Customs of Spring Festival: Introduction to Sticking Chicken

Customs of Spring Festival: Introduction to Sticking Chicken

On the paste chicken in the custom of Spring Festival

In ancient times, during the Spring Festival, chickens were painted on doors and windows to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. The book Xuan Zhong Ji written by Jin people mentioned the pheasant on Dushuo Mountain mentioned above, saying that the pheasant crowed when the sun just rose and the first ray of sunshine shone on this big tree. When it crows, chickens all over the world crow with it. Chicken cut during the Spring Festival actually symbolizes pheasant. In ancient mythology, there is also a saying that chickens are deformed birds. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Yao, friends in the past paid tribute to a Chongming bird, which could ward off evil spirits. Everyone welcomes the arrival of Chongming birds every year, but envoys don't come every year. People carve wooden birds, or put them in bronze statues on portals, or draw them on doors and windows to scare off monsters and make them afraid to come again. Because the bird looks like a chicken, it gradually changed to draw a chicken or cut window flowers and stick them on doors and windows, which became the source of paper-cutting art in later generations.

China paid special attention to chickens in ancient times, calling them? Bird of Five Virtues? . "Biography of Korean Poetry" says that a crown on the head is Wende; There is a distance behind the foot to play, which is martial arts; It is brave for the enemy to dare to fight before; It is benevolence to have food to welcome the same kind; Vigilance and dawn are beliefs. Therefore, people not only cut and paste chickens during the Chinese New Year, but also set the first day of the New Year as Chicken Day.

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