The question of removing the fu on Chinese New Year s Eve, the introduction of the expulsion day

The Nu sacrifice is a local religious ritual activity carried out by shamans in order to exorcise ghosts and worship gods, and to ward off evil spirits and epidemics. Among them, the Nu opera is a combination of Nu song and Nu dance, and it is more local in nature. The written record of the Nu sacrifice began from the "Zhou Li", but its development can be far from the ancient times of our country, with a strong sense of primitive totem worship, and in the subsequent historical development process, the content of the Wu sacrifice activities have also had different developments.

From the Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period,The festival is held with the consent of the imperial court, and the time is generally set on the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, and the exorcism ceremony is held before Chinese New Year's Eve, which means to remove the bad luck of the old year and usher in the anticipation of the new year. On the day of the festival, a group of young and middle-aged men, dressed in special dresses and mysterious masks with different appearances, will hold lit torches, dance exaggerated dances, shout loudly, and then march to the river while jumping, and throw the torches into the water, which means throwing all the bad luck of the year into the river.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, the content of the ritual developed in different directions, and began to add a lot of entertainment. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the scale of the Nu sacrifice has developed to a very grand scale, in addition to the evil and the epidemic, the Tang Dynasty Nu sacrifice also allowed the people with masks to participate in the activities together, they could wear masks and sing and dance. In the Song Dynasty, the sacrifice was already close to the ancient Spring Festival Gala, there were performances, singing, storytelling, and drumming, and the common people often watched, at this time the meaning of religious sacrifice has been relatively weak.

However, with the development and progress of society, modern ideas have also been popularized, and the ritual of exorcising evil spirits has gradually disappeared, and only in some remote mountainous areas and literary works can you get a glimpse of the slightest trace. One of the more well-known should be the "Border City" that was selected into the high school textbook, in which there is a handsome young man - the heroine Cuicui's sweetheart sent the second elder, and his name was given because of the god of Wu.

It is an ancient ritual to get rid of evil spirits. During the ceremony, the masked man plays the role of the god who drives away the plague, called the god of the plague, and performs some dance moves.

This is a relatively old sacrifice, it is more popular in Jiangxi, Guizhou and other places, in which the god they want to worship is called the god of Wu, and they remove the plague through repeated and large dances.

It is during the Chinese New Year that some people wear a willow mask representing the god of Wu, and through exaggerated dances, express the sacrifice to drive away the plague and plague.

Han folk, on the day before or on the day of the Laba Festival, there is a custom of driving away the epidemic. It is an important part of a series of Han folk activities at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. It has become a ritual system in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

It is said that the history of folk stalls and vendors in history, and the content of folk stalls in each period reflects many events at that time.

That is, the history of folk stalls.

Folk customs is a common and very unique cultural phenomenon in human society, it is a long historical and cultural inheritance, and it is a kind of beliefs, legends, behaviors and customs that have been passed along with civil society. It is like a mirror, reflecting the social landscape of various eras. Judging from the literature and archaeological data, social folklore has been produced as early as the ignorance period of mankind.

At that time, the social productivity was extremely low, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the sun, the moon and the stars, birth, old age, sickness and death, etc., and the primitive social folk customs were born.

China's Nu culture has formed a specialized academic field, and it can be said that a book is not enough to discuss this topic. The connotation of Chinese Nu culture is extremely rich, diverse and complex, the form is ever-changing, and many phenomena of traditional culture are inextricably linked with China's Nu culture, but we are familiar with it and do not know it. For example, Erlang God, Guan Gong Worship, Shehuo, Jiao Fighting, Mask Art, Medicine King Worship, Peach Blossom Worship, Zhong Kui, etc., can all be classified into the Nu cultural system.

China's Nu culture is both long and facing a great dilemma of survival, many Nu cultural forms have been on the verge of extinction, and China has declared the Nu culture as a world intangible cultural heritage project.

Scholars specializing in the study of Nu culture have pointed out that Nu culture is a cultural form that integrates multiple religions (including primitive nature worship and religion), a variety of folk customs and a variety of arts in traditional Chinese culture, including Nu rituals, Nu customs, Nu songs, Nu dances, Nu operas, and Nu arts. Its superficial purpose is to drive away ghosts and epidemics, eliminate disasters and be auspicious, while the connotation is to achieve the harmony of yin and yang, wind and rain, good harvest, abundant life, rich country and strong people and peace in the world through various ritual activities. It is still active or remnants of the Han nationality and more than 20 ethnic minorities in the vast area, involving 245 provinces and autonomous regions.