People in China like to paste New Year pictures. The most popular New Year picture is Yangliuqing's "Golden Twelve Thousand" work. Opening a restaurant or shop also likes to cast a big gold ingot at the door or in the hall, on which are cast the words "make money into treasure", and burn incense every day to pray for a wide range of financial resources.
On holidays, there are dishes symbolizing gold and wealth and various traditional snacks, which become the protagonists. Eating auspiciousness is a unique food culture in China for thousands of years. It is perfect to express your wishes through food, which can not only fill your stomach, but also bring blessings.
For example, when we go to a restaurant for dinner, there are often "twelve thousand taels of gold", "twelve thousand bean sprouts", "twelve thousand spring rolls of gold" and "twelve thousand gold dollars of gold" on the menu. It can be seen that the expectations of all sentient beings are infiltrated into daily life.
These two pieces in my collection were bought with money and cast in Qing Dynasty. On the front of the book, "New Year's money becomes treasure, and gold is 12 thousand", with a dignified font and eight ingots cast on the edge; There is a lion rolling hydrangea on the back: The traditional lion rolling hydrangea is a folk festival activity, which is generally held in some traditional festivals, implying that people hope that the lion can drive away bad luck and hydrangea can bring good luck. Money is old and spicy, its appearance is perfect, and when the door is opened, it is in pairs, which is festive and auspicious.