The origin of lucky money: It is said that the earliest lucky money has appeared in the Han Dynasty, and it is called "being tired of winning money". Here, being tired of the same pressure means suppressing evil spirits, and being tired of winning means suppressing evil spirits to win. In the Han dynasty, magic was very popular, and the method of hating victory was a kind of magic, which refers to the way to successfully suppress the people or things that you want to conquer. In the Tang dynasty, the function of lucky money was still mainly to ward off evil spirits, and it was mainly popular in the court, but it was not popularized among the people.
Legendary story about lucky money: It is said that there was a little demon named Chong in ancient times. He came out every year on the night of the 30th to touch the forehead of a sleeping child. After being touched, a child will have a high fever and talk in his sleep, and after the fever has gone down, he will become a demented fool. People are afraid that the special things will hurt their children and stay up all night, which is called keeping the special things. There is a family named Guan in Jiaxing prefecture. The husband and wife have children in their old age and cherish them very much.
On the eve of New Year's Eve, in order to prevent the children from being harassed by strangers, the children wrapped eight copper coins in red paper, which they unpacked and unpacked, and put them on the pillow after sleeping. In the middle of the night, an evil wind blew, and the little black man was about to touch the child's head with his bare hands. Suddenly, the child's pillow burst into a golden light and ran away screaming. So the story spread, and everyone followed suit, wrapping money in red paper for children on New Year's Eve, and I didn't dare to harass them again.
The moral of lucky money:
I hope that children can be safe and healthy in the new year, give the elderly a long life, and wish the elderly a long and healthy life. This is the common wish of all. The elders give their children lucky money, which represents the blessing for the children in the new year. In fact, it is not necessary to use money to suppress the old age. There are many examples in ancient and modern times where no money is used to suppress the old age.
Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, gave his son Mai Su an ordinary inkstone, and used the inkstone engraved by himself as a way to make progress, so as to make progress, so as to make money and think about it, and to inspire his son with the inkstone engraved by Chang Sisheng.