2024-01-02 08:05:57
The pace of time never changes, but people always say it gets shorter every year. Maybe it’s because time becomes more and more important every year, or because unknowingly, we have changed from people who are waiting for the taste of the New Year to people who are busy making the taste of the New Year.It’s the end of the year, and if you want to choose a form to contain every Chinese family’s belief in the coming year, Mark Home Furnishings believes that couplets may be able to take on this important task.
“The beauty of the new, the poetry of the home” is the Spring Festival aesthetics unique to the Chinese. It is a major ceremony related to the handover of time – when the faded old time is repainted, the ticket to a new spring also arrives.
The beauty of couplets and the ever-evolving living room culture
Couplets are an art that is appreciated by both refined and popular people. They contain a kind of symmetrical beauty. Whether they are peach charms in the past or paper couplets today, they give people a beautiful image and play a role in room decoration. Home is a person’s first space, and the furnishings at home are a reflection of personal artistic aesthetics. Couplets are self-expression externalized in the living space. Different life stages, life moods, life expectations, and ideological ambitions have different couplets that suit them. choose. People pay more and more attention to the cultural connotation of New Year decorations and pursue the consistency of aesthetic quality, life situation and festival atmosphere. Couplings convey the truth, and couplings can educate people. In 2006, the State Council of China listed the custom of couplets in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
How beautiful are the traditional intangible cultural heritage couplets?
Couplets possess the beauty of time: Thousands of households always replace old charms with new ones. Every time couplets are mentioned and paid attention to, they represent the end and beginning of a year. Chinese people’s life, with the fading and renewing of Chinese red and ink on the door of every home, completes the rotation of time and the renewal of the four seasons; it also has the beauty of ritual: laying out red paper, grinding fine carbon ink , inviting calligraphy artists to write the most beautiful blessings and prayers for the coming year into couplets and post them in front of the hall. Regardless of region, wealth or personality, the rituals unique to the Spring Festival are the Chinese people’s unanimous yearning for home and beauty; they also have spiritual beauty: the introverted Chinese people combine their love for their home country, their expectations for the four seasons, and the blessings of their relatives into Combined with the zodiac culture of the Year of the Dragon, condensed into a couplet, it is created as a spiritual aesthetic belonging to a home. Finally, the couplets also have the beauty of harmony: the template and form of the couplets are symmetrical left and right, horizontally centered, parallel to each other, and symmetrical in words, which is the beauty of harmony in the traditional aesthetic system. Among Chinese people, Chinese families, and the art of lifestyle, harmony is a ubiquitous aesthetic principle.
Created by artist Wang Luxiang
First couplet: Mr. Long travels with snow to wish for a prosperous year
Second line: Swallow knows his old home because of the wind
Horizontal batch: Longyin Hanhai
We are about to usher in the Year of the Dragon, and the dragon has been regarded as a symbol of auspiciousness in China since ancient times, representing the beautiful meaning of good weather and good harvests. Dragon Lord, the god in charge of rain and snow, walks in the auspicious snow, which heralds the coming of a good harvest. Swallows, migratory birds flying south, use the power of the wind to accurately find last year’s nest, symbolizing attachment to their homeland and expectations for new life. The wind brings the message of spring, as well as hope and warmth. Poetically depicting the magic of nature and the vitality of life, it is full of heroic and magnificent momentum, awakening expectations and confidence in the future.
The Artistic Charm of Famous Celebrities’ Blessings and Couplets
Time flies and the end of the year is approaching. Marker Home Furnishing joins hands with artists Wang Luxiang and Ma Defan to use couplets as a medium to start a dialogue about art and life. Empower homes through artistic aesthetics and promote the beauty of traditional culture. Starting from a couplet that is rich in artistic heritage and can express inner self-cultivation and embracement, we can travel through the long river of ancient and modern cultural contexts and fully appreciate the spiritual enjoyment that traditional culture brings to us in modern life. Artist Wang Luxiang said, “I personally like couplets because they express the beauty of the highest form of Chinese characters. The content may be solemn or elegant. The writer uses this to place his arms, and his embrace and cultivation can be seen in the numbers. A good couplet can be Light up the humble room, illuminate the mountains and rivers, be honest and stubborn, encourage the cowardly, gather people together, hang in one room. It can become the focus.”
Created by artist Ma Defan.
A gift to welcome the Spring Festival, the diverse energy of couplets
Couplets inherit the millennium culture of calligraphy and have gone through the evolution of seal script, official script and regular script. They show distinctive beauty of lines and artistic conception, endow the indoor space with traditional cultural spirit and connotation, and enhance the overall cultural and artistic atmosphere. It achieves the unification of space and people’s aesthetic taste while inheriting Chinese culture. The couplets created by Mark Home Furnishing and artists Wang Luxiang and Ma Defan are all produced using exquisite printmaking techniques, rendered using inks, dyes, paper and fabrics to restore the texture of the original works as much as possible. They have the unique artistic language of printmaking and are therefore different. For prints, they are classified as art investment collections.
Carefully choose a pair of Spring Festival couplets, face the spring, and your family will be filled with new wishes. On the occasion of this New Year, Marker Home sincerely invites you to appreciate the unique beauty of famous couplets. Through the eyes of art, feel the perfect blend of tradition and modernity, and jointly open a new year full of poetry and cultural heritage. In the future, we will join hands with more artists, celebrities, and stars to continue to present you with more cultural and artistic feasts, turning your home into a happy art palace to welcome the arrival of the New Year in the Year of the Dragon.
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