The historical allusions of the Spring Festival include the legend of receiving the God of Wealth during the Spring Festival, the story of Laba porridge, the legend of pasting Spring Festival couplets, etc.

Spring Festival Legend 1: The legend of receiving the God of Wealth during the Spring Festival.

The day to receive the God of Wealth during the Spring Festival is on the fifth day of the first lunar month. Legend has it that this is the God of Wealth’s birthday. After the first day of junior high school, we must prepare to welcome the God of Wealth. On the evening of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, every household will prepare a banquet to celebrate the birthday of the God of Wealth and welcome the arrival of the God of Wealth.

Legend has it that during the Song Dynasty, people believed that Prime Minister Cai Jing was very rich, so they said he was born as the God of Wealth. Since he was born on the fifth day of the first lunar month, people worshiped Cai Jing as the God of Wealth. Later, Cai Jing fell, and the people changed the God of Wealth. In the Song Dynasty, the surname was Zhao, and the people named the God of Wealth "Zhao Xuantan" and worshiped it.

Spring Festival Legend 2: The story of Laba porridge.

"Children, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba Festival. Drink Laba porridge for a few days." This is a New Year's song in the north. It starts with eating Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The custom of drinking Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month does not originate from folklore, but from Buddhism.

It is said that Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, became a monk and practiced asceticism for six years. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he attained enlightenment and became a Buddha under the Bodhi tree. After six years of suffering, he would eat porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. Laba has also become the "anniversary of the Buddha's Enlightenment".

Laba is a grand festival of Buddhism. Every year on this day, qualified temples will hold a Buddha bathing ceremony, make Laba porridge, chant sutras for the Buddha, and give Laba porridge to ordinary people who come to pray for peace. Later, this spread to the people and became a custom.

Spring Festival Legend Three: The legend of pasting Spring Festival couplets.

The original source of Spring Festival couplets is Shen Tu Yu Lei mentioned above. In the Five Dynasties, people began to replace Shen Tu Yu Lei's name with Lian Yu. Spring couplets became common in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang After Jinling was established as the capital, the people in the city were ordered to post Spring Festival couplets and even went out to appreciate them in person. Later, literati also regarded writing couplets as an elegant thing and became a social fashion.