.
Before the Spring Festival this year, I saw the collection of Spring Festival couplets in the Year of the Horse. I voted several times and the final result was announced. I'm a little disappointed, but after careful reading, I really found everyone's cleverness, and I am convinced. Fortunately, a pair of Spring Festival couplets I recommended was selected as 100 "excellent Spring Festival couplets of past dynasties", which is also a recognition of my vision and can be a little comforting.
Looking back at the couplets written in those years, I know that there are many mistakes, but it is difficult to give up the memories of the past. I can't help thinking of my grandfather, my father who died young, and my old dog who is the same age but separated by Yin and Yang. I can't help crying again.