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mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

In a few days, it will be the Lunar New Year

Every house is full of lights and colors

Pasting Spring Festival, cutting window flowers, hanging New Year paintings...

The festive atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

And, of course, the God of Stickers

In the folklore of mainland traditions

Every household had to offer two kinds of gods

One is Vesta

The other is the door god

The first two days of the New Year

We just sent away Vesta (sacrificial stove)

Today, Xiaobian will nag with you

A story about the god of the door

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.
mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

It is said that there is such a special group of images

It has been enshrined and revered by people for thousands of years

Strange looking

Contrary to popular aesthetics

The value is low enough to "avoid evil"

……

They are the "door gods"

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

The God of Doors is known as the "God of The Gate Guards" in Chinese folklore.

Our ancient people's reverence for the door god has been passed down for thousands of years

As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there were records about the door gods

People attached their idols to doors

It is used to drive away evil spirits and ward off ghosts and guard the peace of the family home

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Because you want to use it to scare "ghosts"

Therefore, most of the door gods look fierce and evil

Although the value is low

But they are popular patron saints of the people

How did the custom of sticking to the door god come about?

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

There is a saying that says

The door god actually originated from the nature worship of the ancient times

The ancients thought

There are "gods" in the door and stove of the home.

As the doors are available for daily access

Status is more important

Later, it gradually evolved into a door god

The level of science and medical treatment in ancient times was relatively low

Plague diseases are a great threat to people's survival

Therefore, the door god has become a popular patron saint in the folk

Everyone is willing to celebrate the Spring Festival

In addition to the old and the new, the image of the door god is pasted

Ask them to guard their homes and ward off evil spirits

However, this god is not something you can post if you want to

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Generally speaking

The god of the door will be in the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year's Eve).

Stick it on before the Chinese New Year's Eve meal at home

And be sure to post it after the whole family arrives

According to legend, the door god is regarded as "immediately to the post"

Family members who enter the door after posting

It is possible that they will not be guarded by the door god

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Moreover, how to paste the door god is also exquisite

The door god is attached to the outermost door

Used to ward off evil spirits in the town house

The image of "Martial Gate God" is used more often

There are also affixed to the main room or compartment door in the courtyard

The representative welcomes the money into the house

The image of "Wenmen God" is often used

Double-open doors should be posted on one side

If it is a one-sided door opening

Or a very small case on one side

The door god is only attached to the door on one side

The door god also has to distinguish between left and right when posting

It must be face to face

Never back to back

No one wants to make itself

"Dilemma" in the coming year, right?

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.
mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Let's talk about the "profession" of the door god

The best combination of workers

1

"Shendi" and "Yu Lei"

In folklore

In ancient times, it became a door god earlier

It is the two gods of "Shendi" and "Yulei"

Their birth dates back to the pre-Qin period

shén

god

shū

sow thistle

sweet-smelling

rampart

In the middle of the sea, there is the mountain of Dushuo, there is a large peach tree, its three thousand miles, and the northeast of its branches is the ghost gate, and the ghosts are in and out. There are two gods and men on it, one is the god, and the other is Yu Lei, and the Lord reads and leads all the ghosts. Evil spirits, clinging to reeds and eating tigers. So the Yellow Emperor made a salute and drove it away with time. Erect a big peach man, the portal paints the gods, Yu Lei and the tiger, and the hanging reed rope to resist the fierce charm.

- The Classic of Mountains and Seas

According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas

Legend has it that there is a "Dushuo Mountain"

There is a big peach tree on the hill

In the northeast where the branches of the peach tree stretch out

There is a "ghost gate"

The two divine generals guarding this gate

It is Shendi and Yulei.

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Their duties

It is to prevent harmful ghosts from entering the homes of the world

When they encounter a bad ghost, they are caught and bundled up to feed the tiger

People use peach wood boards

Engraved on the names of the two gods "Shendi" and "Yulei"

Or portray the image

Nailed to the door to ward off evil spirits

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Interestingly

There is no fixed portrait of the two gods in the folk

Most of them look fierce and ugly

In the animated film Little Door God

Shendi and Yulei were shaped

One fat, one thin, one black and one white

It is the ancestor of the monster fighting

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Note this

The word "Lei" in Yu Lei is not read

We are familiar with "lěi"

Instead, read "lǜ"

But the bastion itself is not a polysyllabic word

Only pronounce the "rhythm" sound here

2

Roosters and tigers

It turns out that our zodiac sign also went out of the door god combination

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Two Han Dynasties, Wei and Jin

The people will also be at the door

Paste the image of the rooster and the tiger as the door god

The rooster can appear as a door god

It is because of the Pleiadian officer, one of the twenty-eight stars

It's a big rooster

The priesthood is "Si Chen's Cry"

The rooster sings the world white

It was dawn

Can this demon still stay?

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

And the reason why the tiger is a door god

That's what I said above

It is responsible for eating the evil spirits picked up by the two gods

And because the tiger is very fierce

The people believed that there was a king of the beasts guarding the door

Evil beasts and evil spirits naturally did not dare to come to the door to cause trouble

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

3

"Qin Qiong" and "Wei Chi Jingde"

These two can be said to be the "ceiling" of the Gate God Realm.

In the folk, everyone knows it

qín

Qin

qióng

Joan

officer

louse

late

jìng

respect

Give

morality

According to legend, after the "Xuanwumen Incident", Emperor Taizong of Tang often had nightmares at night, dreaming that his brothers Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, who had been killed by him, had turned into evil spirits and came to haunt him.

He remembered that the two brothers were most afraid of wei chi jingde and Qin Qiong, and in order to drive away the evil spirits, the two generals asked Miao to stay outside the Taizong Gate for a night.

That night was indeed uneventful, but Emperor Taizong could not bear that the two generals worked so hard every night, so he decided to ask the painter to paint the mighty appearance of the two fierce generals as a portrait and paste it on the door. As a result, Wei Chi Jingde became the Right Door God, and Qin Qiong became the Left Door God.

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

See Journey to the West 10th time for details

"The Ghost of the Second General Gongmen Town, the Soul of the Tang TaiZong Mansion"

That's good

The people followed suit

Please portraits of the two generals

Instead of the original Door God Town House to avoid evil

Until today

Many family door gods are still these two figures

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Speaking of "Wei Chi Jingde"

Although these four words are not strange words

However, it is a very easy person name to be mispronounced

The first is Wei Chi's "Lieutenant"

Our common pronunciation is "wèi"

But this word is put in the surname to read "yù"

There is a place in Xinjiang called Yu Plough

Also pronounced "yù" here

And the "virtue" of honorific virtue

The standard pronunciation is "dé"

But in folk literary works

For example, in Peking Opera, commentaries and other content

The word reads "děi"

Same as the word "lei" mentioned earlier

"De" itself is not a polysyllabic word

It is only in the process of folk circulation that special pronunciations are produced

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

4

"Zhong Kui" and... "Zhong Kui"

There are also those who do not form CP and do it alone

For example, "Zhong Kui"

zhōng

bell

kuí

cheekbone

Strictly speaking

Mr. Zhong is not a door god

His profession is "ghost fighting expert"

According to legend, Zhong Kui was a Scholar of the Tang Dynasty, although extremely talented, but his appearance was ugly and his career was bumpy, so Zhong Kui committed suicide and became a Yin Judge, in charge of evil spirits.

One day, Tang Xuanzong encountered a little ghost entanglement (a common disease of the royal family) in a dream, and was saved by Zhong Kui, so he ordered Wu Daozi to paint the image of Zhong Kui in his dream and promote it to the whole country. Zhong Kui quickly became a famous god of evil.

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

Some people have hung statues of Bell Kui in their homes for many years

Offerings at four o'clock

Some simply stick it on the gate in place of the door god

I hope to drive away evil spirits

Therefore, Zhong Kui was thus appointed as a door god

Spread by the people

mother! There are two "evil people" standing in front of our house.

China has been around for 5,000 years

The history of the development of the Door God is almost as long

In addition to these door gods mentioned above

There are also Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun

Bao Zheng, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, Hai Rui and so on

These images of loyalty and righteousness

They were used by the people as door gods

New Year's Eve Sticker God

This is the traditional New Year custom we Chinese

It reflects the hope that the family will be safe

A wish for an auspicious year ahead

It is also a beautiful vision for the new year

And the most modest expectations

It has not changed since ancient times

That's all there is to it

Finally, I wish you all in advance

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy family!

Good luck!

Good luck!

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Some of the materials in this article are synthesized from China News Network, National Humanities and History, Zhihu, Baidu Encyclopedia, etc

Source: Capital Education

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