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Do you remember the tiger head shoes you wore when you were a child, and the cloth tigers at the temple fair,,,? in fact, in normal times, we almost forgot these traditional arts, but in this lunar festival, we remembered the strong New Year's flavor!
The Year of the Tiger is coming. Words related to tigers began to come to our minds, and decorations related to tigers were scattered throughout the streets. In our traditional culture, the tiger is a symbol of majesty and strength, and it is also the object of worship by the common people, so in Chinese folk art, there are many forms of expression about the tiger.
If you want to have a Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, please invite the tiger's "tiger" home.
Tiger head shoes, in the past in the countryside, smart mothers will personally embroider tiger head shoes for their children, and the children who wear tiger head shoes are also majestic. The beautiful cloth shoes that he made by hand are now only available in memory.
Tiger pillow, there is a saying: "Pillow pillow tiger pillow, a hundred diseases do not go to the body". With such a mighty tiger to accompany, of course, you can avoid evil and ensure peace. It's also a good toy for kids! In the past, the cloth tiger bought at the New Year's festival of Thousand Buddha Mountain and Daming Lake was filled with buckwheat skin, which was very heavy and tight. If you make it yourself, you can also make a soft pillow.
The tiger is a symbol of health, people use the "tiger head tiger brain", "living dragon and living tiger" metaphorically the strength of the body; the tiger symbolizes the mighty and majestic martial arts, the "Book of Poetry, Lu Song Panshui" calls the brave warrior a "delicate tiger chen", and the "Shang Shu Mu Oath" says that the king of Wu has "three hundred tigers";
Cloth tiger is a traditional Chinese folk art that is widely spread in Chinese folklore. The existence of the cloth tiger stems from the worship of the tiger by the common people. Tiger worship originated in the Fuxi period. In the book "New Exploration of the Source of Chinese Civilization", it is said: "Fuxi was originally a tiger totem, and after the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were historians who thought that the dragon was the true destiny of the heavenly son. It can be seen that the tiger totem originated from Fuxi and preceded the dragon totem. During the Fifth Dragon Boat Festival at the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it is popular to make cloth tigers for children, or to draw tiger faces on children's foreheads with male yellow, implying health, strength and bravery.
The earliest shape of the cloth tiger can no longer be studied, but its appearance is closely related to some customs circulated by mainland folk. Nowadays, people still love the hand-sewn cloth tiger, because on its body, it not only reflects the unique ingenuity and ingenuity of Chinese women, but also the expectations and blessings of the older generation for the new generation.
From the stitches of folk "artists", they sewed their love into it. Folk cloth tigers do not have a unified specification style, and the skillful women have created cloth tigers with different forms according to their own aesthetic concepts because of the different materials at hand.
For example, in the Yi people, men called Luo Po (male tiger) and women called Luo Mo (female tiger) During the ancestral worship ceremony, the shamans painted a red bottom plate on the convex side of the gourd scoop to paint the head of the black tiger. The Naxi people also take the tiger as their ancestor, and the beginning of the Dongba Sutra depicts the head of the black tiger, and the ancestor worship also worships the black tiger head. The Tujia family revered the White Tiger and considered himself to be the queen of the Emperor.
The Later Han Dynasty Book of southern Manchu Southwest Yi lie records the story of Liu Jun's struggle with the salt god for his people and the shooting of the salt god. "When the emperor dies, his soul is a white tiger."
The tiger also symbolizes power, the state uses soldier symbols, and the festivals held by envoys going abroad are all named "tiger symbols" and "tiger festivals" in the name of the tiger characters. The "tiger symbol" is made of copper, divided into two halves, half stored in the imperial court, half paid to foreign officials, the imperial court has some things to send envoys to hold half a symbol, to the foreign official to issue an order, half in line with the truth, that is, the order, it can be seen that the "tiger symbol" represents the highest military authority.
The tiger is also a symbol of disaster relief and evil, and the "Customs and Customs" said: "In ancient times, there were two brothers, Shen Cha and Yu Lei, who were obsessed with ghosts. The peach tree on the mountain of Dushuo is often read by a hundred ghosts. The ghost is unreasonable, and shencha and Yulei hold a reed rope and insist on feeding the tiger. It is the old county official who often sacrifices the night with wax, decorating the peach man, hanging the reed rope, painting the tiger at the door, and fighting against the murderer. "It can be seen that from the time of the emperor, he painted a tiger and pasted it on the door to ward off evil spirits and ensure peace with the royal murderer to protect the house.
The cloth tiger has a large head, a long tail, and a majestic shape. The whole body is painted with tabby, and the word "King" is decorated on the top of the head. It originally had eyeballs embedded in its eyes, which have now fallen off. This cloth tiger can be used as a toy during the day and as a pillow at night, which is both beautiful and real.
In addition to the Dragon Boat Festival, in the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other festivals, as well as newborn babies "wash three" (when the baby is born for three days), 100 days, first birthday, two birthdays, people often do various forms of cloth tigers, also has the beautiful meaning of exorcism, disease removal, and blessing.
The main production areas of cloth tigers are concentrated in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. It has been circulated in 17 cities in Shandong, especially Weifang, Linyi, Binzhou, Jiaozhou, Jining and Zaozhuang. There are many different versions of the legend about the origin of the cloth tiger. According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a large peach tree with a branch bent and stretched for three thousand miles on the Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, which has been extending to the ghost gate in the southeast, and the ghosts and spirits in the cave must enter and exit from it. Under the tree, there are two brothers who will guard it, named Shendi and Yulei, and the two people are incomparably large and skilled. The brothers tamed the tigers on the mountain and ordered them to take care of the peach trees. Through their hard work, the peach tree grew into a leafy tree, and seeing that the peach was about to ripen, a group of evil spirits rushed up the mountain in an attempt to grab the peach.
The brothers commanded the tigers to fight with the ghosts, the older brother knocked the ghosts down with peach sticks, and the younger brother tied the ghosts with reed ropes. Knock over one, tie one, and the tiger will eat one! After a while, most of the evil spirits were eliminated, and the remaining evil spirits saw that the situation was not good and fled in a daze. The battle was won, and the names of Shendi and Yulei spread throughout the world. The tiger's fame also shook greatly, becoming the king of the hundred beasts, the nemesis of the evil ghost, a symbol of strength and bravery, and regarded by the ancestors as a sacred beast.
In addition, in folk dialects, "tiger" and "fu" are harmonious, and there are cultural connotations such as blessing, town house, and wealth. Therefore, tiger-shaped artifacts are often used by people to ward off evil spirits.
The cloth tiger has no sharp horns and hard thorns, highlighting the beauty of the lump, in line with the common modeling rules of folk toys, showing a simple beauty and simple beauty. In the Yishui countryside, the cloth tiger grew up with small dolls, which were toys during the day and pillows at night. Children's pillow This kind of pillow is not easy to fall on the pillow, very comfortable.
The color of cloth tigers in Shandong is mainly red and yellow, and yellow and red are also festive and auspicious colors in the traditional culture of the north of the mainland. However, yishui cloth tiger does not stick to the two main colors of yellow and red in terms of color, and also uses black, blue, white, flower, blue soil cloth and blue printed cloth. The contrast of color blocks is strong, warm and bright, making the image of the whole cloth tiger vivid and vivid.
Cloth tigers across Shandong focus on the design of the head, with a wide mouth, white sharp teeth, and two thick teeth that are exposed to both sides to show the majesty of the tiger. But the corners of the mouth are bent upwards, as if there is a giggle, coupled with black and white bulbous eyes, the black and black "king" word on the brain gate, and the king of the beasts becomes cute.
In addition, the process of making cloth tigers is also different. For example, the inside of the tiger's belly is filled with sawdust, bran and cotton, and some are filled with silkworm sand, mugwort leaves or buckwheat and pea skins in the tiger's belly. The abdominal fillings of Yishui Cloth Tiger include various Chinese medicines such as thorn seeds, peach branches, chrysanthemums, wormwood, astragalus, male yellow, angelica, cinnabar and so on. In addition to the theory of avoiding evil in the town house, there are also the effects of dispelling rheumatism, strengthening the brain and strengthening the kidneys, calming the mind and calming the mind, and aromatic insect repellent.
In the Yishui countryside of Shandong Province, the cloth tiger made for children uses the remaining corner material left over from the clothes, which is convenient to use, the color is bright, the shape is exaggerated and deformed, the emphasis is on sending love meaning, and the pursuit of god-like and not sticking to the characteristics of shape, achieving the purpose of pleasant and interesting. It not only reflects the peasant consciousness and folk culture mentality, but also has a decorative effect, emphasizing festive colors. What is particularly interesting is this cloth tiger, except that the word "king" on the tiger's head can represent the tiger's identity as the king of the beasts, the round and convex eyes, the straight ears, the curved upturned tail, and the thick and short legs are almost the same as the cat. It can make people feel both the mighty majesty of the tiger and the delicacy and innocence of the cat. Swollen, chubby, very likable.
Cloth tiger is made by folk pure hand, so there is no unified specification style, and the skillful women use different materials at hand to sew cloth tigers with different shapes and forms according to their imagination and aesthetics. The cloth tiger they sewed changed the original shape of the tiger, exaggerated the head of the cloth tiger in form, the size of the tiger's head was almost the same as the tiger's body, greatly contracted the tiger's body and tail, shortened the four legs, and highlighted the eyes, mouth, legs and tail are mostly relatively short, with a large head, large eyes, large mouth, and small body to highlight the brave and majestic demeanor of the cloth tiger, highlighting the traditional art style of "not looking like, but seeking god-like".
In the past, medicine was not developed, and newborn dolls died a lot, and it was really not easy to raise a child to become an adult. Villagers believe that the death of their children is a demon, and the tiger is considered a symbol of great power, capable of subduing everything. Therefore, people regard the tiger as the protector of the healthy growth of the doll. The women made some tigers out of cloth and put them at home. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the prepared cloth tiger is loaded with mugwort leaves and sewn on the shoulders of the dolls, called "Ai Hu", which is used to "suppress evil and eliminate evil". At the same time, the parenting custom of sending tiger pillows is popular in the Lunan area. Newborns are strangled at 8-12 days of life, usually the 9th day of girls and 12 days of boys. It is commonly known as "Nine Hanging Niangniang Ten Hanging Officials, Twelve Stranded Is a Champion", and some are "Nine Stranded Niangniang Eight Hanged Officials, Twelve Stranded Are Champions". Grandma came to hang her head and sent a cloth tiger to show her blessing.
"The cow wagged its tail and went away, and the Fuhu Xianrui came into the house", qilu one point number [moon on the west building] the author congratulates everyone on the year of the tiger, the tiger is full of energy! Be in good health! On the occasion of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, in short, I wish friends all the strength of the tiger! Tiger Power! Tiger Power!
One Point Moon on the West Building