Lee's Spring Festival custom

On the first day of the first month, the rooster crows, and people bake bamboo knots with fire under the steps of the hall, which is crisp and loud, pinning people's

On the first day of the first month, the rooster crows, and people bake bamboo knots with fire under the steps of the hall, which is crisp and loud, pinning people's desire to exorcise evil spirits. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a beast called Nian, which always came to hurt people and animals from New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month. It is afraid of fire, light and noise. When someone clicks a bamboo joint and makes a noise, it scares it away. Since then, people have followed suit and lit bamboo joints. Later, gunpowder was invented, and the roll paper was ignited for the tube, making a clicking sound. This is the gun, which is equipped with a reminder device.

Post Spring Festival couplets.

In ancient times, shentu and Lei Yu lived on Dushuo Mountain. There is a big peach tree on the hill. They examined hundreds of ghosts under peach trees and found that some ghosts were harmful to the people, so they tied them up and fed them to tigers. These ghosts are afraid of them and dare not hurt the people. These two towns are famous for their ghosts. When they spread to other places, people painted their images on two mahogany boards and stood on both sides of the gate to suppress evil spirits. People call this mahogany painting a symbol of peach.

/kloc-In the Five Dynasties of the 0/0 century, Meng Changjun, the Emperor of the Later Shu Dynasty, ordered the university students to change the portrait of Fu Tao into an inscription of peach wood. As a gift, he felt that the inscription was not good, so he wrote "Qing Yu in the New Year, FestivalNo". Changchun "outside the palace gate. Wang Anshi, Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, wrote an inscription: "Apart from firecrackers, when the spring breeze enters Tu Su from send warm, every family always changes new peaches into old ones."

Spread to the people and gradually developed, writing auspicious words with red paper instead of peach symbols has evolved into today's couplets.

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang built Jinling as his capital and ordered the Spring Festival couplets to be posted during the New Year. On one occasion, Zhu Yuanzhang personally visited the people and found that every family posted red couplets, but only one did not. He inquired clearly that this family was a butcher, illiterate and unable to find anyone to write couplets, so the door was still blank on New Year's Eve. Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote a couplet for him: "Split the road of life and death with both hands, and cut off right and wrong with one knife."

The news came out that the government has made continuous progress in writing Spring Festival couplets, and people have imitated them. Therefore, posting Spring Festival couplets has become not only a custom, but also a unique form of China literature and art.

New Year's Eve, Shousui, Lucky Money

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, propose a toast and have dinner together. Those families who can go home from other places usually get home before New Year's Eve, so the New Year's Eve is also called "reunion dinner".

When ancient people ate New Year's Eve, there was a burning stove on the table and a pot on it, in which meat and vegetables were cooked. This is the origin of hot pot. The whole family eats New Year's Eve dinner around the stove, so it is also called the stove, which means that life is thriving.

Later, on the basis of hot pot, dishes were added, and hot dishes and cold dishes were served. It doesn't matter whether other dishes are available or not, only chicken, fish and pears must be available, because chicken is homophonic with auspiciousness, fish and surplus, and pear is homophonic with profit. You must eat jiaozi for the New Year's Eve dinner. "Jiaozi" and "Jiaozi" are homophonic, indicating that the children's time has passed safely. After New Year's Eve, it will be the next year. In some places, jiaozi is called "flat food", which means to eat a meal outside with sugar in the stuffing, which means that life is sweet, and it means "getting rich" with a "coin" package and "thriving business" with a barley package.

In ancient times, in order to avoid the invasion of "Nian Beast", people lived in caves and ate New Year's Eve dinner around the stove. After eating, they all lived in a small talk and listened to Nian's sports. When the children want to cry, give them delicious food and fun until they are tired of sleeping and hand over the children. Giving children good food and fun has become giving money, that is, "lucky money or gambling". At the beginning, the amount of money given to the age was the sum of heaven+earth+age = age money, and later it was decided according to the relationship between relatives and friends.

Stick the word "Fu" upside down.

After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he traveled incognito on the fifteenth day of the first month of one year and came to a town. He saw many people get together to watch cartoons. Zhu Yuanzhang came over and saw a barefoot woman holding a big watermelon in the picture. After interrogation, he knew it was a joke about a woman with big feet in Huaixi.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw it and thought that his woman Ma Huanghou was also from Huaixi. I think people in this town are making fun of Ma Huanghou. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and ordered an investigation immediately after returning to the palace. See who painted this picture and who went to see it.

For those residents who did not participate in the laughter, a word of blessing was posted on their doorstep. Two days later, the sergeant took this as the basis and went to the family without the word "fu" to propose marriage. Who knows that after the officers and men posted the word "fu", the rest of the families posted the word "fu" themselves because they didn't know each other. The officers and men who arrested people can no longer tell the difference between those who have participated and those who have not taken to the streets. Zhu Yuanzhang was even more angry after hearing the news and ordered all the people in the town to be arrested. If we can't find them, they will all be beheaded.

Ma Huanghou heard that because of her injustice, she stated the benefits of her big feet to the emperor. She is big-footed, easy to walk and good at fighting, which helped the emperor lay a unified country. Instead of laughing at her, people praised her. Not only should not be punished, but should be praised.

Hearing this, the people who participated in the onlookers and made fun of each other automatically admitted their "sins", and the painters bravely took responsibility and didn't want to involve others.

Zhu Yuanzhang reflected on himself and went too far by relying on the imperial power. Because of the sincere support of the people, the world was at peace, which not only saved the people from sin, but also promoted the painter who made fun of his servants.

A word "happiness" is indeed a sign of "holding your position and enjoying happiness". Everyone is obsessed with blessing, but some people get misfortune because of blessing, and blessing and misfortune are intertwined.

Many years later, the original intention of sticking the word "avoid suspicion" has been forgotten by people and turned into a good wish of "blessing". Whenever there is a festival, you should stick blessings everywhere and wish you all the best.

When it comes to the word "fu", some people stick it forward, others stick it back, each with its own emphasis. The word "fu" is said to be smooth, while the word "fu" is said to be inverted.

Here's a story: it's about Gongwangfu in Qing Dynasty. One year, in order to please his master, the butler wrote a few auspicious words for people to stick on the door of the mansion.

An illiterate person posted his blessing upside down on the front door. Therefore, Fujin (wife), who reported the case, was very angry and ordered the person to be whipped, and the responsibility of the housekeeper was investigated. The housekeeper is a talkative person. He is afraid that everyone will pursue him and hurt himself. He quickly knelt down and stated, "I often hear people say that Prince Gong lives a long and happy life, with great blessings and great blessings. This is an auspicious sign. "

Hearing this, Fu Jin, Prince Gong, felt reasonable and thought, "No wonder passers-by say that Prince Gong is blessed. He has said auspicious words a thousand times, and there are more gold and silver. A slave without knowledge really can't think of such a trick! " So he gave fifty taels of silver to the housekeeper and fifty taels to the servant.

Later, the custom of posting the word "Fu" upside down spread from the official residence to people's homes. After posting it, a few words were written: "Blessed, blessed!" For good luck.