Traditional implication mode.
1: paragraph "Youyang Miscellaneous Plant Continuation": "There was a bamboo nest in the Tongzi Temple in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was only a few feet long. According to legend, its temple number reports that bamboo is safe every day. " Gang Wei, a monk in charge of temple affairs. Later, "bamboo newspaper peace" refers to the letter of peace, also referred to as "bamboo newspaper".
2. According to folklore, there lived a mountain chief in Yunshan, Huaxi, who was more than a foot long and suffered from various diseases. A man named Li Yi, in order to avoid meeting Shan Gui, threw bamboo into the fire every morning and evening and let it explode. The sound made Shan Gui afraid to run away, so everyone escaped the disaster. Later, from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, every household set off firecrackers that invented paper rolls, aiming at exorcising evil spirits and welcoming peace. Therefore, there are poems such as "one year old in firecrackers" or "one year old in firecrackers, everything is renewed". Folk auspicious patterns include bamboo paintings or children setting off firecrackers, which means to report peace.
Legend has it that there was a spectre with a monkey face but only one hand and one foot in the southern mountains in ancient times, which was called "Mandrill". Black hair and red eyes, long hair fluttering, making a nest in the tree, the diameter of the cave door is only a few inches, but the whole nest body is painted with Songkhla and mud. Mandrill likes to catch shrimps and crabs in the mountain stream. They also realize that keeping warm in winter can keep out the cold. So the mandrill, who couldn't make a fire, began to snatch fire from people. At first, people went into the mountains to make a fire, slowly walked out of the mountains and harassed the villages where human beings lived. It is frightening to say that it has become a major public hazard.
Gradually, people found that mandrill was particularly afraid of the crackling sound of bamboo when it burned. When it smells this sound, it will panic and run away, and even dare not look back, and dare not appear again for a long time. Now, people have a clever plan to scare away mandrills. Whenever it is freezing, they light hot bamboo to make power. When hunting and chopping wood in the mountains, I also took some bamboo tubes and threw them into the fire to make them burst. It is said that at the turn of the new year, mandrills travel most frequently. So people hold a public fireworks ceremony at this time and then say peace to each other, because everyone believes that harmful ghosts have been scared away. The method and ceremony of firecrackers to exorcise ghosts gradually evolved into the traditional custom of China people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Until people invented gunpowder and made it into a burning object instead of firecrackers, they still called it "firecrackers". Obviously, its function is no different from the past. As for Ruitu, the theme of setting off firecrackers by children not only expresses the meaning of exorcism, but also adds a happy atmosphere to holiday activities.