source: China News Network
Gu Zhenjun shows the Chinese word "Fu". Liu Yutao
China new net silver February 8 (Liu Yutao) coming on the Spring Festival (Liu Yutao), in the Gansu silver streets and lanes everywhere can be seen selling couplets, Fuke, door stickers. After 90 years, Gu Zhenjun is a sophomore in college. He made the first attempt to sell Spring Festival couplets this year. Although the cold wind was biting, he was standing on the street selling couplets. He said, "business is good. Although it is cold, it can earn more than 800 yuan a day, enough for one year's living expenses.
Gu Zhenjun said that selling couplets this year is mainly because of their deep interest in Chinese traditional culture, and at the same time to exercise their communicative ability. He said that the atmosphere of the new year is still very strong this year. Everyone is "rich and no money to buy a couplet home for the new year." Because it is the year of the serpent of the lunar calendar, the couplets of the word "snake" are more popular, such as "Tian Zheng Rui Xiang new year old, silver snake in early spring", "life is compared to the sea, the snake plate jade rabbit magpie" and so on.
Gu Zhenjun said that the sales feature of the Spring Festival couplets this year was that handwriting was faster than printing. Although the cost of handwriting is low, but the selling price is high, most of the customers think about "pairs".
tomorrow is new year's Eve. Gu Zhenjun said that he had to sell Spring Festival couplets until three tomorrow afternoon, when some shops were closed, some owners would buy some big couplets, "also my big customer."