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Chinese couplets

1089 views. 2011-2-7 10:27 |

Chinese couplets are also called as "Duilian".When Chinese Spring festival is coming, people usually decorate their house with couplets. Couplets are pasted on the door panels. On the couplets best wishes or good luck are expressed.

Every year in the past time, my family did that like the other Chinese families.

On spring festival eve, about 2:00 pm, my father begun to write calligraphy on the red paper, the content of which were usually from the permanent calendar. When I was young, I often was at the desk and looked at my father writing on the red paper. He dipped his pen in the black ink with pen brush and did it at one go from beginning to end. It is admirable that my father wrote so beautiful calligraphy, so one of my wishes as a child is that I can write good-looking handwriting like my father. I don’t know whether my father has influence on me, now my handwriting often received great praise from someone, and they always asked me: “Have you ever practiced calligraphy?” my reply was “No, never”.

When my brother and I grew up gradually, my father begun to asked my brother to write on the red paper and demanded me making up the couplets instead of permanent calendar. At the beginning, my brother wasted a lot of papers for a good couplet. As for me, It takes a few hours for the content of a pair of couplets. Because the couplets were pasted on the door panels for the whole year until next year they were replaced by new ones, I must rack my brains for couplets in order that the other people didn’t laugh at us.

The beginning of new year, people often exchange to visit their house each other. When someone visited our house, my father always pointed at the couplets and said proudly: “My son and daughter did them all and they did it well” I really disliked my father doing that and I thought my father was a vain person, but afterwards I understood that my father just hoped his children would have a bright futher.

Nowadays, my brother and I didn’t go home each year for our work, but once we were at home, my brother can finish a pair of couplets easily and I was able to make up the content of a pair of couplets only for a few minutes. Although people can buy pouplets from the market and It is very simple, convenient and even more perfect than self-writing, my father insist on doing that instead of buying. He thought it is traditional culture and wanted to us not to abandon them. Thanks to my father.I love him and I love my family!

so what about you? Did you write couplets by yourself or buy them from a market a few days before spring festival?

 

Post comment Comment (5 replies)

Reply Sumingyu 2011-2-7 21:23
Now  self-writing  couplets  is  quite  rare.
All  households  buy  them  from  the  fair.
I’m  glad  finding  your  family  like  mine;
Prefer  writing  to  buying  them  as  wine.
Reply lailai11 2011-2-8 08:20
Sumingyu: Now  self-writing  couplets  is  quite  rare.
All  households  buy  them  from  the  fair.
I’m  glad  finding  your  family  like  mine;
Prefer  writi
So I think your handwriting is pretty good. I often saw some older practice calligraphy on the clean ground of park only dipping water when I went by the park early morning. The calligraphy is quite beautiful. Amazing me!
Reply Sumingyu 2011-2-8 22:18
Calligraphy  is  our  national  treasure.
Practicing  it  gives  us  a  pleasure.
Let’s  make  common  efforts  for  protection.
Pass  it  down   generation  after  generation.
Reply lailai11 2011-2-9 10:25
Sumingyu: Calligraphy  is  our  national  treasure.
Practicing  it  gives  us  a  pleasure.
Let’s  make  common  efforts  for  protection.
Pass  it  down   gen
No problem. It is important that I love calligraphy.
Reply Tange 2011-2-9 16:30
i had seen those words in your other blog ..but here is more viewer than other places , hehe ,

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