On the fifteenth day of the first month, a red light is hung
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao led the rebel army north and attacked Huncheng, which could not be captured for three days.
Huang Chao secretly entered the city to inquire and was saved by an old man.
The old man also told Huang Chao how to attack the city.
Huang Chao was very touched and said, "Old man, do you have red paper at home?" The old man said, "There is nothing readily available, but you can buy it in the store."
Huang Chao said, "You buy a few pieces of red paper, tie a lantern, and hang it on the eaves on the fifteenth day of the first month."
After Huang Chao left, the old man passed the news to the neighbors, one pass ten, ten passed on a hundred, and soon the poor people in the city knew about it, and the family bought red paper to tie lanterns.
Huang Chao returned to the camp, immediately summoned the generals to discuss, and on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the summer calendar, with five thousand elite soldiers, touched the moat, and quietly entered the city according to the road pointed out by the old man, with a trumpet cannon, attacked inside and outside, quickly broke through the city gate, and the rebel army entered the city!
At this time, red lights were hung in front of the homes of the poor people, and the whole city was brightly lit.
Wherever red lanterns are hung, the rebels are not allowed to enter; Without hanging up the red light, the rebel army rushed in to seize the stolen officials and old wealth, and killed the corrupt officials and local tycoons and inferior gentry in just one night.
The next day, Huang Chao opened a warehouse to distribute grain, and sent someone to send two hundred taels of silver to the old man.[3]
Since then, every fifteenth day of the first month, every household has hung a red light.
This custom has been passed down.
Dragon Boat Festival" wormwood
Huang Chao's rebel army attacked the Central Plains at the time of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Local officials let out a wind voice: "Huang Chao shook the knife across the mountain, and the head landed on the ground!" Mobilizing people to flee their homes is to "walk the yellow nest".
To contain the growing trend of the rebel army.
In a certain family in the Central Plains, the men were all out, and there was only one woman and two children in the family, one child was born to her own child, and one child was the orphan of her sister-in-law.
Her own child was just able to walk, and her sister-in-law's orphan was a year older than her own.
The woman fled with her second child, carrying her sister-in-law's orphan on her back, but let her newborn child walk on foot, but fell behind.
Not far away, I met a man dressed in yellow and asked, "Why doesn't my sister-in-law let the eldest child walk, but let the younger child walk?" The woman told the truth, and the yellow-clad man was very touched after hearing this, saying: "You have done the thing of loyalty and righteousness in the midst of danger, and you have broken the knife of the Yellow Nest, and the Yellow Nest can no longer take your head, in fact, you only need to insert wormwood at the door of your home, indicating that your family is a loyal and righteous family, and the Yellow Nest will have no choice but you."
I didn't even think about it.
The woman thought that the immortals were pointing, so she went home and did as she was told, and along the way asked the fleeing people to insert wormwood to break the sword cloud of the yellow nest.
Therefore, women are usually kind and do many good deeds, and many people believe that yiyan inserts wormwood in front of their homes without "walking the yellow nest" and spends the Dragon Boat Festival at home.
Sure enough, the rebels crossed the border and saw the homes of the people who planted wormwood in their homes, no one disturbed them, and the doctors accompanying the army also treated the people and asked about their suffering. For a while, the story of women encountering the guidance of immortals spread everywhere, and the homes of the commoners, no longer "walking the yellow nest", planted wormwood for the Dragon Boat Festival, and followed the women to do the things of loyalty and righteousness.
In fact, the yellow-clad man was a forward strategist of the Yellow Nest Rebel Army, and his martial arts were strong.
Everywhere the rebels went, there were no man's villages, and the rebels had no support and became a lone army.
The counselor, knowing that something was wrong, disguised himself into plain clothes, searched for the cause alone, and met the woman.
Suddenly, I disappeared, but I jumped up to the tree and hid it.
The strategist Xiao Shi made a plan, not only broke the official government's "Yellow Nest across the mountain to shake the knife, the head of the person landed!" Rumors, for the rebels to gain the support of the people, but also to the people to accumulate virtue and good deeds into the custom, the world then inherited this tradition, become today's Dragon Boat Festival "wormwood" customs.