Ten legends about the Spring Festival

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One of the legends of the Spring Festival: the legend of a mouse marrying a woman

? Rats marry women? Folk customs are very popular in our country. But, everywhere? Rats marry women? Life is different.

According to the folklore in Jiangnan, rats are harmful and unlucky, so they should be married off on New Year's Eve to ensure peace and good luck in the coming year. In some places in the suburbs of Shanghai, it is said that mice marry women on the 16th day of the first month. That night, every household fried sesame candy, which was a joyful candy for mice.

In the north, mice marry women on the night of the 25th day of the first month. That night, every household didn't light a lamp, and the whole family sat on the kang, eating flour in the dark without saying a word? Rat paw paw? 、? Scorpion tail? And fried soybeans. No lighting, no noise means to provide convenience for the mouse to marry a girl, for fear of disturbing the wedding ceremony. Eat? Rat paw paw? It means that people expect mice to get up early and get up early. Eat? Scorpion tail? That is to say, a mouse will not be hurt by scorpions when it marries a daughter out of the hole. Eating fried soybeans makes a crunching sound, as if setting off firecrackers for mice.

On the night when a mouse marries a woman, some places will be filled with candles in the corners and aisles, indicating that the road through which the mouse marries a woman is illuminated.

? Rats marry women? 、? Rats get married? Are New Year pictures and paper-cutting folk paintings in China? Mascot? Stick it on the wall and window during the Spring Festival. The New Year picture of "Mice Marry Women" shows a group of mice waving flags, playing umbrellas, beating gongs and trumpets, and carrying sedan chairs to welcome their families. Who is riding on toad's back? Groom? Wearing the official hat of the Qing dynasty, hand folding fan, staring at a big gold box, a greedy look. Just as these ugly people swaggered through the city, a rhubarb cat was waiting for them. A pair of rat brothers, one of whom has been caught by the cat's paw and bit the cat's mouth. At this point, sitting in a sedan chair? Bride? I was in tears when I learned that the end was coming. This New Year picture reflects people's distinct love and hate.

Legend of the Spring Festival II: The Legend of Creating Calendar in Ten Thousand Years

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young man named Wannian. Seeing that the festivals were chaotic at that time, he had an accurate plan. But he couldn't find a way to calculate the time. One day, he was tired of chopping wood up the mountain and sat in the shade to rest. The movement of the shadow inspired him. He designed a sundial to measure the time of the day. Later, inspired by the dripping spring water on the cliff, he began to make a five-layer clepsydra to calculate the time. Over time, he found that every 360 days, the four seasons would cycle once, and the length of the weather would be repeated.

At that time, the monarch was called Zu Ti, who was often troubled by the unpredictable weather. After ten thousand years of knowledge, he went to see the monarch with a sundial and a clepsydra, and explained to Zu Ti why the sun and the moon moved. Zu Ti rejoiced and felt right. So I left for ten thousand years and built the Sun and Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, as well as the sundial platform and the Leaky Pot Pavilion. I hope I can accurately measure the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the exact time in the morning and evening, and create a calendar to benefit people all over the world.

On one occasion, Zu Ti went to learn about the progress of the perpetual calendar. When he boarded the Sun and Moon Altar, he saw a poem carved on the stone wall next to the Temple of Heaven. Sunrise and sunset 360, start all over again. Vegetation is divided into four seasons, and there are twelve circles in a year. ? Knowing that the perpetual calendar was created, I personally boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit the perpetual calendar. Wan Nian pointed to the astronomical phenomena and said to Zu Ti:? It's been twelve months now, the old year has passed and the new year has passed. Please make a festival for the monarch. . Zu Yi said:? Spring is the beginning of a year, so let's call it Spring Festival. . It is said that this is the origin of the Spring Festival.

After years of long-term observation and careful calculation, he worked out an accurate solar calendar. When he showed his successor the solar calendar, he was covered with silver whiskers. The monarch was deeply moved. In order to commemorate the achievements of ten thousand years, he named the solar calendar? Perpetual calendar, sealing ten thousand years for the life of the sun, the moon and the moon. In the future, people will hang up the Shou Xingtu during the Chinese New Year, which is said to commemorate the venerable ten thousand years. In memory of him, it must start with? Year? .

The third legend of the Spring Festival:? Year? Beast legend

According to legend, there was a name in ancient China? Year? Monster, with tentacles on his head, is extremely fierce. ? Year? He lived under the sea for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people.

So every New Year's Eve, people outside the village help the old and the young and flee to the mountains to hide. Year? The harm of animals.

On New Year's Eve this year, people in Taohua Village were taking refuge in the mountains when an old beggar came from outside the village. He was leaning on crutches, carrying a bag on his arm, with elegant silver whiskers and staring at Matthew.

Some villagers sealed windows and locked doors, some packed their bags, some herded cattle and drove sheep, and people shouted boo everywhere, which was a scene of panic. At this time, who still has the mind to take care of this begging old man?

Only an old woman in the village east gave the old man something to eat and advised him to run up the mountain quickly? Year? Beast, the old man said with a smile, if my mother-in-law let me stay at home for one night, I will? Year? The beast drove away. ?

When the old woman looked at him carefully, she found that he was young, healthy, energetic and had an extraordinary world outlook. But she continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. My mother-in-law had no choice but to leave home and take refuge in the mountains. At midnight? Year? The beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and bright candles in the room. ? Year? The beast trembled and let out a long cry.

? Year? Glaring at her mother-in-law's house for a while, then barking at her. At the door, suddenly from the hospital? Bang, bang, bang explosion sound, year? Trembling all over, I dare not go any further.

So? Year? I am most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. ? Year? Scared and humiliated, fled in panic.

The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly.

Villagers flocked to the old woman's house, only to find red paper on her door and a pile of unburned bamboo in the yard? Hey? It exploded, and several red candles in the room were still glowing.

In order to celebrate the auspicious arrival, the villagers put on new clothes and hats one after another and went to relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew about it. Drive away? Year? The road of the beast. This custom is becoming more and more common.

The fourth legend of the Spring Festival: posting Spring Festival couplets and door gods

It is said that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the post-Shu period about 1000 years ago. In addition, according to records such as Jade Candle Collection and Yanjing Year, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call it? Fu Tao? .

In ancient China mythology, it is said that there is a ghost world, in which there is a mountain, a big peach tree covering 3,000 miles, and a golden rooster at the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Peach Tree District. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu. If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of Miscanthus and give it to the tiger. So all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. This kind of red board was later called. Fu Tao? . ( www.gs5000.cn )

In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. They also write couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and good luck, and stick them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.

In order to pray for the longevity of the family, people in some places still keep the habit of sticking up doors. It is said that there are two door gods posted on the gate, and all monsters will be afraid. In the folk, the door god is a symbol of justice and strength. The ancients thought that people with strange looks often had magical temperament and extraordinary skills. They are honest and kind, and it is their nature and responsibility to catch ghosts and demons. Zhong Kui, a ghost hunter who is highly regarded by people, is such a strange look. Therefore, the folk door gods are glaring and ferocious, holding all kinds of traditional weapons in their hands, ready to fight with ghosts who dare to come to the door. Because the doors of China's house are usually two opposite doors, the door gods are always paired. After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers.

The fifth legend of the Spring Festival: the story of Laba porridge

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people in China have the custom of eating Laba porridge. It is said that Laba porridge comes from India. The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, was originally the son of Sudoku king in northern India (now Nepal). He saw that all living beings were suffering from physical illness and death. He was dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmins at that time and gave up the throne and became a monk. After six years of asceticism, he became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In the past six years, I have only eaten one hemp and one meter a day. Later generations did not forget his sufferings and ate porridge as a souvenir on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. ? Rabbah? so this is it？ Buddha's Enlightenment Day? . Laba Festival poster Laba Festival advertisement Laba Festival hanging flag Laba Festival hanging porridge shop poster porridge shop advertisement Laba Festival custom Laba porridge poster advertisement Laba porridge tradition

? Rabbah? This is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before liberation, Buddhist temples all over the country held Buddhist bath meetings and chanted scriptures, and imitated the legendary story of a shepherdess offering chyle before Sakyamuni became a monk, making fragrant cereal porridge for the Buddha. Laba porridge was presented to disciples and kind men and women, and later became a folk custom. It is said that in some monasteries, before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, monks would hold alms bowls along the street and cook the collected rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other materials into Laba porridge and distribute it to the poor. Legend has it that eating it can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor call it? Buddha porridge? . In addition, it is said that there are leftovers in Tianning Temple, a famous temple in Hangzhou? Stack rice building? Monks usually dry leftovers every day, accumulate surplus grain for one year, and cook laba porridge for believers on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Fushou porridge Fude porridge? It means that eating it can increase happiness and prolong life.

There is also the legend of Laba porridge. When Zhu Yuanzhang was a child, his family was poor, and he often suffered from food shortage. One day, when he came back from herding cattle, he was hungry and suddenly saw a mouse hole in the corner. He wanted to catch mice to satisfy his hunger, but unexpectedly he took out glutinous rice, millet, soybeans, red beans, wheat grains and peanuts. He washed these miscellaneous grains, cooked them into porridge and had a hearty meal. Later, when he became an emperor, he was tired of eating delicacies all day. I suddenly remembered the past when I was a child, and ordered people to imitate it, and the ministers tasted it, which was wonderful. Because this day is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang called this porridge Laba porridge. Later, it spread to the people, and it followed.

Legend of Spring Festival (6): Legend of upside-down blessing

During the Spring Festival, every household should put large and small stickers on doors, walls and lintels? Fu? Words. Spring stickers? Fu? Chinese characters are a long-standing folk custom in China. According to Lu? /kloc-when I was 0/8 years old, I was in your hometown, in a shop, painting a door god peach symbol to welcome spring? ; ? Scholars, large and small, sweep the floor, clean up the house, change the door gods, hang Zhong Xu, nail peaches, stick spring cards, and worship ancestors? . ? Post a spring card? Is it written on red paper? Fu? Words.

? Fu? What is the current interpretation of this word? Happiness? And the past? Blessing? 、? Good luck. Spring stickers? Fu? Words, whether now or in the past, have pinned people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a better future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and desire, the people simply want it? Fu? Stick the word upside down to show? Happiness has declined. Blessing has arrived? . ? Fu? There is also a legend that the word is posted backwards among the people. Ming Taizu Zhang Zhu used it in those days? Fu? Remember this word, you can kill it at any time. In order to eliminate this disaster, kind Ma Huanghou asked all the families in the city to hang a sign on their doors before dawn? Fu? Words. Naturally, no one dared to go against Ma Huanghou's wishes, so they put it on the door? Fu? Words. There are illiterate families, but they actually let it go? Fu? The sticker is upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people to the streets to check and found that everyone posted it? Fu? Words, and handle? Fu? The sticker is upside down. When the emperor heard the news, he was furious and immediately ordered the body guard to cut down the house. When Ma Huanghou saw that things were not going well, he said to Zhu Yuanzhang. Your family knew about your visit today and deliberately reversed the word "fu", didn't they? Blessed? When the emperor heard the truth, he ordered his release, and a great disaster was finally eliminated. Since then, people have turned the word "Fu" upside down for good luck and in memory of Ma Huanghou.

Are there any generals among the people? Fu? Fine lines are made into various patterns, such as longevity, peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, etc. What did people have in the past? On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, everyone writes big characters? Say, Fu? Most of the words used to be handwritten, but now they are sold in markets and shops.

The seventh legend of the Spring Festival: the legend of not sleeping all the year round.

Thirty years old, common name? Endure for a year? . Why do you call it? Endure for a year? And then what? There is an interesting story among the people: in ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains. People call them? Year? . ? Year? Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, it only eats animals and birds and scales, and its taste changes every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk? Year? Color change. Slowly, people will master it? Year? It turns out that every 365 days, it rushes to the place where people live together to taste fresh food. The lingering time is after dark, when the rooster crows at dawn, it returns to the mountains. Is it accurate? Year? On the date of ravage, men and women will take this terrible night as an obstacle, called? Take a year off? Come up with a set? New year's pass? Every night, every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire, cleans the stove, then ties up all the chicken coops and cowsheds, then seals the door and hides in the house to eat? New Year's Eve? ; Because this dinner has ominous meaning, it is very rich. In addition to inviting the whole family to have dinner together to show a harmonious reunion, they will also worship their ancestors before eating and pray for their safe passage through the night. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and got up the courage to chat.

It's getting dark Year? Jumping out of the deep forest and touching into the village, I saw the doors of every household closed, sesame stalks piled in front of them, and no one was seen in the street. Turn around the middle of the night? Year? There is nothing, so I have to chew sesame stalks to satisfy my hunger. After a while, the rooster crowed, and these cruel and stupid monsters had to go home disgruntled. Get through it? Take a year off? People are overjoyed, thank the ancestors of heaven and earth for their blessing, and congratulate each other? Year? After eating, they opened the gate, set off firecrackers and met their neighbors and relatives to congratulate them. When people saw it, they bowed to each other and congratulated each other, glad that they were not eaten by Nian beast. After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast. On the night of the 30th, Nian beast suddenly jumped into a village. A village was almost eaten up by Nian beast, and only a pair of newly-married couples in red curtains were safe and sound. Some children lit a pile of bamboo to play in the yard, and the fire was red. After the bamboo burned? Hey? The ground exploded, and Nian beast moved here. He turned and ran away when he saw the fire. From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. At the end of each year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian Beasts dare not come again.

However, villagers in some places don't know that Nian beast is afraid of red and is often eaten by Nian beast. This incident later spread to the sky in Wei Zi. In order to save people, he is determined to destroy Nian beast. One year the beast came out, knocked it down with a fireball and chained it to a stone pillar with a thick chain. From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Zixing to come down to keep safe. This phenomenon is gradually passed down from generation to generation? Chinese New Year? And then what? Happy new year? The custom of.

Legends of Spring Festival (8): Legends of Spring Festival couplets

China ancient calligraphy? Year? The word is placed in the grain department, which means that the weather is good and the grain is abundant. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. So what? Year? It was expanded to the name of the year. Although there was a custom of Spring Festival in ancient China, it was not called Spring Festival at that time. Because the Spring Festival at that time refers to the 24 solar terms? The beginning of spring? .

The history of Spring Festival couplets. Wang Anshi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in Yuan Ri: firecrackers are one year old, and spring breeze brings warmth. Thousands of families always trade new peaches for new ones. As a unique literary form, Spring Festival couplets have a long history in China. It began in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has developed for more than a thousand years today.

As early as before the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a custom of hanging peach symbols around the gate every New Year. Fu Tao is a big board made of two pieces of peach wood, on which is written the legendary spirit descending? Divine path? And then what? Lei Yu? This name is used to exorcise evil spirits. This custom lasted for more than 1000 years. It was not until the Five Dynasties that people began to put couplets on mahogany boards instead of the names of gods. Despite historical records, Meng Changjun, the master of the later Shu Dynasty, wrote couplets on the bedroom door on New Year's Eve in 964? New Year's Day in Qing Yu, Cargeno. Changchun? This is China's earliest couplet. After the Song Dynasty, it has become quite common for people to hang Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, strongly advocated couplets. After he made his capital in Jinling (now Nanjing), he ordered ministers, officials and ordinary people to write a pair of couplets at home and put them on the doors on New Year's Eve. He toured himself, and the Egyptians went door to door to watch for fun. Scholars at that time also regarded couplets as elegant enjoyment, and writing Spring Festival couplets became a social fashion.

Legend of the Spring Festival 9: Legend of setting off firecrackers in the New Year

Is there one among the people in China? Open the door and set off firecrackers? That legend. When the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Firecrackers are also called? Explosion? 、? Firecrackers? 、? Firecrackers? . It originated very early and has a history of more than two thousand years. People think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment in festivals, and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

Collection of History of Jingchu and Sui Dynasty:? On the first day of the first month, roosters crowed and firecrackers were placed in front of the court to avoid evil spirits. ? This record shows that firecrackers were an acoustic tool to drive away plagues and evil spirits in ancient times, which made the custom of setting off firecrackers have a certain superstitious color from the beginning. According to Nerve, in ancient times, people camped through deep mountains and lit bonfires at night to keep warm the staple food and prevent wild animals from invading. There is an animal in the mountains that is not afraid of people or fire, and often steals food while people are unprepared. Folk Art New Year Pictures _00 13 Folk Art Design Materials Traditional New Year Pictures Calligraphy and Painting Art

In order to deal with this animal, people thought of setting off firecrackers in the fire and using the violent sound of bamboo to drive it away. What are the names of the animals mentioned here? Shan Sao? . The ancients said that it can make people cold and hot, and it is the ghost that makes people get cold and hot, scaring away the mountains, that is, expelling evil spirits, so as to be auspicious and safe.

It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, there were plagues everywhere. A man named Li Tian put saltpeter in a bamboo tube and lit it to make it emit louder sound and stronger smoke. As a result, the miasma in Shan Lan was dispelled and the epidemic was stopped. This is the earliest prototype of firecrackers. After gunpowder appeared, people filled bamboo tubes with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal and burned them, resulting in? Explosion? . In the song dynasty, people began to make programming strings with paper tubes and hemp sticks wrapped in gunpowder? Knitting guns? (firecrackers). Setting off firecrackers has become an entertainment activity with national characteristics. People not only set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year in the Spring Festival, but also set off firecrackers to celebrate major festivals and happy events, such as Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, marriage, building houses and opening businesses.

The tenth legend of the Spring Festival: the legend of the god of wealth in the Spring Festival

According to folklore, the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the god of wealth. After the first day of the first month, you will receive the god of wealth. On the night before God of Wealth's birthday, every family held a banquet to celebrate God of Wealth. There are many legends about the god of wealth:

During the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing was very rich. According to folklore, he was born a god of wealth. He happened to be born on the fifth day of the first month, so people regard him as a god of wealth. After the sacrifice to Beijing was demoted, the people converted to the god of wealth. At that time, the national surname of the Song Dynasty was Zhao, and it was changed to worship. The Xuan altar is shaped like the bottom of a pot, holding Strafe in his hand and riding Hei Hu, which is very powerful.

Except that Zhao Xuantan is addressed as? Is it the god of wealth? There are people outside? Partial god of wealth? Five gods of wealth, God of wealth? Fortune Star and Jun? Wu Caishen? Guan's statement.