Folklore stories about traditional festivals 5 articles

It is said that the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets began more than a thousand years ago in the period of Hou Shu, and the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach symbols".

In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a ghost world, in which there is a mountain covered with three thousand miles of peach trees, on which there is a golden chicken. Whenever the golden cock crows in the morning, the ghosts that went out at night will come back. The two deities in charge of guarding the gate of the ghost world were called Shentan and Yubi, and if a ghost did something harmful at night, they would immediately catch it and feed it to the tiger, and all the ghosts were afraid of them. So the folk used peach wood to carve into their likeness and put it in front of their house to avoid evil and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved on the peach wood board with the name of Shentian, Yubi, thinking that this can also suppress the evil to go evil. This peach wood board was later called "peach charm".

By the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany board, one does not lose the significance of the mahogany to suppress evil, the second is to express their good wishes, the third is to decorate the portal, in order to beautiful. And write couplets on red paper to symbolize the joy and auspiciousness of the New Year, posted on both sides of the doors and windows, to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year. Because the door of our homes, usually two open, so the door god is always in pairs.

After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous Shentian, Yubi two generals, people also Qin Shubao and Yuchigong two Tang Dynasty military generals as a door god. Legend has it that when Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty was sick, he heard the ghosts and demons outside his door calling out and had no peace all night. So he asked these two generals to stand beside the door with weapons to guard it, and the next night there were no more ghosts to disturb him. Later, Emperor Tang Taizong had the image of the two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to be widely spread in the folklore.

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Legend has it that in ancient China, there was a beast called the "year", the head of a long, sharp horns, ferocious and unusual, the "year" beasts live deep under the sea for many years, and every New Year's Eve, climbed up to the shore to devour livestock, and hurt people, so every year, every year, every year, every year, every year, every year. Injury to human life, so every New Year's Eve, villages and cottages of people help the old and young, fled to the mountains to avoid the harm of the "year".

Another year of New Year's Eve, the townspeople as in previous years are busy packing things ready to escape to the mountains, this time the east end of the village came a white-haired old man, white-haired old man to a family of old women said that as long as he let him live in her house for a night, he will be able to "New Year" beasts driven away. The people do not believe that the old woman advised him to go to the mountains to avoid the good, but the old man insisted on staying, the people see that he could not persuade him, they have to go to the mountains to hide.

When the "year" beast as in previous years, ready to break into the village rampage, suddenly came the sound of firecrackers, "year" beast trembling, no longer dare to come forward, the original "year" beast is afraid of red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red. It turns out that the "year" beast is most afraid of red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door is wide open, only to see an old man wearing a red robe in the courtyard, laughing, "year" beast was shocked, fleeing in fear.

The next day, when people from the mountains back to the village, found the village safe and sound, it suddenly realized that the original white-haired old man is to help us expel the "New Year" beast of the gods, people also found the white-haired old man to expel the "New Year" beast of the three pieces of The people also discovered the three magic treasures of the white-haired old man to expel the "New Year" beast. From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, every family put up red couplets, firecrackers, household lights, to keep more waiting for the year. This custom is more and more widely spread, it has become the most important traditional Chinese folk festival "New Year".

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On the Mid-Autumn Festival There is also a legend: According to legend, the laurel tree in front of the Moon's Palace of Guanghan grows luxuriantly, more than 500 feet high, and there is a man who often cuts it down, but every time he cuts it down, he cuts it down and then immediately closes up the place. For thousands of years, it was cut down and closed up in this way, and the laurel tree could never be cut down. It is said that the man who cut down the tree was named Wu Gang, a man from Xihe in Han Dynasty, who had followed the immortals to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace, where he was punished by doing this kind of futile and hard work day after day. Li Bai's poem, "I want to carve the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for the cold".

Mid-Autumn Legend No. 3 - Zhu Yuanzhang and moon cake uprising

Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the majority of people in the Central Plains could not stand the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty ruling class, and have revolted against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bowen, the military advisor, came up with a plan to order his subordinates to hide the note with the message "Rise on the 15th of August" inside a cake, and then sent people to deliver it to the rebel armies around the world, informing them to rise on the night of the 15th of August to respond to the revolt. On the day of the uprising, all the rebels responded together, and the rebel army was like a prairie fire.

Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital, and the uprising was successful. The news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he hurriedly sent down an oracle, in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, so that all the soldiers and the people with the people, and will be the year of the military to secretly transmit information "moon cake", as a holiday pastry reward for the ministers. Since then, the "moon cake" production more and more fine, more varieties, as large as a disk, become a gift of goodies. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating moon cakes will be spread in folklore.

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The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and was almost as important as the Spring Festival in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There are many legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a few stories are familiar to the Chinese.

One is the story of Chang'e running to the moon. Legend has it that in ancient times, ten suns appeared in the sky, baking the people on earth. At this time a young man named Hou Yi appeared, he climbed to the summit of the Kunlun Mountains, opened his bow and arrow, whoosh shoot down nine suns, the earth then became cool, grass and trees began to grow, livestock began to reproduce, the people no longer suffered from the heat. Hou Yi had done so much for the people that many aspiring young men came to learn from him, and an unscrupulous man named Peng Meng got mixed up with him. One day, Hou Yi met the Queen Mother of the Western Heaven, who, in appreciation of Hou Yi's contribution to the people, gave him two pills and told him that he could become immortal after taking them. Hou Yi did not want to become immortal on his own, so he gave the pills to his beautiful wife, Chang'e, for safekeeping. Chang'e put the pills in the treasure chest, but Pengmeng knew about it, and when Hou Yi was hunting, he claimed to be sick and broke into Hou Yi's home with a sword, forcing Chang'e to give up the pills. Chang'e vowed not to give it, and in a crisis, she took out the medicine and swallowed it. After swallowing the medicine, Chang'e's body became extremely light and slowly floated into the sky. Hou Yi sensed that Chang'e was in danger, so he hurried home on his hunting trip. When he arrived, Chang'e had already floated out of the window, Hou Yi only had time to tear off a section of Chang'e's sleeve, and watched as Chang'e flew into the air, away from him and his homeland, and over the moon. The day Chang'e flew to the moon happened to be the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, and from then on, every year on this day, Hou Yi looked at the moon from afar, recalling the little moments of his life with Chang'e. The people were very proud of Chang'e's protection of the Immortals. The people were touched by Chang'e's protection of the elixir as well as Hou Yi's deep love, and every year on the 15th day of the 8th month, they also put fruits and gourds at home to worship Chang'e, gradually forming the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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Lunar Lunar month 23 and Lunar month 24, is an important traditional folk festival in China, known as the "over the small year", people in the day to worship Zaojun, clean up their homes, decorative window decorations, Spring Festival couplets, shopping for New Year's goods, and prepare for the New Year's festivities. The festival is an important traditional folk festival called the "New Year". The history of the New Year has been very long, so let's listen to the legend that has been passed down since ancient times: the story of the Big Year and the Little Year.

A long, long time ago, there were two immortals in the sky. The big fairy was called Dainian, and the small fairy was called Xiaonian. Dainian good heart, love and cherish people, every grain does not grow in the cold season, Dainian afraid of starving bad people, the sky's white flour scattered down for people to eat. Although Xiaonian is the brother of Dainian, his heart is bad. He used evil magic to the big year scattered to the people of the white flour into snow seeds, eat not to cure hunger but also freezing stomach. Waiting for people to fall ill, he then turned into a huge fangs of the beast down to eat people.

When Xiaonian eat people eat enough, he lay down to sleep, a sleep can sleep 360 days, wake up and eat people. Although people know that it is 360 days down a time, but hide where can not hide. So they burned incense and kowtowed, asking Dainian to be the master. Dainian heard the prayers of the world, only to realize that it is the small years of evil. He was furious and went to argue with Xiaonian, but he couldn't win.

Dainian had to come down to earth and say to the people: "Xiao Nian was born afraid of thunder and fire, and when he comes again, you use oil pine and firewood to burn the green bamboo, surrounded by a circle, light a fire, and people sit in the middle of it, and it comes down to eat it." People remember the words of the big year, the small year down, dry wood and oil pine burned bamboo "bang" chaotic, fire baked people, anxious it turned around and grinding teeth no way, had to go back with an empty stomach, hated gnashing of teeth: "When I practiced the fire, you eat a child child not to stay!"

Sunrise and sunset, grass green and yellow. Ferocious Xiaonian three thousand five hundred and ninety-nine days did not sleep, finally practiced the fire power; and Dainian has long been ready. He is also three thousand five hundred and ninety-nine days did not sleep, all day and night to simmering strength, practicing martial arts, ready to go down the mountain and the small years of a war, to protect human beings from being brutalized.

Just at noon on the 3,600th day, Dainian and Xiaonian met head-on in mid-air. The small years know not to get rid of the big years of their own eat uneasily, so hands to fight. The big year does not show weakness, the two fought the yellow wind rolling, clouds and fog cover the sky. This is the reason why there are so many winds and fogs in the spring.

A mouthful of fight for thirty-two days is difficult to distinguish, small year anxious, open mouth to swallow the big year. Dainian hastened to raise the heart of the thunder, who knew that the small years of a leap to hide to a high place. Dainian chased him up to hit him, he kept leaping up. This is the reason why February 2 strikes muffled thunder.

Dainian chased another seventy-four days, to see the heart of the thunder can not hit Xiaonian, let go of the fight. But Xiao Nian thought that his brother's thunder finished, a flip rushed down to catch Dainian. Dainian dodged and dodged, and raised his hand to pull out a long snow-white insect from behind his back. Only to see that the long insect mouth spit fire, straight to the small year burn.

Not waiting for Xiaonian to dodge, Dainian again spit out the booming thunder. Xiao Nian dodged, opened his mouth and sprayed out a black water, although not pouring fire, not wet thunder, but also to save his own. Big year chase, small year run, shaking the sky and earth, pouring rain. This is the origin of the summer pull flash thunder downpour.

Xiao Nian tired of fighting, head into the sea to sleep, Dainian rush to put out the sun, ripening grains, lest because he and Xiao Nian war to call people hungry. The small year a breath of rest for a hundred days, shaking spirit and big year to fight, cast out the cold air fire extinguishing work, want to freeze to death of big year, but big year this time to hide in the people hiding caves, warm through and also want to come to the turpentine oak oil, put the body wiped a layer and a layer, ready to fight with the small year of the battle to the death.

Another 360 days to the head, the small year expected the big year was frozen to death, it roared and rushed down to eat people. Only to see the big year a roll, with a body full of fire leaped into mid-air. Waiting for the small year just down to the treetops, the big year head into the mouth of the small year, down the throat to the belly, set fire to burn up. The pain of the small years hand pulling tree branches, two feet stirring.

In a short while, Xiaonian's hand was loose, and his body crossed to the tree branch. Only to see his body steaming hot, burned only a skin. Both Dainian and Xiaonian died. People knelt in unison in the courtyard, crying and kowtowing to Dainian. And hung the body of Xiaonian, which contained the body of Dainian, on the tree forever. Afterwards, people every 360 days in the courtyard under the tree to burn incense to the big year, said the big year is the fire god, there is incense will have magical powers. It can bless the generations with peace.

Later. The dynasty of capable people introduced 360 days is a cycle of spring, summer, fall and winter seasons. What is the name of this cycle? Everyone said, Dainian for us to give up their lives, we can never forget this great kindness. Enough of a cycle, even after a year. People also burned a small year according to the big year of the approach, imitating the small year burned to death after the remaining empty shells, made a and a lantern, every year on the festival hanging in the tree, to drive away the devil and town evil.

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