Chinese New Year custom

One of the legends of the Spring Festival: Post Spring Festival couplets and fighting gods

It is said that the custom of the Spring Festival couplets began about a post-mortem period more than a thousand years ago. This is evidenced by history. In addition, according to the "Jade Candle Collection", "Yan Jing Years" and other works, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach."

In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a world of ghosts. There is a mountain. There is a large peach tree covering three thousand miles on the mountain and a golden chicken on the treetop. Whenever the golden rooster screams in the morning, the ghosts who go out to wander at night will rush back to the ghost field. The gate of the ghost domain is located in the northeast of the peach tree. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Yu and Yu Lei. If the ghost does something that is damaging in the night, the gods and the scorpion will immediately find and catch it, bundle it with a rope made of mang, and send it to the tiger. Therefore, the ghosts of the world are afraid of gods and stagnation. So the folks used peach wood to engrave them and put them at their doorsteps to avoid evil. Later, people simply engraved the name of Shenque and Yu Lei on the peach board, and thought that this would also be a good evil. This peach board was later called "Peach."

In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on peach boards, one did not lose the meaning of Taomu Zhenxie, the other expressed their good wishes, and the three decorated the portal for beauty. It also writes couplets on red paper that symbolizes joy and good fortune. It is posted on both sides of the door and window during the Chinese New Year to express people's wish for the good fortune of the coming year.

In order to pray for a family's life, the people in some places still retain the habit of sticking to the gods. It is said that there are two fighting gods on the door, and all the demons and ghosts will be daunting. In the folk, fighting God is a symbol of righteousness and force. The ancients believed that people who looked strangely often had magical ambiguity and extraordinary ability. Their hearts are upright and kind, and it is their nature and responsibility to capture ghosts and devils. The people who admire the ghosts of the celestial masters, Zhong Yu, are such strange shapes. Therefore, the folk fighting spirit will always be glaring and sly, with a variety of traditional weapons in hand, ready to fight with the ghosts who dare to come to the door. Because the door to my national residence is usually two pairs, the fighting gods are always paired.

After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous gods and Yu Lei, the two people of the Tang Dynasty were used as the fighting gods. According to legend, Tang Taizong was sick and heard the ghosts outside the door, and could not rest in the night. So he let the two generals hold their weapons and stand by the door, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong painted the images of the two generals and posted them on the door. This custom began to spread widely among the people.

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