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Sending Good Wishes to Welcome the New Year, Calligraphers Write and Give “福” (Blessing)!

pub:Zhejiang Library  time:2019/01/29  count:76

"The people are living a life of prosperity and happiness, and the pig is playing under an elegant arch to welcome another year of abundance." With the footsteps of the New Year near, on January 29, 2019, from 9:30 am to 11:30 am, we specially invited Wang Xiaoyong, the president of the Hangzhou Calligraphers Association, and the members Bian Hong, Zhao Li and Shen Su’an to our library to welcome the New Year by writing and disseminating “福” (a Chinese character meaning Blessing)to everyone.

At the scene, the calligrapher volunteers improvised and splashed ink, and wrote the Spring Festival couplets with passionate and beautiful blessings. The red spring couplets and the thick ink fragrance expressed the readers’ expectation and wish for a better life.

Put on New Year’s new clothes, hang the red lanterns, sticking Spring Festival couplets, and paste “福” to decorate the house... However, as time goes, it seems that the New Year is getting no more interesting. Every day is like New Year, and New Year is just turning flavorless. As a symbol of the New Year, the “福” blessings and the Spring Festival couplets are still there every year, but often shown in printed works. They have lost their original significance. We hope that the readers will bring home the blessings and the Spring Festival couples handwritten by the calligraphers, and at the same time, bring this love and culture home.