Stories about the New Year

Once upon a time, there was a monster named Nian. It has horns on its head, which is very powerful. Nian beast usually hides at the bottom of the sea, and the Spring Festival is coming soon. Nian beast will climb out of the sea and eat cows, sheep, chickens, pigs and even people.

On one occasion, the people knew that Nian beast was coming, and they all took animals into the mountains to escape. At this moment, a white-bearded grandfather came. An old woman advised Grandpa White Beard to hide quickly. Grandpa with white beard said, I live here, and I'm not afraid of Nian beast. Only Nian beast is afraid of me. It turns out that Nian beast is most afraid of red, noise and fire.

From then on, everyone knew a good way to dare to walk the Nian beast. As the Spring Festival approaches, people will put up red couplets at the door, put up red blessings, put up red window grilles on the windows, set off firecrackers and set off fireworks.

2. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small demon with black hands and white body called Chong, who came out to harm people on the evening of 30th every year. It touched the head of the sleeping child three times, and the child cried with fear, and then began to have a fever and talk nonsense. After a few days, the fever subsided, but the clever child became a dementia fool. People are afraid that fetishism will harm children, so they sit up with lights on, which is called "fetishism".

In Jiaxing, there is a family named Guan, and the husband and wife have a son in their later years, which is regarded as the apple of their eye. On New Year's Eve, I forced them to play for fear that they would harm the children. The child wrapped eight copper coins in red paper, opened them, opened them again, and played until he fell asleep. Eight wrapped copper coins are placed on the pillow.

The couple didn't dare to close their eyes and stayed with their children all night. In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew the door open and blew out the lights. When the little black boy touched the child's head with his bare hands, a light broke into the child's pillow. Chong hurriedly withdrew his hand and ran away screaming.

Mr. and Mrs. Guan told everyone that wrapping eight copper coins in red paper was to scare away those special people. Everyone also learned to wrap eight copper coins in red paper and put them on pillows after the children's New Year's Eve. Sure enough, I never dare to hurt children again.

It turned out that these eight copper coins were exchanged by the Eight Immortals, which helped the children secretly scare away the admirers. Therefore, people call this kind of money "lucky money", and because of the homonym of "worship" and "year old", it is called "lucky money" over time.

It is said that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the post-Shu period about 1000 years ago, which is proved by history. In addition, according to the Jade Candle Collection and the Chronicle of Yanjing, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Fu Tao".

In the ancient mythology of China, it is said that there is a ghost world, in which there is a mountain, a big peach tree covering three thousand miles, and a golden rooster at the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Peach Tree District. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu.

If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of Miscanthus and give it to the tiger. So all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu.

So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao".

In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. They also write couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and good luck, and stick them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.

In order to pray for the longevity of the family, people in some places still keep the habit of sticking up doors. It is said that there are two door gods posted on the gate, and all monsters will be afraid. In the folk, the door god is a symbol of justice and strength. The ancients thought that people with strange looks often had magical temperament and extraordinary skills.

They are honest and kind, and it is their nature and responsibility to catch ghosts and demons. Zhong Kui, a ghost hunter who is highly regarded by people, is such a strange look. Therefore, the folk door gods are always glaring and ferocious, holding all kinds of traditional weapons in their hands, ready to fight against ghosts who dare to come to the door. Because the doors of China's house are usually two opposite doors, the door gods are always paired.

After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill, heard ghosts screaming outside, and stayed up all night.

So he asked the two generals to stand by with weapons in their hands, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the images of these two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread widely among the people.

4. There is a lucky cat. During the Chinese New Year, he will go out and give out red envelopes. There is a blessing in the red envelope: "Congratulations and Happy New Year!" When you receive a red envelope, there will be many blessings in the new year. Knowing that everyone was waiting for him, the lucky cat went door to door. He quietly put the red envelope on the child's bedside and brought blessings to every child.

I left one family after another, and red envelopes were distributed one after another. At dawn, the lucky cat came to the rice cake master's house. The rice cake master is still cooking rice cakes all night.

The hard-working rice cake master should be the most blessed, but the red envelope has been delivered. The lucky cat kept bowing to the rice cake master: "Congratulations, Happy New Year!" " "The rice cake master smiled and gave it to the lucky cat. The lucky cat is still bowing assiduously: "Congratulations, Happy New Year! " "

The rice cake master smiled and brought the rice cake to the lucky cat. The lucky cat is still bowing: "Congratulations and Happy New Year!" " "If you are not careful, the lucky cat's face will stick to the rice cake." Haha, my rice cake has become a blessing cake! "The rice cake master likes to be all smiles.

The rice cake master is so happy and likes it. Lucky cats print their smiling faces on every rice cake. While printing, I said to the rice cake, "Congratulations!" Every piece of rice cake has become a blessing cake.

"Crack, crack, crack" At dawn, every household got up and set off firecrackers. The rice cake master gave everyone a blessing cake.

The smiling face of the lucky cat is printed on the rice cake, as if to say to everyone, "Congratulations, Happy New Year!" " "Everyone who bought a fortune cookie put the money in a red paper bag and gave it to the rice cake master. The rice cake master received many, many red envelopes. Everyone says that the person who works hardest should be the most blessed.

From then on, everyone called the rice cake Fu Gao and called the rice cake master Fu Shi.

During the Spring Festival, every household should stick the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. According to Liang Lu's Dream, "When I was young, I would go to department stores and draw a peach symbol of a keeper to welcome the spring".

"Scholars, big or small, must sweep the floor, clean the family, change the door gods, hang Zhong Xu, nail peaches, stick spring cards and worship their ancestors." "Sticking Spring Card" is the word "Fu" written on red paper.

The word "fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", but in the past it meant "good luck" and "good luck". No matter now or in the past, the word "Fu" posted in the Spring Festival has pinned people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, the people simply turn the word "blessing" upside down, indicating that "blessing has fallen" and "blessing has arrived"

There is also a legend that the word "fu" is posted upside down among the people. 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 turned the word "Fu" upside down for good luck and in memory of Ma Huanghou.

Others elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on. In the past, there was a folk saying that "on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every family wrote big characters". The word "fu" used to be handwritten, but now it is sold in markets and shops.