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The legend of the Spring Festival: paste the Spring Festival couplets.

It is said that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in the Later Shu period more than a thousand years ago, which is evidenced by history. In addition, according to the records of "Jade Candle Treasure Book", "Yanjing Years Chronicle" and other works, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach charms".

In ancient Chinese mythology, it is said that there is a world of ghosts, in which there is a mountain, on which there is a large peach tree covering 3,000 miles, and there is a golden rooster on the treetop. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghosts that wander out at night will drive back to the ghost realm. The gate of the ghost domain is located in the northeast of the peach tree, and there are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Yu Lei.

If the ghost did something unreasonable at night, Shen Tu and Yu Lei would immediately find out and catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and send it to feed the tiger. Therefore, the ghosts of the world are afraid of the gods and gloom. So the people carved their appearance with peach wood and placed it at the door of their house to ward off evil and prevent harm.

Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei on the peach wood board, believing that this could also suppress evil and eliminate evil. This kind of peach plank was later called "peach charm".

In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the peach board, one does not lose the meaning of the peach wood to suppress evil, the second expresses their good wishes, and the third decorates the portal in order to be beautiful. Couplets are also written on red paper symbolizing joy and auspiciousness, and pasted on both sides of doors and windows on the occasion of the New Year to express people's good wishes for good fortune in the coming year.

1. The legend of the Spring Festival "New Year": In ancient times, there was a monster called "Nian", which resembled a dog, and came out to make trouble every 30th year of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar. A lot of people are affected by it, and people are very scared at this time of year!

However, with the passage of time, people later found out that they were afraid of the sound of firecrackers, so whenever it was about to come out, people set off firecrackers to scare it, telling it not to dare to go down the mountain to harm people. Therefore, people can spend this time in peace, and this time is called "New Year".

2. The legend of "eating dumplings and counting Xiangzi" during the Spring Festival: There are many legends about eating dumplings during the Spring Festival, one is to commemorate the opening of the world by Pangu and the end of the mixed state, and the other is to take the homonym of it and "hoarding", which means "full of food".

During the Spring Festival, many families have the habit of keeping a vigil on Chinese New Year's Eve. But many people don't know the origin of this Spring Festival custom. In fact, this custom of keeping the New Year comes from a legend about the Spring Festival.

This legend is called "staying up and keeping the year". Staying up and keeping the year are synonymous, which means that on Chinese New Year's Eve, the lights are bright, and the family keeps the year together and waits for the dawn of the new year. According to folklore, there is a fierce beast called Sui, who attacks the village every 365 days.

The common people calculated the time of the "year" attack, and on this day, the families gathered together, the lights were lit all night long, and at the same time, firecrackers were set off to drive away the beasts.

The festival that everyone is most looking forward to is probably the Spring Festival, so do you know the legend about the Spring Festival?