Eager to get the first calligraphy of the year
(Baonghean.vn) -Ho Chi Minh Square (Vinh City) at night is sparkling in electric lights, spring is getting warmer, at the end of the fountain there is a young teacher in a black ao dai and turban is scribbling lines of dragon and phoenix dancing, around everyone is admiring...
The young "teacher" was busy writing on a wooden tray surrounded by people waiting to ask for calligraphy. His friend who was mixing ink said: "The teacher" from Thanh Chuong was fond of calligraphy, and since childhood he had studied with the "old teacher" in the countryside. He graduated from a teacher training college but could not find a job, so his friends gathered together to go to Vinh city to write calligraphy. At first, few people were interested, but after that, seeing the young teacher writing with sharp and elegant calligraphy, many people came to "ask" for calligraphy.
The young "teacher" is writing calligraphy.
The young teacher confided: In the past, the elders taught that giving calligraphy from the first day of the Lunar New Year until the Lantern Festival, which is the 15th day of the first lunar month, is the best time, when the earth and sky are still filled with the sacred spring air. We have had months of hard work to create attractive calligraphy, but we do not write for money. Our people value words, so being given words makes me very happy. With the money people give us, we continue to buy wind paper and ink to write words.
Ms. Le Thi Minh is waiting to receive the words Phuc-Loc-Tho and confided: I receive the words to ask for good luck at the beginning of the new year, so don't say you're buying and selling the words, just receive the words and then pay the "teacher."
Van Truong
