The Spring Festival is the most important festival in our traditional culture and the most grand festival. During the Spring Festival, every household will post a pair of Spring Festival leagues at their doorstep, and pasting spring leagues is also one of the customs activities that must be carried out during the Spring Festival.
Spring League is very important in people's hearts, not only the decorations of the Spring Festival to express joy, but also people's good wishes for the new year and an emotional sustenance for the coming year.
We will post the Spring Festival Every year, but do you know that the folk ancestors have the custom of "three must be posted" in the Spring League?
When the old ancestors posted the Spring Festival, there was such a saying, that is, "If there is a god, it will be pasted, every door will be pasted, and everything will be pasted." The old ancestors believed that only when the Spring League was posted everywhere in the home, life would be as prosperous and happy as the blessings on the Spring League.
So, what kind of exquisiteness is this "three must-stickers" mentioned by the ancestors?
First of all, let's talk about "God will stick."
Ancient ancestors out of reverence for nature, so created many gods, until people's production and life reached a certain level, such a concept has also been influencing future generations. Therefore, people will think that even the family will have the protection of the gods.
For example, the stove fire has the blessing of the stove god; if there is a well in the house, then there will be a well god protection and so on. In order to show their reverence for these "gods" who live in their homes, and also to pray for the safety of their homes, the ancestors of the people will also paste couplets in various places where gods are infested.
For example, to worship the land, the couplet of "white jade is born in the soil, gold is produced in the earth" is pasted in front of the shrine of the land god; for example, the place where the god of wealth is offered in the home, it will be affixed with "The lord of wealth in heaven, the god of blessing on earth"; the wellhead will also be affixed with a couplet of "the well can pass through the four seas, and the home can reach the three rivers", and so on.
Then we will say that the second must be posted, that is, "every door must be posted".
In ancient times, every household was a small yard, even if there was no small yard, it was all bungalows, and the kitchen, utility room, etc. at home were separated. Unlike now, many people live in residential buildings with only one door.
At that time, people thought that all doors had to be labeled with couplets. For example, the kitchen should be pasted with the Spring League of "one person skillfully eats a thousand people, and the five flavors are mixed with baiweixiang"; as a granary and a pen for livestock, people will also paste single couplets such as "Five Grains and Fengdeng" and "Six Animals Prosperity", or couplets such as "cattle like Nanshan tigers, horses like Beihai dragons".
Nowadays, most people post a pair of Spring Leagues on the door of their homes, and rarely paste Spring Leagues in the kitchen and bedroom. This is due to the different living environments of people, which has led to changes in customs.
The third is "everything must be posted".
The so-called "everything must be pasted", that is, people will also paste the Spring Festival on many items in the home. However, according to current customs, the Spring League posted on items is generally a four-character single link.
For example, people will post "look up to see the joy" on the wall, or "go out to see the joy" outside the gate, people in the rural yard will paste "full of courtyard gold", and some people will also paste the Spring Festival on their wardrobes. Nowadays, with the enrichment of people's material life, many people will buy a car, so people will also paste the Spring League on the car, there are single couplets, there are couplets, and most of the Spring Leagues on the car are meant by "entering and leaving peace".
In fact, the "three must stickers" of the Spring League mentioned by the ancestors, even if most people do not know, will subtly abide by such an old tradition.
With simple, confrontational and exquisite words, the Spring League pins on the family's beautiful wishes for the New Year, and it is also the folk culture inherited by the ancestors. In addition, the background color of the couplet is red, and in traditional culture, red is an auspicious color that is auspicious and wards off evil spirits. It is precisely because the Spring Festival contains good blessings, so the customs of the Spring Festival can last forever!