Chinese New Year Children's Drawing Characters

Chinese New Year Children's Drawing Characters 10

Introduction to the Spring Festival

In ancient China, the main action of the New Year was to fight ghosts. "Laha" to eat "Laha congee", in the court and folk to fight ghosts, Lunar New Year's Eve 23 sacrifices to dominate the good and bad luck ' "Zao Wang" in order to food and clothing to eat.

During this period, but also to sweep away filth, prevent disease. Thirty days to paste the god of the door, couplets, hanging flags, eating dumplings, firecrackers, New Year's Eve "vigil", the first day of the New Year to pay tribute to each other blessings.

Lunar New Year's Day 30, why do people want to paste the door on the door god? There is such a legend: Tang Taizong was sick one day, dreaming of hearing "ghosts" screaming, sleep and lie uneasily. General Qin Shubao and Yuchigong know, fully clothed, hand-held weapons, guarding the door. That night, Tang Taizong no longer have nightmares. Later, he ordered the painter to paint the statues of Qin Shubao and Yuchigong and hang them on the door of the palace, which was called the god of the door. Later, the people followed suit and also posted this image to avoid evil.

The posting of couplets during the Spring Festival has a long history. The couplets originated from the ancient peach symbols. According to the Huainanzi, peach charms are made of peach wood. In the Five Dynasties, the court of Hou Shu began to inscribe couplets on peach charms. Meng Chang, the later lord, once inscribed, "New Year's Day Nayu Celebration, Jiajie No. Everlasting Spring." This is said to be one of the earliest couplets in China. After Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, he ordered every family to put up couplets. The Qing people by the "Yanjing times" said: "spring couplets, that is, peach symbols also. Since the wax, that is, there are literati, in the city eaves, writing spring couplets, in order to run the pen. After the sacrificial stove, it is gradually glued hanging, thousands of doors, ten thousand households, a new look." It can be seen that since the Five Dynasties, the celebratory wishes, replaced the elusive charm. Later, peach charms were replaced by spring scrolls written on large red paper.

Why is the Spring Festival also called New Year?

According to legend, in ancient China, there was a monster called Xi, with a long tentacled head and extraordinary ferocity. It often devoured livestock and harmed people's lives. So much so that people in villages and hamlets fled to the mountains to avoid the harm of the beast.

On New Year's Eve, the people of Peach Blossom Village were taking refuge in the mountains, in a hurry and panic. At this time, outside the village came a child, saw an old woman asked about the reason. The child laughed and said, "Granny, my name is Nian, let me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive away the beast of the night." The old woman looked at him with astonished eyes and saw that he was a man of great splendor. But she still continued to persuade, and Nian smiled without saying a word. The old woman had no choice but to leave her home behind and take refuge in the mountains.

In the middle of the night, the beast of the night broke into the village, it found the atmosphere of the village is different from the previous year: the east end of the village wife's house, the door posted a big red paper, the house candles bright. The beast shivered and gave a strange cry. He stared angrily at the old lady's house for a moment, and then pounced on her with a frenzied shriek. Near the door, the courtyard suddenly came bang bang bang bang bang, the beast trembled, and did not dare to come forward. It turns out that the beast is most afraid of red, fire and explosions. At this time, the mother-in-law's door was wide open, only to see a small child clad in red robes in the yard, laughing. The Sunset Beast was so shocked that it fled in a panic.

The next day, refuge back to the people see the village safe and sound, very surprised. At this point, the old woman realized, rushed to the townspeople to tell the promise of the year. Folks flocked to the old lady's house, only to see the old lady's house door with red paper, a pile of unburned bamboo in the yard is still in the "snap" explosion, a few red candles inside the house is still glowing afterglow. Ecstatic villagers to celebrate the arrival of good luck, have changed into new clothes wearing new hats, to friends and relatives to say hello. This incident soon spread in the surrounding villages, people know the way to drive away the beast of the evening. For this reason, everyone has to go to pay tribute to the year, that is, now the "New Year's Day" (the origin of the New Year's Day), and the year to get rid of the evening of the day called New Year's Eve (the origin of the New Year's Eve).

From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, home red couplets, firecrackers; household candles bright, keep more to wait for the year. Early in the morning on the first day, but also to go to friends and relatives to say goodbye. This custom is more and more widely spread, into the Chinese folk the most grand traditional festival "New Year".