June 5438+10/October Zhouqu has a mild climate and pleasant scenery. This is a small town located in the southern mountainous area of Gansu Province. Bailong River passes through the city and is known as "the hometown of Jiangnan" and "the only Yangzhou". Entering the center of the county, what caught the reporter's eye was the patchwork buildings.
"The moral popularization of Zhouqu ushered in a new realm of civilization and staged a good voice in Tibet." This is a woodcarving couplet hanging at the entrance of assured grain store in Zhouqu County. The reporter saw that in the county, shops, restaurants, residential courtyards and other buildings have formed the custom of hanging and posting couplets.
"Hanging couplets is festive and has a cultural atmosphere." A local resident told reporters that Zhouqu is a small county with a small population, but every family loves couplets culture. Every spring festival, everyone gets together to create and write couplets, and then every family rushes to post couplets to welcome the new year.
In Zhouqu, in order to carry forward and inherit the couplets culture, in 20 15, the county government built the first national couplets cultural corridor in the center of the county. Whenever night falls and the lights are on, the couplets cultural corridor, against the backdrop of lights, releases the profound connotation of China traditional culture with its unique written expression.
"Poetry couplet, a thousand years of bright moon and five continents celebrate the Oriental Dream Lantern, reflecting the splendid spring of China". While a foreign tourist stopped to watch the couplets, his peers also took photos at night in the corridor of Lianwen Street.
A tourist from Baoji City, Shaanxi Province said: "In Zhouqu, you can not only see the beautiful natural landscape, but also enjoy the rich couplets, which is really rewarding."
During the interview, the reporter not only felt the poetry of couplets culture, but also the local residents loved couplets culture. Residents living near the couplet cultural street corridor said that whenever night falls and the whole west street is red, people in the county town will go to the streets to watch lanterns and enjoy couplets. "One lane is red with lights and poetry; The street is classical, and the scholars are landscapes. " Men, women and children walk in the world of light couplets, making the night of "Tibetan Township in the South of the Yangtze River" more charming and intriguing.
Couplet culture is handed down from generation to generation.
Couplets are excellent cultural heritage in China, and they are antithetical sentences written on paper or cloth or engraved on wood, bamboo and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique artistic form of Chinese language.
The reason why the cultural heritage of couplets can be handed down from generation to generation in Zhouqu is that there are many lovers of couplets as inheritors and carry it forward.
Shang Pili is the inheritor of couplets culture in Zhouqu County. Walking into his house, the calligrapher nave hangs on the building, and you can feel that this is a cultural family.
Shang Bili, 68, was a teacher in Zhouqu No.1 Middle School before he retired. According to him, his father Shang Chongwen is a famous Chinese medicine practitioner. He is proficient in the four books and five classics. He not only writes couplets, but also creates them. Influenced by his father since childhood, he has a strong interest in couplet culture.
"When I was a child, I tried to create couplets under the guidance of my father and the inheritors of the older generation. 1967 after taking part in the work, I also had the opportunity to communicate with my colleagues. Now, I have created some couplets that reflect local real life. " Shang Yili said.
It is reported that Shang Pi-li's couplets have been selected in China Couplets Collection, Thirty Years of Longlian and other publications. Nowadays, in addition to creation, Shang Pili continues to guide young lovers of couplets to learn to create.
In Zhouqu, in addition to the inheritors like Shang Bi-li who are promoting couplet culture, Zhouqu No.1 Middle School has also incorporated couplet culture into normal teaching.
Yang Yanyu, vice president of Zhouqu No.1 Middle School, told the reporter: "From 2065438 to September 2004, the school opened a lecture on couplets and established a cultural and educational base for couplets. Couplet classes are held once every two weeks and taught by a Chinese teacher. In the past two years, the school also held a teacher-student couplet contest, and the winning works were hung in the corridor of the teaching building. "
Yang Xiaoli in Class 0/5, Grade 3/KLOC is a quiet girl. In the eyes of classmates, her literary talent is quite good. In the couplets competition, her work "Cuifeng Sunset Red Reflects the Jade Camel Bell into the Painting Screen" won the first prize. "The earliest contact with couplet culture was during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival when I was a child. At that time, everyone posted Spring Festival couplets. When I was in middle school, I tried to learn to create couplets according to the classical Chinese I had learned. " Yang Xiaoli said that she wanted to be a Chinese teacher in her hometown and pass on the couplet culture.
"China couplet culture county" is worthy of the name.
According to Li Baicheng, chairman of Zhouqu County Federation of Literary and Art Circles, "Couplets are said to have originated from Meng Chang, the owner of Shu after the Five Dynasties, and Zhouqu's couplet culture has a history of hundreds of years. The creation of couplets is enduring. The Lantern Festival has been around since the Ming Dynasty, and it has been handed down from generation to generation. Now, the Lantern Festival in Song Peng,
There are many stories about Yuanxiao couplets in Zhouqu. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a county magistrate in Yangzhou, and the town was about to celebrate the New Year. His wife misses her hometown very much and mopes all day. So the county magistrate launched a large family in the street, imitating the scene in her hometown during the New Year, set up a pine shed on the street, hung a pair of lights, and personally wrote the banner "Not only Yangzhou" and "Half a pine shed and half a shelf", "The moon reflects the sky, the lights gather in the city, and the moonlight in Wan Li is peaceful." While waiting for the couplets, my wife smiled. Since then, the town has held a lantern festival every two or three years, and "everyone walks the bridge to enjoy paintings, and everyone watches the lights and sings poems" has been passed down to this day.
Li Baicheng said: "As a literary genre and cultural phenomenon that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, Zhouqu people have always used lanterns to write couplets. In the past, Zhouqu County held a lantern festival every few years to attract tourists from Fiona Fang Baili. "
20/kloc-in June, at the expert demonstration meeting on the application of Song Peng Couplet Lantern Festival in Zhouqu, Wang Chuanming, consultant of Gansu Couplet Society and professor of Lanzhou University, said: "I didn't expect that there would be such a large-scale Couplet Lantern Festival in Zhouqu, which is deeply hidden in Tibetan villages. I have read it carefully, and there are many couplets.
According to reports, in 20 14, the book "Ancient and Modern Couplets-China Couplets Integration, Gansu Zhouqu Volume" was published, including 4,550 ancient and modern Zhouqu couplets. At the same time, the works of nearly ten people, such as Han Jixiang, Yang Junshi and Zhifei, who are cultural figures in Zhouqu, have also been selected into many national couplets books, such as Contemporary Grand View of Couplets edited by China Couplets Society. At the beginning of 20 15, Gansu couplet society named Zhouqu No.1 Middle School, Fengdie Middle School, Chengguan No.1 Primary School and Chengguan No.2 Primary School as the couplet education bases in Gansu Province. On June 20 15, Zhouqu County was named "China Couplet Culture County" by China Couplet Society, becoming the first county in Gansu Province to receive this honor.
Zhouqu couplets culture, a wonderful cultural flower growing in Jiangnan, the hometown of Tibetans, will be more colorful and dazzling.