What is the name of the small paper-cut hanging on the door in Shandong? There is a row hanging above the door.

What you said should be "hanging money"/"dropping money"!

During the Spring Festival, in towns and villages in China, people like to put a row of colorful "hanging money" on their doorsteps. Hanging money is engraved with auspicious patterns and words, dancing with the wind and looking good; Complement each other with the Spring Festival couplets, showing a strong local flavor and a festive scene of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

The folk custom of "hanging money" originated from "success" in Tang and Song Dynasties. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, every day in beginning of spring, people cut silver foil and Luo Cai into ornaments or small banners, put them on their heads or put them under flowers to celebrate the arrival of spring and give them to each other. Later, people used it to ward off evil spirits and magnify victory, and put it on the lintel on that day in beginning of spring. "This kind of tin spring win is the earliest' hanging money'.

Hanging money, mostly rectangular, consists of a center, a border and ears. Some only have patterns, some only have words, and some have both words and patterns. Generally, there are five pieces in each set, which are carved in five colors of paper, silk and silk, respectively, in order to obtain a unified and diverse formal beauty. According to "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing", "Five colors hang Qian Hui." Five colors originally refer to cyan, red, yellow, white and black. The lightness of five colors is distinct, and their juxtaposition can produce obvious contrast effect in human vision. Because people are afraid of black and white in folk customs, the five colors of hanging money are red, pink, yellow, green and blue.

Hanging money is generally 26-30 cm long and 20-25 cm wide. Mainly posted on the lintel, but also posted on warehouses, chicken houses, pig houses and well platforms. The pattern and text in the center of the hanging money must be closely connected with the border. If they are as thin as window grilles, people can't see clearly. Therefore, almost all hanging money must be cut and carved concisely, so that its patterns form a distinctive and heavy artistic style.

The Spring Festival is coming, and every household decorates their doorways with money, which makes people feel that winter is over and the Spring Festival is coming. This has become a major custom of the folk Spring Festival in China.

There are many names for hanging money, such as house number, hanging thousand, hanging money, door note, door crane and so on. It is said that its origin, like firecrackers, is to drive away the monster named Nian. Firecrackers scare Nian with sound, hang money and stimulate Nian's eyes with color.

In ancient China, there was a custom of expressing meaning by winning, which was recorded in the Book of Rites at the end of Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the rudiment of hanging money gradually took shape. In Duan's Youyang Miscellaneous Notes, Tang said: "On the day of beginning of spring, the home of literati, paper-cut flags, or hung on the head of a beauty, or the next flower, and cut into a spring butterfly, spring money, spring victory." Wei Zhuang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, described this in his poem "Spring Cuisine": "At first, the snow garden opened red fruits, the colorful flags were newly cut with poplars, and Yichun songs were diligently written, with embroidered lintels attached to the text." In the Qing Dynasty, hanging money was formally formed. Zhou Baoshan, a Tianjin poet in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a New Year's custom poem for this purpose, saying, "Hang money on the door first, and write Spring Festival couplets with golden red paper; Bamboo poles are tightly tied to the broom in front, cleaning the room and sticking windows are considered as Chinese New Year. "Fu Cha Dunchong also made a detailed annotation for it in" Yanjing Years ":"Those who hang a thousand words are engraved on auspicious red paper, and a long ruler is attached to the door, reflecting the peach symbol. "It can be seen that the history of hanging money has a long history.

There is another reason why people like it now, that is, the word "money" in its name hangs under the eaves of the door, indicating that the new year's financial resources are rolling in.

There is a saying called posting money for the New Year. When posting money at home, you must use rice paste, not too fast, and you must hang it in the house, not outside. When the doorman comes in and out, you hang up the money and shout. If you don't know which one will fall, then money will fall from the sky and fall to your home. So the spelling of hanging money should be "drop"