On the morning of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Pengpeng stood at the door of Zhang Zhong's study. She was originally watching cartoons downstairs, but after watching them for a while she felt they were not interesting, so she went upstairs to find her father.
Zhang Zhong was writing couplets for the New Year. After seeing Peng Peng, he put away the last stroke, put down the pen, and said with a smile, "Dad is writing couplets. Aren't you watching cartoons?"
"Watching TV all the time is bad for your eyes." Pengpeng said solemnly.
In fact, she just didn't have any new cartoons to watch and felt bored. As for her eyes, how could she have such awareness?
"That's right. From now on, you can only watch TV for a maximum of twenty minutes a day." Zhang Zhong said.
Hearing Zhang Zhong's words, Pengpeng's tone suddenly changed, "That's not okay, it's still okay to watch it for an hour."
Zhang Zhong smiled, took another piece of paper, and prepared to continue writing.
Pengpeng came over, looked at the couplets that had been written and were being left to dry, and read the words on them: "The sun shines on the pond, the flowers... the flowers... I don't recognize the last two words."
"The sun shines on the flat pond and the flowers move with energy, the energy with anger, the movement with movement."
"Dad, did you write the wrong word?" Pengpeng pointed to the last two words and said, "The word "angry" is not written like this. There is no rice at the bottom. The word "moving" is next to the word "cloud", I remember that."
"Dad did not make a mistake. This is Traditional Chinese."
Pengpeng nodded, "Oh, it turns out there is a rice underneath the traditional Chinese character for "angry"."
She looked at the lower couplet again, but found that she didn't recognize a single word.
Zhang Zhong looked at her scratching her head and scratched her head, and read the second couplet with a smile, "The birds are singing softly in the distant trees hidden in the clouds."
“Are these all traditional Chinese characters?”
"They are all, but the simplified and traditional Chinese versions of Zang and Rou are the same."
"Dad, can I write a couplet and stick it on my studio door?" Pengpeng asked.
"Of course." Zhang Zhong nodded, "What do you want to write?"
"Dad, what do you think is good to write? I don't know how to write couplets."
Zhang Zhong thought for a moment, then picked up a pen and wrote two sentences on the paper: One Two Thirty Four Five, Lu Qi Eighteen Nine Shi.
"Oh, I know this. They are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 90. They are all traditional Chinese characters, right?" Peng Peng said excitedly. She had learned this before.
Zhang Zhong shook his head, "These are not traditional Chinese characters."
"Isn't it?" Pengpeng asked doubtfully.
"Well, no, these are capital letters, and they are usually written like this when keeping accounts."
The reason why Zhang Zhong wrote these two sentences is because they just talked about traditional Chinese characters, so he extended them by the way.
Many people make mistakes in traditional Chinese characters, the most typical of which are numbers.
Some people who don't know much about it but want to write Traditional Chinese will always write Traditional Chinese with numbers from one to ten as the above.
For example, the four words Grandpa Bi gave to Pan Xiaoting were: Queen of Nine Balls.
He wrote "Queen of Nine Balls" and suddenly made a joke because he wrote two wrong words among the four words.
There are two characters in the traditional Chinese characters of "hou", which are used as directional words. For example, " later" is written as "后" when "later" comes later. Queen and Queen of Heaven are written as "后", and the traditional Chinese characters are the same as "Jian" characters.
There are many situations like the last one where one simplified character versus many traditional characters, such as watch, watch, appearance.
Ugly, ugly, Zi Chou Yin Mao.
Inside, outside and inside are different, mileage.
There are also some differences. Traditional and simplified Chinese have three writing methods that are more likely to be confused, such as history and calendar.
Many people may have seen the way history is written, and then look at the calendar, and feel that the latter way of writing is wrong.
Not to mention ordinary people, I am afraid that even those Traditional Chinese converters on the Internet will make mistakes. Of course, it is also because the Traditional Chinese converters on the Internet cannot understand these things, so ordinary people can easily be misled, even if they clearly use Traditional Chinese converters to convert Why is it wrong when it comes out?
Zhang Zhong did not explain these traditional Chinese characters to Peng Peng in detail. He just wanted to give Peng Peng an impression. If she was interested in the future, Zhang Zhong would naturally be willing to talk to him more. But if Peng Peng didn’t want to know, Zhang Zhong would not I won’t force it. Even if you don’t know something like this, it doesn’t matter.
Pengpeng took the brush and began to write her own couplets.
After writing it several times, I finally came up with one that I was quite satisfied with. At least it looked straight and not as crooked as before.
In fact, Pengpeng has some foundation. Not only did she learn to draw, Zhang Zhong would sometimes take her to practice calligraphy, so that she would not be unable to write at all.
After she finished writing, she clamored to stick the door couplet on the door, and Zhang Zhong obeyed her and helped her stick the door couplet on the door of her studio.
Although it’s not the Spring Festival yet, it doesn’t matter if I post it in advance.
According to my father, a long time ago, many families liked to put up door couplets on the 29th of the Lunar New Year. There is an advantage to posting door couplets early, that is, debt collectors will not come in to ask for money after seeing the door couplets.
After the door couplet was posted, Pengpeng stood at the door of the studio and admired it for a long time. After all, this was the first time in her life that she had posted a door couplet written by herself, so she must have been very excited.
Zhang Zhong could even imagine that when Liu Feng and the others came to visit tomorrow night, Pengpeng would probably drag her little sister Liu Minya to the door of the studio, then pat her chest with great pride and say: How about it, I wrote this couplet myself. Oh.
Maybe it will trigger another wave of "comparison". If Liu Minya can still remember this incident next year, then her door will also have a door couplet written by herself.
These two girls are always competing with each other.
Zhang Zhong asked Pengpeng to stay at the door and admire himself. He went back to the study to continue writing the couplets. He would go to Xu Yuhan's house in a while. As his last visit this year, he also sent the couplets there.
…
Since the morning of New Year's Eve, Zhang Zhong's cell phone has not stopped, and all kinds of blessing text messages have been pouring out.
What surprised Zhang Zhong the most was that Affleck and Llorente actually sent him blessings via WeChat.
Affleck's blessing is relatively simple, translated into one sentence: pz, I wish you a happy Spring Festival.
Llorente's blessing message followed his usual chatty style, and he sent a long paragraph.
“Pz, the happiest thing this year is getting to know you (that’s how you count dates). Although it’s only been a few months since we met, I feel like we’ve known each other for centuries. I sent this to you before going to bed. In this paragraph, I will go to Chinatown to participate in the Spring Festival event tomorrow morning. I heard it is very lively, and I am looking forward to it now. I heard that next year is the Year of the Tiger, which sounds awesome. I will also start to lose weight next year. Thank you for your advice. The figure is the same..."
Llorente's blessings even told Zhang Zhong in detail about his weight loss plan...