The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation and the oldest traditional festival. It has profound cultural heritage and rich folk connotations. These are inexhaustible spiritual sources when creating handwritten newspapers.
Set out to make a handwritten newspaper. This handwritten newspaper should be both beautiful and contain traditional charm. It should be about the Spring Festival. In this process, we should not just stay on the surface of painting techniques, but also need to deeply understand the historical context of the cultural symbol of the Spring Festival, as well as its spiritual essence.
This handwritten newspaper is about the Spring Festival. It must have both academic rigor and artistic beauty. This article will systematically analyze it for you from three dimensions. One of these three dimensions is the research on the origin of the festival, the other is the folk etiquette norms, and the cultural symbols of visual elements.
🎋 Tracing its origins and correcting its name: the historical evolution and core of festival customs of the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival, formerly known as the "Yuan Day" and the "New Year's Day", has a profound historical and cultural context in its origin.
It is not a single celebration that only occurs on a specific day, but has gradually evolved through the ancient New Year prayers and sacrifices. It is the product of the mutual resonance between human and natural rhythms under the conditions of agricultural civilization.
After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promulgated the "Taichu Calendar", the first day of the first lunar month was established as the beginning of one year. From then on, this time node was fixed and has continued for more than two thousand years.
Regarding the content arrangement of the handwritten newspaper, we can briefly examine the evolution of the word "Spring Festival" in the beginning. That is, it was only after the Revolution of 1911 that January 1st of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month was officially determined as the Spring Festival.
This information introduction, called "historical evolution," can lay a solid "academic" tone for the entire handwritten newspaper. It is different from ordinary holiday blessings and can also demonstrate the authority and depth of knowledge.
🏮Rituals and Symbols: Visual Transformation of Spring Festival Folk Etiquette
The drawing of handwritten newspapers is actually the process of visualizing abstract folk etiquette norms. This process is not a simple matter of commas. It has the unique requirement of commas. Commas need to be carefully crafted. Use commas cleverly. Be careful about drawing commas. Finally, a distinctive handwritten period report is presented.
Take common lanterns and firecrackers as examples. They are not just decorations. They are the kind of cultural symbols with specific forms.
The lantern, which originated in the Western Han Dynasty, was originally used for lighting. Later it evolved into a symbol of reunion and celebration. It has a red "clothing". This "clothing" comes from the worship of the sun and fire, and also means to ward off evil spirits and bring good fortune.
The "Ting Liao" related to the "Chinese New Year" legend is related to the origin of firecrackers. Initially, bamboo poles were burned to make crackling sounds to drive away mandrills and ghosts. After that, after the invention of gunpowder, it gradually evolved into its current form.
When doing the act of drawing, if you can understand the hidden ritual processes behind these utensils, as well as the emotional sustenance of the spirit, then you can make the lines presented in your pen have more powerful vitality.
For example, when drawing a lantern, you can focus on depicting its tassels and skeleton, which imply solemnity and delicacy; when drawing firecrackers, you can use red as the background color and embellished with golden sparks, thereby conveying the warm and hopeful value of the times.
🏔 Space and color: differences in regional customs and cultural spiritual core
For an excellent Spring Festival handwritten newspaper, its layout design should demonstrate the aesthetic principle of "sparse but airtight" and should also accommodate the wide range of regional differences in customs.
China has a vast territory. In the north, there is the joy of putting up window grilles and building snowmen, while in the south, there is the waterside sentiment of dragon and lion dances and New Year celebrations.
In terms of layout, these elements can be boldly integrated.
For example, on the upper left side of the handwritten newspaper, a vermilion-colored gate of a northern courtyard is painted with simple brushstrokes. On the door are portraits of Qin Qiong and Jingde, the door gods; in the lower right corner, a few kumquats growing in the south are embellished, which means "good luck and good fortune."
This kind of juxtaposition in space not only enriches the level of the picture, but also more profoundly reflects the inclusiveness and diversity of the Spring Festival as a whole Chinese national cultural community.
In the use of color, red should be the main tone, supplemented by gold, cyan, green and other colors.
Red, which symbolizes auspiciousness, enthusiasm and life, is the most orthodox color of the Spring Festival in traditional culture; gold represents wealth and glory; cyan can balance the vision and prevent colors from being too hot, just like the "color paintings" in traditional architecture. There is calmness in the splendor, which embodies the core of the cultural spirit, that is, not losing control during celebrations, and pursuing harmony during times of enthusiasm.
📜 Text and inheritance: The value connotation of the times and contemporary inheritance innovation
The core of handwritten newspapers lies in "text".
In the reserved text typesetting area, the written content should avoid empty clichés and pursue rigorous expressions of literary and historical textual research.
You can select the description of year-end sacrifices in the "Book of Rites·Yue Ling", or quote the verse from Wang Anshi's "Yuan Ri" that "the year is gone with the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu", and briefly explain the formula and drinking customs of "Tusu Wine" (from childhood to adulthood, it has the meaning of the rising sun in the east).
The implantation of these contents not only frees up the page space, but also enhances and enhances the cultural heritage of the entire handwritten newspaper.
At the same time, we should also think about the contemporary inheritance and innovation of the Spring Festival.
At present, in addition to the traditional New Year greetings and staying up late, there are also new New Year customs such as families sitting around watching the Spring Festival Gala, and sharing New Year's Eve dinner through short videos.
At the end of the article, it can be discussed in a dialectical way how these new forms carry the ancient core content of reunion, thereby achieving a progressive state of gradually deepening from tradition to modernity, making the handwritten newspaper not only a decorative item for the festival, but also a small research report on how the Spring Festival shows its vitality in contemporary society.
Through such solid research measures and careful design actions, what you have created is no longer just a pictorial, but a cultural work that carries the orthodox characteristics of Chinese civilization.
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