The Origin of Spring Festival Shooting
The Spring Festival is coming, and families are about to start purchasing new year's goods, among which firecrackers are the most important. Basically, every household should purchase firecrackers, whether it's sweeping graves or Chinese New Year. So, why set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival?
There are only three theories about the origin of shooting during the Spring Festival. By the way, introduce a custom of shooting during the Spring Festival. Let's take a look:
First,? What is the origin of shooting during the Spring Festival?
? One of the origins of Spring Festival Gala shooting: "Shan Sao"?
When it comes to the origin of firecrackers, we have to mention an animal named "Shan Sao". When people camp in the wild deep in the forest, they will light bonfires. In order to prevent the invasion of hawthorn, people lit bamboo in the bonfire and scared it away with the crack of bamboo.
It is said that the smell of surf will make people feel cold and suffer from the ghost of cold and heat diseases. Using firecrackers to scare away mountains is to drive away evil spirits, so as to get good luck and peace. Later, with the appearance of gunpowder, people began to burn saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal in bamboo tubes, so the "deflagration war" came into being. Since the Song Dynasty, people have replaced bamboo tubes with paper tubes and hemp sticks wrapped in gunpowder, which has become "firecrackers".
"Jing Chu Ji nian" records: "the first day of the first month, the day of three yuan. It is said that at the end of the month, chickens crow and firecrackers are burned in front of the court to eliminate mountain evils. " This is also the origin of people setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival.
? The Second Origin of Spring Festival Shooting: "Nian" Beast?
According to legend, in ancient China, there was a monster named Nian, with a long, pointed head and an unusually fierce appearance. Nian beast has lived under the sea for many years. Every New Year's Eve, it crawls ashore to devour livestock and kill people. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, people help the old and take care of the young and flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of Nian beast. It is said that Nian beast has a big head and a small body, and it is more than ten feet long. Its eyes are like two bells, coming and going like the wind. When it is called, it sounds "year after year", hence the name Nian Beast.
A fierce monster called Nian goes from one house to another every year1February 30th, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. On the night of the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Nian came to a village. It happened that two cowboys were fighting for a whip. Nian suddenly heard the sound of whipping in mid-air and ran away in fear.
Knowing that Nian was afraid of ringing, people tried to use firecrackers to resist it, which gradually evolved into setting off firecrackers in the Spring Festival today, which is also the origin of people setting off firecrackers in the Spring Festival later.
? The Third Origin of Spring Festival Shooting: Jiang Ziya?
Setting off firecrackers has something to do with Jiang Ziya. According to legend, Jiang Ziya helped Zhou Wuwang destroy the Shang Dynasty and seal the king, so he went to the altar to seal the gods. All the heroes were sealed, but his wife, Ma Shi, came. While Jiang Ziya was fishing in Weishui, waiting for Zhou Wenwang, his wife thought he was poor and stomped away. Now the world is going to be closed, and when she came to ask for the throne, she said angrily, if you are a jinx, you can only stay for 30 nights, and you can drill wherever it is dark. Later, firecrackers were set off in the New Year just to break bad luck and leave her nowhere to hide.
In the southern minority areas, bamboo poles and branches are burned during the Chinese New Year, which makes some noise. According to ancient records, firecrackers were originally called firecrackers, which means that burning bamboo makes a noise. With gunpowder, especially after the improvement of papermaking technology, it has become fashionable to use paper as a gun. Especially a string of small whips, almost all made of paper and gunpowder, are woven together like whips, so there is the saying of firecrackers.
Second,? The custom of shooting during the Spring Festival?
China has the folk custom of "setting off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.
Wang Anshi's poem Yuan Ri:?
Except for the one-year-old in firecrackers,
The spring breeze warmed the Tusu people. ?
Thousands of families have a bright future.
Always trade new peaches for old ones. ?
This song describes the scene of people celebrating the Spring Festival in the Song Dynasty: the spring breeze warms them, the sun rises, every family lights firecrackers, and the whole family faces east, drinking Tu Su wine, busy taking off the old peach symbol on the door and replacing it with a new peach symbol with a door god. The author chooses these typical Spring Festival holiday scenes to show a picture of China folk customs with a strong flavor of life.
When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". At this time, the streets are full of anger and joy.
The customs of the Spring Festival are different between the north and the south, but one thing is basically the same, that is, family reunion, visiting relatives and friends, visiting elders and so on. I hope we can remember these customs full of affection and good wishes and pass them on from generation to generation.