Pasting New Year Prints

貼年畫(huà)

The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of board carvings, New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The most famous ones are Door Gods, Surplus Year after Year, Three Gods of Blessing, Salary and Longevity, An Abundant Harvest of Crops, Thriving Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Taohuawu of Suzhou, Yangliuqing of Tianjin, Wuqiang of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is still kept in rural China, while it is seldom followed in cities.

貼年畫(huà)的風(fēng)俗源自于把房子外面的門上貼門神的傳統(tǒng)。隨著木質(zhì)雕刻品的出現(xiàn)，年畫(huà)包含了更廣泛的主題，最出名的就是門神，三大神-福神薪神和壽神，莊稼豐收，家畜興旺，和慶祝春節(jié)。年畫(huà)的四大產(chǎn)地分別是蘇州桃花塢，天津楊柳青，河北武強(qiáng)和山東濰坊。現(xiàn)在中國(guó)農(nóng)村仍然保持著貼年畫(huà)的傳統(tǒng)，而在城市里很少有人貼年畫(huà)。

新春伊始，第一件事便是貼門神、對(duì)聯(lián)。 每當(dāng)大年三十日（或二十九），家家戶戶都紛紛上街購(gòu)買春聯(lián)，有雅興者自己也鋪紙潑墨揮春，將宅子里里外外的門戶裝點(diǎn)一新。春聯(lián)也叫門對(duì)、春貼、對(duì)聯(lián)、對(duì)子、桃符等。它以工整、對(duì)偶、簡(jiǎn)潔、精巧的文字描繪時(shí)代背景，抒發(fā)美好愿望，是中國(guó)特有的文學(xué)形式。

Pasting Spring Couplets

貼春聯(lián)

The Spring Couplet, also called couplet and a pair of antithetical phrases, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.

春聯(lián)也被稱為和對(duì)聯(lián)對(duì)立的一對(duì)短語(yǔ)，在中國(guó)是一種特殊的文學(xué)形式。春聯(lián)是由貼在門口兩側(cè)兩組對(duì)立的句子組成，在門上面的橫批通常是一個(gè)吉祥的短語(yǔ)。貼在門右側(cè)的句子被稱作對(duì)聯(lián)的上聯(lián)，左側(cè)的為下聯(lián)。除夕那天，每家都會(huì)在門上貼上紅紙寫(xiě)的春聯(lián)，傳遞出節(jié)日喜慶和熱鬧的氣氛。在過(guò)去，中國(guó)人通常用毛筆自己寫(xiě)春聯(lián)或者請(qǐng)別人寫(xiě)春聯(lián)，而現(xiàn)在，人們普遍在市場(chǎng)上買印刷好的春聯(lián)。

Pasting New Year Prints

貼年畫(huà)

The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of board carvings, New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The most famous ones are Door Gods, Surplus Year after Year, Three Gods of Blessing, Salary and Longevity, An Abundant Harvest of Crops, Thriving Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Taohuawu of Suzhou, Yangliuqing of Tianjin, Wuqiang of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is still kept in rural China, while it is seldom followed in cities.

貼年畫(huà)的風(fēng)俗源自于把房子外面的門上貼門神的傳統(tǒng)。隨著木質(zhì)雕刻品的出現(xiàn)，年畫(huà)包含了更廣泛的主題，最出名的就是門神，三大神-福神薪神和壽神，莊稼豐收，家畜興旺，和慶祝春節(jié)。年畫(huà)的四大產(chǎn)地分別是蘇州桃花塢，天津楊柳青，河北武強(qiáng)和山東濰坊。現(xiàn)在中國(guó)農(nóng)村仍然保持著貼年畫(huà)的傳統(tǒng)，而在城市里很少有人貼年畫(huà)。

新春伊始，第一件事便是貼門神、對(duì)聯(lián)。 每當(dāng)大年三十日（或二十九），家家戶戶都紛紛上街購(gòu)買春聯(lián)，有雅興者自己也鋪紙潑墨揮春，將宅子里里外外的門戶裝點(diǎn)一新。春聯(lián)也叫門對(duì)、春貼、對(duì)聯(lián)、對(duì)子、桃符等。它以工整、對(duì)偶、簡(jiǎn)潔、精巧的文字描繪時(shí)代背景，抒發(fā)美好愿望，是中國(guó)特有的文學(xué)形式。

Pasting Spring Couplets

貼春聯(lián)

The Spring Couplet, also called couplet and a pair of antithetical phrases, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.

春聯(lián)也被稱為和對(duì)聯(lián)對(duì)立的一對(duì)短語(yǔ)，在中國(guó)是一種特殊的文學(xué)形式。春聯(lián)是由貼在門口兩側(cè)兩組對(duì)立的句子組成，在門上面的橫批通常是一個(gè)吉祥的短語(yǔ)。貼在門右側(cè)的句子被稱作對(duì)聯(lián)的上聯(lián)，左側(cè)的為下聯(lián)。除夕那天，每家都會(huì)在門上貼上紅紙寫(xiě)的春聯(lián)，傳遞出節(jié)日喜慶和熱鬧的氣氛。在過(guò)去，中國(guó)人通常用毛筆自己寫(xiě)春聯(lián)或者請(qǐng)別人寫(xiě)春聯(lián)，而現(xiàn)在，人們普遍在市場(chǎng)上買印刷好的春聯(lián)。