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There are many legends about the Spring Festival. One of the legends of the Spring Festival: stay up and stay up late on the last night of the old year to welcome the arrival of the new year. Year".Inquiring into the origin of this custom, there is an interesting story among the folks:

In ancient times, there was a ferocious monster that lived scattered in deep mountains and dense forests. People called them "Nian".It has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, beasts, and scale insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing worms to living people, which makes people talk about "years".Later, people gradually grasped the activity law of "Nian", which is to rush to the place where people live every 360 or [-] days to taste delicious food, and the time of haunting is after dark. Go back to the forest.After calculating the date when the "Nian" will be raging, the people regard this terrible night as a pass, called "Nianguan", and come up with a whole set of ways to celebrate the New Year: Every night on this day, every family Every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire and cleans the stove, then fastens all the chicken pens and cattle pens, seals the front and back doors of the house, and hides in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has an ominous and unpredictable meaning. It means that the purchase is very rich. In addition to having the whole family eat together to express harmony and reunion, you must also offer sacrifices to the ancestors before eating, pray for the blessings of the ancestors, and spend the night safely. , No one dared to sleep, they sat together and chatted to strengthen their courage.Gradually formed the habit of staying up late on New Year's Eve.

The custom of keeping the year old rose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems and essays about keeping the year old. "Two years in one night, and two years in five o'clock." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil plagues and diseases, and looks forward to good luck in the new year.This custom has been handed down to this day. .

The second legend of the Spring Festival: Wannian created the calendar According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young man named Wannian who saw that the festivals were chaotic at that time, so he planned to fix the festivals.But he couldn’t find a way to calculate the time. One day, he was tired from cutting firewood on the mountain and sat under the shade of a tree to rest. Later, the dripping spring on the cliff inspired him, and he made a five-layer clepsydra to calculate the time.As time goes on, he found that every 360 days, the four seasons reincarnate once, and the length of the weather is repeated.

At that time, the monarch was named Zu Yi, and he often felt distressed by the unpredictable weather.After Wannian knew it, he took the sundial and clepsydra to see the emperor, and explained to Zu Yi the principle of the sun and the moon.Zu Yi felt reasonable after hearing Long Yan Joye.So Wannian was left behind, and the Sun Moon Pavilion was built in front of the Temple of Heaven, and the sundial platform and clepsydra pavilion were built.And hope to measure the quasi-sun and moon laws, calculate the accurate morning and evening time, create a calendar, and benefit the people of Li people in the world.

Once, Zu Yi went to learn about the progress of the Ten Thousand Years Test Calendar.When he boarded the Sun Moon Altar, he saw a poem carved on the stone wall beside the Temple of Heaven:

Three hundred and six sunrises and sunsets, starting from scratch again and again.

There are four o'clock in the grass and trees, and there are twelve yuan in a year.

Knowing that Wannian's creation of the calendar has been completed, he went to the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian himself.Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zu Yi: "It's twelve months now, the old year is over, and the new spring is coming back, please ask the king to set a festival."Zu Yi said: "Spring is the beginning of the year, so let's call it the Spring Festival."It is said that this is the origin of the Spring Festival.

From winter to spring, year after year, ten thousand years, after long-term observation and careful calculation, he worked out an accurate solar calendar. When he presented the solar calendar to his successor, his face was covered with silver whiskers.The monarch was deeply moved, and in order to commemorate Wannian's achievements, he named the solar calendar "Wannian Calendar" and named Wannian as the sun, moon and birthday star.Later, people hang up pictures of birthday stars during Chinese New Year, which is said to commemorate the ten thousand years of high morality and prestige.

, Spring Festival Legend No. [-]: Pasting Spring Festival couplets and door gods
It is said that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began about 1000 years ago in the Shu period, which is evidenced by history.In addition, according to "Jade Candle Collection", "Yanjing Sui Shi Ji" and other works, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach charms".

In ancient Chinese mythology, it is said that there is a world of ghost domains, in which there is a mountain with a large peach tree covering three thousand miles, and a golden rooster on the treetop.Whenever the golden rooster crows in the early morning, the ghosts that wander out at night will rush back to the ghost domain.The gate of the ghost domain is located in the northeast of Taoshu, and there are two gods and men named Shentu and Yulei standing beside the gate.If a ghost does something unreasonable at night, Shentu and Yulei will immediately find out and catch it, tie it up with a rope made of awn reed, and send it to the tiger.Therefore, all ghosts in the world are afraid of God Tu and Yu Lei.So the folks carved them in peach wood and placed them at the door of their houses to avoid evil and harm.Later, people simply engraved the names of the gods Tu and Yu Lei on the peach wood planks, thinking that doing so can also suppress evil and evil.This kind of peach wood board was later called "peach charm".

In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the peach wood board, one without losing the meaning of peach wood to suppress evil, the other expressing their good wishes, and the third decorating the door for beauty.Couplets are written on red paper that symbolizes joy and auspiciousness, and they are pasted on both sides of the doors and windows on the occasion of the New Year to express people's good wishes for good fortune in the coming year.

In order to pray for the longevity of the family, people in some places still retain the habit of sticking door gods.It is said that if the two door gods are pasted on the gate, all ghosts and ghosts will be intimidated.In the folk, the door god is a symbol of righteousness and force. The ancients believed that people with strange appearances often have magical dispositions and extraordinary abilities.They are honest and kind-hearted, and it is their nature and responsibility to catch ghosts and demons. Zhong Kui, the heavenly master of ghosts and ghosts admired by people, has such grotesque appearances.Therefore, the folk door gods are always glaring and hideous, holding various traditional weapons in their hands, ready to fight any ghosts who dare to come to the door.Because the gates of Chinese folk houses are usually opened in two, the door gods are always in pairs.

After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shen Tu and Yu Lei, people also regarded Qin Shubao and Yu Chigong as the door gods.According to legend, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was ill, and he heard ghosts shouting outside the door, and he had no peace all night.So he asked the two generals to stand guard by the gate with weapons in hand, and the next night there were no more ghosts to disturb them.Later, Tang Taizong asked people to draw the images of these two generals and paste them on the door. This custom began to spread among the people.

These legends about the Spring Festival have been widely circulated by the Chinese people, just like Christmas in Western countries. However, this tradition of pasting Spring Festival couplets and door gods is not very popular in many big cities, but it is a must for every household in the countryside. thing.

When I mentioned the Spring Festival, I just babbled a few more words, I hope you guys don’t take offense, I said that we went out to the airport, and there were a lot of people at the airport, and now it’s the Spring Festival travel season, needless to say, we arrived at the airport in about half an hour Yes, Jiang Hao’s father hasn’t gotten off the plane yet, Yujiao’s mother and brother Zifeng and I stayed in the car, because it’s cold outside because of the cool breeze, and it’s still late winter, even though the sun is out, it’s still very cold.There was an endless stream of airport personnel, and suddenly, Uncle Jin ran over and said, "Ma'am, Mr. got off the plane." Yujiao's mother said excitedly, "Okay, you go first, we'll be right there," and then We got out of the car, Yujiao's mother took me with her left hand, and brother Zifeng with her right hand, and walked towards the exit. From a distance, I saw a man in an expensive suit waving towards us, "Yu'er, here. "Jiang Hao was very happy to see his family who had not been there for many days. He was accompanied by a beautiful female secretary who looked like a strong woman. She was young and beautiful, about [-] years old, and her hair was neatly pulled up.Form into a bun.

When I saw her, she was not a good person, a bit like Yu Fang, she was a vixen, and while I was looking at her, she was also looking at me. I turned my eyes away, and Yujiao's mother said: "Ruoruo, then It’s your father Jiang Hao.” Before I had time to speak, Jiang Hao’s father rushed over, first saved Yujiao’s mother and said, “Yu’er, I miss you so much.” Then he hugged Brother Zifeng, and then it was me , I looked at the handsome Jiang Hao’s father in front of me, and I felt more joy in my heart. He hugged me and said: "You are Ruoruo, you are so cute and beautiful, Yuer, I really like this child, Yuer Thank you for the surprise." Luo Weiwei, who was standing not far away, felt very uncomfortable, why their family is so happy, and I am not as good as that woman, my fingertips were pinched into the flesh, and a flash of light flashed in her eyes The hatred did not escape my eyes, because she had the same eyes as Yu Fang.

She came over and said respectfully: "President, Ma'am, I won't disturb the reunion of Li's family. I'm here to wish Madam's family a happy new year." Yujiao's mother politely replied: "Miss Luo, see you next year, happy new year Oh." Yujiao's mother ordered: "Uncle Jin, go and drive the car." Uncle Jin went to see the car, our family walked and chatted, Uncle Jin drove the car, we sat in the car, and Talking and laughing.

It took about an hour or so before we arrived home. A sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner had already been prepared at home. Yujiao’s mother was busy introducing Uncle Ping and the others, “Qing’er, Li Ping, this is your brother-in-law, Jiang Hao.” Aunt Li Uncle Heping replied: "Brother-in-law is good." Jiang Hao's father looked at Li Haoran who was sitting on the sofa and said, "This kid is Ranran." Li Haoran replied politely: "I am Li Haoran. Hello, Uncle!" , everyone sat together to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, it was so lively.Some servants in the family also went home for the Spring Festival, and those who stayed were Uncle Jin and Aunt Zhang who had no relatives.After dinner, Jiang Hao’s father gave us red envelopes, we played poker together, every corner of the house was full of laughter,,,,,,,