2019-02-07

Legends about the Spring Festival:

1. Staying up until the end of the year:

In ancient times, there was a The ferocious monsters live scattered in the deep mountains and dense forests. People call them "Nian". It has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, animals, and scale insects. It changes its taste every day, ranging from kowtowing insects to living people, making people talk about the "New Year".

Later, people gradually mastered the activity pattern of "Nian". It rushes to crowded places to taste fresh food every three hundred and sixty-five days, and the time it appears is always in the sky. After dark, when the rooster crows and dawn breaks, they return to the mountains and forests. After calculating the date when the "New Year" would be rampant, the people regarded this terrible night as a critical moment, called it "New Year's Eve", and came up with a whole set of ways to celebrate the New Year's Eve.

Every night on this day, every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the heat and cleans the stove, fastens all the chicken pens and cattle pens, seals the front and back doors of the house, and hides in the house. Eat "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the symbol of bad luck, so it is very sumptuous. In addition to having the whole family eat together to express harmony and reunion, you must also offer sacrifices to the ancestors before eating and pray to the ancestors. With the blessing of the gods, we spent the night peacefully. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, and they sat huddled together and chatted to strengthen their courage. Gradually, we formed the habit of staying up late on New Year's Eve.

2. The Legend of Peach Talisman:

On a dark night, a ghost with a green face and fangs, red hair and green eyes wanted to steal the fairy peach. The two brothers Shen Tu and Yu Lei (the earliest door gods), the owners of the peach forest, used peach branches to defeat ghosts and monsters, and tied them with straw ropes to feed the tigers watching the mountain. From then on, the names of the two brothers made ghosts and monsters fear them, and after their death, they became gods who specialized in punishing evil ghosts.

In later generations, people used peach boards one inch wide and seven or eight inches long to draw images of the gods Shen Tu and Yu Lei and hang them on both sides of their doors to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. This kind of peach boards is called "Peach charm". With the changes of the times, the peach charms themselves also changed. Later, people wrote the names of the two gods on the peach charms instead of portraits. Later, it developed into "inscribed peach charms", that is, with the same number of words, symmetrical structure, and corresponding meanings. Short poems were inscribed on peach symbols, which was the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets.

Extended information:

The Spring Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is the traditional Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is commonly known as the "New Year's Day". The traditional names are New Year, New Year, Tianla, and New Year. It is also known verbally as celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, and celebrating the new year.

During the Spring Festival, China's Han people and some ethnic minorities have to hold various celebration activities. These activities are mainly about worshiping gods, paying homage to ancestors, eradicating the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the new year, welcoming blessings, and praying for a good harvest. The forms are rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and ethnic groups belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a joyful and peaceful festival, and it is also a day for family reunions. During the Spring Festival, people try their best to go home to reunite with their relatives. During this festival, relatives and friends visit each other to express their feelings for relatives and friends and their best wishes for the new year.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It is also an important carrier for Chinese people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands.