Common cases of New Year pictures

In ancient times, people called New Year pictures "door paintings", and the earliest name was "door paintings". There are various patterns on the New Year pictures, mainly the following:

1. Tiger: In ancient times, people thought that "the tiger is the penis, the length of all animals, and it can kill ghosts and eat ghosts", so it became the most common beast in town houses in New Year pictures.

2. Chicken: There are big peach trees and roosters on Du Tao Mountain. The ancients believed that darkness was the hiding place of ghosts. The rooster crowing at sunrise becomes a sacred object to reconcile yin and yang and drive away ghosts, which is homophonic with "Ji" and painted as a thing in the town house.

3. Deer: Most auspicious patterns are sika deer. The salary of ancient officials is called salary, and deer is homophonic with "Lu", which means wealth.

4. Sheep: The ancients used the word "auspicious" for sheep, and Daji sheep was a great luck. There are auspicious and auspicious meanings in the patterns of sheep ornaments.

5.？ Fish: homophonic with "fish", meaning rich life. On New Year's Day, my family was well-off.