The Origin of Chinese New Year stick grilles

The Origin of Chinese New Year stick grilles:

According to legend, during the seven years of Yao's reign, there was an auspicious rare bird-Lu 'an Stork, which flew to live every year. Due to the arrival of the stork, Kirin was scared to run to the grass in osawa and dared not come out. The owl shivered and fled to the deserted forest.

Since then, the people have lived a peaceful life. Later, I don't know why the storks stopped flying, but the birds of prey and beasts that endangered the Lebanese people reappeared in Du Yi, and they were rampant everywhere, and the people were very disappointed.

There was a folding country. After listening to Yao Min's great reverence for Luan Gu Nian, he didn't know where Luan Gu Nian had flown, so he took the initiative to come to a kind of "re-Ming" Luan bird first. Because this bird has two pupils in each eye, it is also called "eyes". Chongming's body looks like a rooster, and it looks like a phoenix when singing. People think it is an auspicious bird.

When he first showed it, all his feathers were taken off, but he still flew with his lust. "Re-Ming" is fierce, can chase tigers and fight bravely. Tigers often become the delicious food of "seeing again". Since the emergence of "re-Ming", raptors, beasts and demons have not dared to harm the people.

Therefore, people respect Chongming and love him. They grind jade into fine powder every day and make it into liquid feed. Sometimes "seeing again" flies several times a year, and sometimes it doesn't fly for several years. In order to attract "Chongming" to fly frequently to ward off evil spirits, Li's broad masses of people cleaned the portal and prepared to stop at his habitat.

However, month after month, year after year, I hope I won't fly again. People are very worried about this. They are afraid that those fierce birds and beasts will worship the harm outside. Every household is trying to find a way. Some golden birds and some carved chickens were put on the window.

It really works. Fierce birds, beasts and monsters saw these wooden chickens and golden cocks, thinking that they "saw the light again", flew back, scared out of their wits, and fled to the distance to hide. Therefore, during the New Year, when monsters gather to do evil, Li people usually hang lifelike golden cocks and hens on the windows.

Over time, it gradually evolved into a folk custom. On the first day of the first month of each year, every household carves or draws golden birds and wooden chickens and hangs them on the windows. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, paper-cut cocks replaced the ancient golden birds and wooden chickens and stuck them on the windows, which became later window grilles.

There is another legend in stick grilles during the Spring Festival. When Jiang Taigong became a god, there was no place to seal it, so he had to seal himself as a window god. Some people will stick a red note on the window during the Spring Festival, which reads "Jiang Taigong is here, the gods are avoiding" for good luck.

Contents of window grilles

Window grilles are rich in content and wide in subject matter. Because the buyers of window grilles are mostly farmers, window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, raising pigs and chickens. In addition, there are myths and legends, drama stories and other themes. In addition, the images of flowers and birds, insects and fish, and the zodiac are also very common.

With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration.