Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and every Spring Festival, some politicians on the island will inevitably take a "popularity test". For example, write a vice spring couplet. As a traditional custom shared by Chinese people on both sides of the Strait, writing Spring Festival couplets and sticking Spring Festival couplets during the New Year is not to be underestimated by politicians on the island-distributing Spring Festival couplets can penetrate the streets and have a canvassing effect. Whether the people are rushing to get it, you can see that the popularity of politicians is not booming.
KMT spokesperson Hong Mengkai introduced the Korean Yu Spring Festival couplets
Now the most popular is Kaohsiung Mayor Han Han Yu. His Spring Festival couplets were called "Taiwan's most popular New Year souvenirs" by the island media. Not only did Kaohsiung citizens line up to receive them, KMT spokesperson Hong Mengkai brought the Spring Festival couplets to Tamsui as a gift. Hong Mengkai said that this was his "exclusive authorization from Kaohsiung City" to make this "Gong Xi Fa Cai" printed with the cartoon image of Han Yu Yu. Unexpectedly, the effect was better than expected.
South Korea is currently in the limelight. The KMT leveraged the "Korean Wave" to boost public support. The effect of this move seems to be worth looking forward to. Although Han Guoyu is the mayor of Kaohsiung, outside of Kaohsiung, there are a lot of Korean fans and their enthusiasm is also very high. Hong Mengkai distributed the "Gong Xi Fa Cai" printed with Han Yu Yu's image in Danshui, and the people who came to receive it had a long queue.
Previously, the handwritten Spring Festival couplets of former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou was also a "hot commodity." Ma Ying-jeou posted a video on Facebook on the 19th, saying that he would write Spring Festival couplets at the end of the year to welcome the new year, and his head was almost bald after using the brush for 20 years, so he had to "work for a pen", so he disguised himself as a one-day clerk "Ma" Big Nine". In the comment area, Ma Ying-jeou announced the location of the Spring Festival couplets on the island of Taiwan. His handwritten book "Send the horses from all over the world to the wind, and greet the canopy from all directions", triggered an upsurge of requests from the public. The first batch of 100,000 Spring Festival couplets for the Year of the Pig was sold out on the first day of delivery, and the total number of copies has been printed to 250,000.
In contrast, Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe’s Spring Festival couplets are somewhat "dimmed". On the 22nd, the Taipei City Government prepared 4,000 copies for citizens to obtain, but the crowds in the queue have been sparse. By 4 pm, there are still more than a hundred copies of Spring Festival couplets. According to the Taipei City Government, the deadline for the distribution of 4000 copies will be available to the public these days. Although "selling is not smooth", Ke Wenzhe has always attached great importance to the creation of Spring Festival couplets, and even "excessively". During the Chinese New Year last year, Ke Wenzhe posted a video titled "New Year Test" on social media, as well as learning to write Vietnamese and Scene of Thai Spring Festival couplets. However, even though Ke Wenzhe’s Spring Festival couplets frequently appeared, from last year to this year, his Spring Festival couplets were not very popular with the public and their popularity was rather low.
However, Ke Wenzhe can still be regarded as "comparatively inadequate, and more than inferior". After all, Tsai Ing-wen's Spring Festival couplets have been "ridiculed by the crowd" in recent years. Unlike Ma Ying-jeou, who has a profound traditional cultural heritage and extremely neat calligraphy, Tsai Ing-wen's Spring Festival couplets have always been written by ghosts. Politicians often need to draw a pen, and the writing is not good. The embarrassment of finding a "pen" should be hidden and should not be "show off". But Tsai Ing-wen not only praised Yang Shuwan, one of the ghostwriters, on social media, "She is my right-hand man. She has been engaged in calligraphy for 20 years. Block letters, Xingkai, cursive script, and official script are not as rare to her"; and the content of her "Spring Festival couplets" is really mysterious and difficult to understand. So her couplet can be said to have been written out, and she was complained about.
In 2017, Tsai Ing-wen's first year after taking office, her Spring Festival couplets were "Self-Running Happy New Year", and the second year was "All things come to spring, happiness and happiness". "Self-Ranking" has become a stalk of young people in Taiwan and is included in the PTT Village Encyclopedia. "Self-Rising" triggered intense discussions in the cultural circles on the island. Many scholars, including the director of the Taiwan Literature Museum Liao Zhenfu, believe that the law of disqualification should be "free and free" from a flat point of view. The Tsai Ing-wen authorities immediately denied this and insisted on defending "self-running". The Taiwan Institute of Education even wanted to include "self-running" in the Chinese dictionary of the "Ministry of Education", and was immediately re-edited by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. The editorial team vetoed it and received a lot of criticism. Netizens who oppose Tsai Ing-wen call out, it is better to write "resign from stage". In 2018, "All things come in spring, happiness and good together" were criticized by the people in Taiwan as "fortunately" for the first two characters in the Spring Festival couplets-coincidentally, at the same time, Her approval rating fell below 30%.
Currently, Tsai Ing-wen’s approval rate is only 19%. Even if it is a pro-green polling agency, the survey’s approval rate is only 24.3%, which is a record low for Tsai’s reputation since he was elected. Tsai Ing-wen may have been ridiculed, or it may be that he didn't care about the Spring Festival couplets at all. This year, he no longer quoted verses and returned to the ordinary four words-"Congratulations on the New Year." At the press conference where the Spring Festival couplets were announced, Zhang Wenlan, director of the Public Relations Office of the Tsai Ing-wen Office, was asked by reporters why this year's Spring Festival couplets did not follow the literary style, but the traditional route. Zhang Wenlan said that the characters of the New Year couplets are different from year to year. Congratulations to the New Year is a traditional classic, and the main reason is to convey blessings. This answer can be said to be "equivalent to no answer."
In fact, the public knows how things are going. Han Yu firmly supports the "92 Consensus" and pragmatically put forward that "goods can be sold, people can come in, and Kaohsiung will make a fortune." Now he, his wife Li Jiafen, and daughter Han Bing's every move has been exposed by media tracking records. Wherever Hanguo Yu went, there were huge crowds of people, loud voices, and welcomed by the people. Han Yu's Spring Festival couplets are not even a traditional handwritten copy, but simple, with four characters printed with a cartoon image of his bald head-Gong Xi Fa Cai. This is also in line with his pragmatic governance philosophy and attitude, and it is natural to be welcomed. Regardless of whether Tsai Ing-wen's posture was stern, or simply used the simplest "Congratulations on the New Year" to deal with things. She has never given a satisfactory answer to the issue of cross-strait relations, and has never considered the true demands of the people on the island. Now, for her, it is really "the new year is approaching". In the popular test of sending Spring Festival couplets, Who loses and who wins is clear at a glance.
