The old man with his white papers
The Chinese have a special worship mentality for characters and consider them to be sacred. Paper with characters on it should not be thrown around. If you desecrate the paper, you will be condemned by heaven. Therefore, every family has a word paper basket. This is a small, broad-shouldered basket, bamboo gabions for the tire, the outside paste white paper, the front vertically paste a two-inch-wide red paper, written in four regular black letters: "respect the word paper." The paper basket is hung in an honored place, usually on the side of the gods and goddesses of the family in the hall. Every ten days and a half months, the word paper basket is almost full, the collection of the word paper to collect. This collection of paper surnamed Bai, adults and children call him Old Bai. He is old, but very good health. Full of white beard stubble, set off his face is unusually rosy. Eyes not blind, not deaf, walking, legs and feet are still very fast. He carried a large bamboo basket, pushing the door into the familiar family, to the hall to the word paper dumped in the bamboo basket, turn around and go, and did not alarm the master. Sometimes the owner is in the hall, but also talk, ask the old lady's illness is better, the young master should soon go to school it ......