What are the stories and legends of the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China. People believe that eating some traditional food at this time can bring good luck to their families. The Spring Festival is a special festival for China people. There are many folklore in the Spring Festival, so what do you know?

Legend of the Spring Festival 1: The story of ten thousand years is circulated. In ancient times, there was a young man named Wannian. Seeing that the festival was chaotic at that time, he had a plan to make it accurate. But he couldn't find a way to calculate the time. One day, he was tired of chopping wood on the mountain and sat in the shade. The movement of the shadow inspired him. He designed a sundial to measure the time of the day. Later, inspired by the dripping spring water on the cliff, he began to make a five-layer clepsydra to calculate the time. Over time, he found that every 360 days, the four seasons would cycle once, and the length of the weather would be repeated.

At that time, the monarch was called Zu Ti, who was often troubled by the unpredictable weather. Ten thousand years later, he took the sundial and the clepsydra to see the emperor and explained to Zu Ti the truth about the movement of the sun and the moon. Zu Ti was very happy after hearing this and felt reasonable. So he left for ten thousand years and built the Sun Moon Pavilion, the sundial platform and the Leaky Pot Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven. I hope I can accurately measure the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the exact time in the morning and evening, and create a calendar to benefit people all over the world.

On one occasion, Zu Ti went to learn about the progress of the perpetual calendar. When I boarded the altar of the Sun and Moon, I saw a poem engraved on the stone wall next to the Temple of Heaven: Sunrise 360, Sunset 360, Start all over again. Vegetation is divided into four seasons, and there are twelve circles in a year. Knowing that the perpetual calendar was created, I personally boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit the perpetual calendar. Wan Nian pointed to the astronomical phenomena and said to Zu Ti, "It's been twelve months now, the old year has passed and the new year has begun again. Please make a festival for you. " Zu Ti said, "Spring is the first year of a year, so let's call it Spring Festival". It is said that this is the origin of the Spring Festival.

After years of long-term observation and careful calculation, he worked out an accurate solar calendar. When he showed his successor the solar calendar, he was covered with silver whiskers. The monarch was deeply moved. In order to commemorate the achievements of 10 thousand years, he named the solar calendar "perpetual calendar" and named it the birthday star of the sun, moon and moon. In the future, people will hang up the Shou Xingtu during the Chinese New Year, which is said to commemorate the venerable ten thousand years.

Legend 2 of the Spring Festival: The story of putting things in jiaozi "Why put things in jiaozi?" The old man's statement is: "A good color in the new year." The custom of putting things in jiaozi originated from Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty. She was the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty. She has a habit of leading the queen and all the concubines to wrap jiaozi together every New Year's Eve, saying that it is to stop the little people from talking nonsense. Of course, she said she did it herself, but she was actually a eunuch and a maid-in-waiting. She just stood by and commanded.

Empress Dowager Cixi always makes a request in this pot of jiaozi: wrap four small gold ingots to see who can eat them. Those eunuchs who wait on one side have a good eye. They will firmly remember which jiaozi wrapped the gold ingot, cook it, and then scoop it up and give it to Empress Dowager Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi eats four gold ingots every year when she eats jiaozi. Everyone congratulates her quickly. Empress Dowager Cixi will feel that she has won the lottery, and she is very happy and blessed.

1908, that is, the year when Empress Dowager Cixi died. Surprisingly, she only ate three gold ingots. Perhaps it was because the Qing Dynasty was dying at that time, and the eunuchs around her were not very responsible, so they fished the fourth gold ingot-Jiaozi into the hands of the Jade Dragon Queen at that time. Empress Dowager Cixi must be unhappy now. If the empress dowager is unhappy, the consequences will be very serious. What should we do?

The Jade Dragon Queen is very clever. She secretly handed the gold ingot to the eunuch in charge, and the eunuch secretly put it in the pot, pretending that it was cooked. Empress Dowager Cixi was happy when she heard that the gold ingot was in the pot and no one robbed the lottery.

Legend 3 of the Spring Festival: According to the story of Nian, there was a monster named Nian in ancient times. This monster has long tentacles and sharp teeth. It is very fierce. Nian beast lives in the depths of the sea and will not go ashore until New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, annual meetings appear everywhere to eat people. Nian beast is fierce and abnormal. In order to avoid it, people have to take refuge in the deep mountains and forests on New Year's Eve. Young and middle-aged men stay at home with big knives and hoes, locking the door for fear of being eaten by Nian. People sit together with the door locked and encourage each other. When people are hungry, they start cooking, and the sound of cutting vegetables and cooking is very loud. Soon, Nian beast came.

Seeing the bright lights in the room, Nian beast was excited and rushed in. Who knows, suddenly there was a loud noise and a red bonfire was lit in the room. It turned out to be a pile of bamboo crackling. Nian beast shivered after seeing it. It is found that this monster is afraid of fire and sound.

Therefore, when the animals came, people would put up red paper in advance, hang red lanterns and set off firecrackers to drive away the Nian animals. After Nian beast is driven away, people will always happily say to each other, "Another year has passed."

People call the last day of the lunar calendar "New Year's Eve" and the first day of New Year's Day "New Year's Eve" to commemorate the extermination of Nian beast on this day.

Legend of the Spring Festival 4: The story of upside-down blessing

There is a legend among the people that the word "fu" is upside down. Ming Taizu used the word "Fu" as a code word to prepare for murder. In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind Ma Huanghou asked the people of the whole city to post "blessings" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dares to go against Ma Huanghou's will, so the word "Fu" is posted on every door. If one of the families can't read, turn the word "fu" upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people to the streets to check and found that every family had posted the word "Fu", and another family had posted the word "Fu" upside down. When the emperor heard the news, he was furious and immediately ordered the body guard to cut down the house. When Ma Huanghou saw that things were not good, he quickly said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "The family knew that you were visiting today, and deliberately turned the word" Fu "upside down. Isn't this what' Fudao' means? " When the emperor heard the truth, he ordered his release, and a great disaster was finally eliminated. Since then, people have reversed the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival to seek good luck and commemorate Ma Huanghou.

Legend of the Spring Festival 5: The Story of Rice Cake During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a great official in the State of Wu named Wu Zixu, who was an important official under He Lv, the king of Wu, and also the builder of Gusu City (now Suzhou). At that time, in order to prevent outsiders from invading, Wu Zixu led people to build the famous Helv City, which was the predecessor of Gusu City. After the city was repaired, Wu Zixu said to his confidant, "After my death, if the country is in trouble and the people are hungry, you can dig a few feet under the city gate to find food."

Later, Wu Zixu was framed and committed suicide. Yue took the opportunity to attack Wu, and the war continued, and the local people starved everywhere. In times of crisis, someone thought of Wu Zixu's entrustment and secretly dug under the wall. This kind of excavation is impossible. It turned out that the city foundation was made of bricks and stones made of glutinous rice, and people dug it out to make food, which helped them tide over the difficulties. This kind of food is rice cake.

Later, people made rice cakes with glutinous rice to offer sacrifices to Wu Zixu. In addition, the pronunciation of rice cakes is the same as that of "rice cakes". People think that eating rice cakes means "getting taller every year" and is an auspicious food. So now, except jiaozi, many people will eat a kind of food during the Spring Festival: rice cakes.

The above are the stories and legends I know about the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friend? Say it in the comments section.