On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Zhaohua spread out the red paper and wrote out the peach character couplet that he had thought about all night last night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The peach charm is the rectangular peach wood board hanging on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty, and the image of the two gods of Shen Tu and Yu Lei appeared in the Han Dynasty, thinking that it can suppress evil. In the time of the five dynasties, the couplet was written on the peach board, and then written on the paper, and in today's Hongwu period, there is finally a new name, **Lian.

The popularity of the Spring Festival couplets is in this era of Emperor Hongwu Zhu, Zhu Yuanzhang himself likes the couplets very much, and once issued a holy decree, requiring the imperial capital Jinling to add a pair of Spring Festival couplets to the door regardless of the minister. Therefore, such a custom in Nanjing was quickly passed on, and the prefectures and counties under the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the streets and alleys, whether they were dignitaries or ordinary people, all followed the trend, but it was several times faster than the implementation of treasure money.

It is said that when he passed by a family in Jinling at night, he saw that there were no Spring Festival couplets on the door of this house, only two pieces of red paper were pasted, so he went to inquire, and learned that this is a steer who can't write couplets, so he inscribed a pair of Spring Festival couplets: "Both hands split the road of life and death, and cut the root of right and wrong with a knife." ”

I don't know if the above rumors are true, although pork is not forbidden in the palace now, but it is unlikely that Emperor Zhu, who has a lot of taboos, can see the killing of pigs with his own eyes and help with an inscription with a smile.

However, the matter of Jinling officials and nobles is too far away and has nothing to do with it, Zhang Zhaohua wants to write his own couplet here, she wrote five or six couplets in one go, and took it out to Zhang Qi to see, Zhang Qi saw that she wrote in large characters properly, and was very happy, and saw that this Spring Festival couplet was not the previous "firecrackers to remove the old, peach charm ten thousand households to update", but a new couplet, just look carefully: "Happy to live in the treasure land for thousands of years, blessing according to the family everything is prosperous." ”

"This is good," Zhang Qixi said: "The flowers in the sunny courtyard bloom early, and there are many happy events for hard-working people - this is also good." ”

Wang listened to Zhang Qi reading and said: "I think this 'Prosperous people increase their longevity, and the early spring is full of blessings' is also good." ”

"Choose one of them to hang outside the gate," Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "I also wrote a couplet for everyone." ”

Outside the door of Zhang Qi and Wang's main house, Zhang Zhaohua prepared "The days increase the years, the people increase their longevity, and the spring is full of blessings", and the lintel of Zhang Chang's new house is "Fish and water for a thousand years, Zhilan Baishichang", she originally wanted to write a "red plum knot, green bamboo and grandson", but she was afraid that the bride would be too careful, giving birth to a child is a matter of time or time, so there is no need to urge so tightly, so that everyone is not at ease.

What was given to Zhang Sheng was a pair of "take the treasures of Kyushu and the four seas, and occupy the right time, place and people". These two sentences have deep meanings, and now the whole family supports him, which can be said to have taken up all the people, if he does not mix up in the Ming Hall in the future, it will be naked irony.

In the end, she thought about it, and also wrote a Spring Festival couplet for herself, "The book is golden, and the room has Lan Huixiang", as an encouragement, hoping that she will read more and be more motivated.

In the end, everyone happily pasted the Spring Festival couplets, and Wang also took out the blessing characters she cut and pasted them on the doors and windows. Zhang Zhaohua didn't pay attention to it before, but now he looked at it and said strangely: "A-Niang, why don't you paste this blessing word upside down?"

"Why do you want to stick it upside down?" Wang said in surprise.

"The blessing has fallen," Zhang Zhaohua gestured and said, "The blessing has fallen!"

Wang Shi reacted after a half a beat, and laughed: "What a lot of tricks!" said hesitantly, but really pasted an upside-down blessing word.

Zhang Zhaohua posted it on the door, and Wang said: "The door is not pasted, and when the daughter-in-law enters the door, she will post the word double happiness!"

"There are still seven or eight days," Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "I posted the word blessing first!"

There were two upside-down blessing characters pasted on the top of the gate, which were seen by the villagers who passed by and shouted: "Your family's words seem to be upside down!"

"That's right," Zhang Zhaohua said meaningfully: "The blessing has fallen, the blessing has arrived—"

This "blessing has arrived" was spread far away by the child's crisp voice, and the louder and louder it became. When a few knowledgeable people in the village heard this, they said: "Uncle Qi's family is going to build a family!"

On this day, firecrackers were set off from morning to night, and it was crackling that I couldn't tell whether it was the sound of firecrackers or laughter, but in short, the sound was in my ears. It seems that the strong and pungent smell of firecrackers and firecrackers and the fragrance of bacon that blow with the wind are all the taste of the New Year, and there is a feeling that the bones are numb when you smell it.

In the evening, the family sat around and ate stewed sheep's trotters, this pot of stewed meat was rotten, and yams and carrots were put in it, Zhang Zhaohua's mouth was full of oil, and her stomach was already full, but when she saw a plate of flat food brought out by Wang, she couldn't help but stretch out her chopsticks to eat.

Flat food is dumplings, but at this time, everyone calls it flat food, and Zhang Zhaohua is used to it, a plate of dumplings with mutton and celery, Zhang Zhaohua himself feels that he can't straighten his waist, and he doesn't bother to use the strength of his fingers. However, when you have a full stomach, you have to come to keep the New Year, Wang is very serious about this, saying that if you don't let you sleep, you won't let you sleep, sit on the chair and accompany Zhang Zhaohua to play the ropes, and when you see which one is drowsy, you will reward a chestnut to come up.

The table is full of pastries and sweets, each with a meaning, such as eating dates (spring comes early), eating persimmons (everything goes well), eating almonds (happy people), eating longevity fruit (immortality), and eating rice cakes (getting higher and higher every year). Seeing that Zhang Zhaohua was sleepy, Wang stuffed a persimmon into her mouth, and Zhang Zhaohua chewed and chewed so that he didn't fall asleep.

In the second half of the night, Zhang Qi took the dice and threw them big and small to decide how much money each child had for the New Year.

In the flat food before, Wang deliberately wrapped three copper coins into it, which were eaten by Zhang Zhaohua and Wang respectively, and Zhang Zhaohua also bit out two in a row, almost breaking his teeth.

After staying up like this for a long time, I don't know when, Wang suddenly stood up and woke up the three children who were half-asleep and half-awake, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, let's change your clothes, go out and drop money!"

Zhang Zhaohua entered his room in a daze, changed out of his old clothes, put on the new cotton jacket and skirt that Wang had already sewn, and only after wearing it did he really sober up, and walked to the main house to take Zhang Chang Zhang Sheng kowtow to his father and mother, and got a red envelope pinched in his hand, which contained ten cents.

Listening to the firecrackers set off at Fangfang's house next door, Zhang Sheng complained while hanging the long pole: "It's time for the fifth watch, I'm so anxious, I can't put it in advance!"

"Has the bar head been removed?" asked Wang in the room.

"Unloaded, unloaded," Zhang Zhaohua rubbed his fingers and said, "I'm going to throw it this year—"

"Is it steady," Zhang Sheng said with a smile on the side: "Don't smash your nose!"

Zhang Zhaohua rubbed her hands, she wore a new cotton jacket, her whole body was very warm, only one pair of hands was empty, no gloves to keep out the cold - not that there were no gloves in ancient times, but the common people had to work with both hands, and it was really inconvenient to wear this.

Zhang Chang took off the bolt of the door, threw it into the air, caught it when he landed, and said with a smile: "Good luck!"

When it was Zhang Sheng's turn, this guy put on a posture, like juggling, not throwing it flat, but throwing it vertically, turning out many tricks in the air, and shouting in his mouth: "Those who have money hold a money field, and those who don't have money hold a personal field-" made a lot of funny things, making Zhang Chang and Zhang Zhaohua laugh non-stop.

Zhang Zhaohua took the deadbolt, she had also tried Wang's thickest rolling pin before, so she was also full of confidence, of course, she would not be as good as Zhang Sheng, but she threw less than half a meter, and grabbed it steadily: "Good luck, good luck for the New Year!"

This is the meaning of falling money, and then the three brothers and sisters set off firecrackers, because there was a "third-level wave" that Zhang Sheng bought from the city, and it made a funny sound of "croaking" in the air, just like the cry of a toad, which attracted many villagers to come and see it at once.

After washing his hands and returning to the house, Wang's spring plate is also ready, also known as Xin Pan and Wu Xin Pan, that is, five kinds of vegetables with a spicy flavor are served on the plate and eaten as cold dishes. It is intended to taste the new, welcome the spring, and eat five spices to sterilize and drive away the cold.

These five spices are onions, garlic, leeks, brassica, and coriander, which are now onions, garlic, leeks, rape, and coriander. Even if the mixture tastes choking and is really spicy, Wang also fried all kinds of stir-fried vegetables, and the taste of pancake rolls is not so spicy.

In the end, Zhang Zhaohua couldn't wait to run outside, but was pulled back by the Wang family one by one, and a big carrot was stuffed in his mouth before he let go, which is the so-called "biting spring".