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Seeing that it is about to reach the lunar new year, do you have a New Year's flavor there? I remember when I was a child, I was really looking forward to the New Year every day, there were new clothes to wear, there were firecrackers, there was money to take, there were all kinds of snacks to eat, and when it came to Chinese New Year's Eve, I would follow the adults behind to paste the Spring Festival, and then I really felt that it was a year. Today we talk about the history of Chunlian.
There is a poem in the textbook of primary school, presumably everyone has memorized, "thousands of households on the day of dawn, always replace the new peach with the old symbol", the new peach here, the old symbol is actually the earliest spring union, in the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Customs and Interpretations" recorded, the earliest spring union is actually two pieces of peach wood hanging on both sides of the gate, one writes the gods, one writes Yu Lei, these two are myths and legends of the gods, according to legend, the ghost door is set up under a peach tree, these two gods and immortals are separated, responsible for supervising the return of ghosts in the world to the underworld, so the ghosts and gods are most afraid of them. Sticking the two immortals on the gate is also for the sake of the ancestors' desire to ward off evil spirits.
Probably in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, people have begun to write some auspicious words on the peach symbol, and there are rules for rhyme, according to the "History of Song", the first true spring league in history, from the hands of the Later Shu lord Meng Chang, the spring union is "New Year Na Yu Qing, Jia Jie number Changchun", this first spring league has the spring festival that is lively. With the popularization of papermaking, paper has become common in the folk, so at this time, the form of spring league has slowly changed from peach charms to stickers.
Although Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang did not read many poems and books, he liked cultural affairs, especially liked to read the Spring Festival, and on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve of a certain year, he suddenly issued a holy decree, ordering every household to post the Spring Festival, and the next day Zhu Yuanzhang changed into civilian clothes for private visits, just to read the Spring League on the people's door. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang found on the way to a private visit that there was a family that did not post the Spring League, and when he asked, he knew that the family was a pig killer, and there was no time to ask someone to write the right thing in the New Year, so Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to write on the paper with pen and ink, "Splitting the road of life and death with both hands, cutting the root of non-existence with a knife", it can be said that without Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, perhaps the Spring League has not been so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
As a traditional culture that has been passed down for thousands of years, the artistry and literature of the Spring League make it have a high inheritance value, on the other hand, the Spring League carries the new year flavor in the bones of the Chinese, the big red paper is written with vigorous and powerful calligraphy, two auspicious words read out of the Atmosphere of the New Year, less paste the Spring League This activity is really less interesting.