After a day of cleaning, every household is brand new, and tomorrow we will put on new peach charms, couplets, etc., which will look spiritual.

The next morning, many people were holding red papers, which were all red paper in couplets, but there were no words on them. They have to get some elders who are highly respected and have good calligraphy.

Now, many rural areas directly buy those with words, and you can post them immediately when you go back, so you don't have to worry so much, you don't care, let some old people write all day long, and you can't get by. Chujiazhai still retains this tradition, and under normal circumstances, it is presided over by Mr. Liu, the clan elder, the old village chief and others.

After noon, the second aunt used tapioca flour and boiling water to make a paste, which was used to paste couplets and so on. The second uncle got a ladder, otherwise it was not high enough.

As long as it is on the side of the new house, Chu Jiaqiang can change the peach charm. The peach charm is different from the couplet, etc., and it is specially pasted on the door, which is what everyone calls the door god.

First of all, the second uncle pasted on it, and Chu Jiaqiang watched it below.

"A little more, a little higher on the left." Chu Jiaqiang said. He is down there just to observe, to see if the horizontal criticism above is correct or not, which is very important.

Subsequently, there are Spring Festival couplets on both sides: "The fortune of the southeast and northwest has arrived, and the blessings of spring, summer, autumn and winter are coming!" ”

Spring Festival couplets are also known as "door pairs" and "spring posts", which are a kind of couplets, because they are posted during the Spring Festival, hence the name. One of the sources of the Spring Festival couplets is the peach charm. At first, people carved human figures in peach wood and hung them next to the door to ward off evil spirits, and later painted the image of the door god on the peach wood, and then simplified it to inscribe the name of the door god on the peach wood board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets. The real popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in the Ming Dynasty and was related to Zhu Yuanzhang's advocacy.

Originally, the Spring Festival couplets were inscribed on a peach board, and later rewritten on paper. The color of peach wood is red, and red has the meaning of auspiciousness and warding off evil, so most of the Spring Festival couplets are written on red paper. However, the temple uses yellow paper, and the system is guarded with white, green, and yellow. In the first year, white paper was used, green paper was used in the second year, yellow paper was used in the third year, and red paper was restored in the fourth year when the mourning clothes were full. Because the Manchus are still white, the Qing court Spring Festival couplets use white paper. The blue border is wrapped on the outside. The red bar is set inside.

After posting, I went to Chu Jiaqiang's old house, but Chu Jiaqiang could do it alone, after all, it was just a few door gods.

The door god is a kind of painting that was pasted on the door during the Lunar New Year in the old days. It is a deity who guards the gateway of the common belief of Taoism and folk. In the old days, people pasted their idols on the door to ward off evil spirits, defend the house, keep peace, and help utilitarianism. It is one of the most popular protector gods among the people.

The birthday of the god of the door is the fifteenth day of the first month, and the folk have the custom of worshipping the door god and posting the door god at the gate during the Spring Festival.

Some famous traditional woodcut prints are also famous for printing door god prints, such as Yangliuqing, Weifang and Taohuawu. The door god is also colorful, some wear tiger helmets, some wear robes to wear, and the New Year's paintings are also decorated with festive patterns such as jue deer, bat joy, BMW, bottle saddle, etc. to pray for good fortune.

The original door god was carved into peach wood in the shape of a person, so it was also called a peach charm, hanging next to the person, and later it was painted as a door god and posted on the door.

The legendary Shen Tu and Yu Lei brothers specialize in ghosts, and they have them

Hold the portal. Big and small evil ghosts don't dare to get started. In the Tang Dynasty, another door god appeared, that is, Zhong Kui, who not only hunted ghosts, but also ate ghosts, so people often pasted Zhong Kui's image on the door on Chinese New Year's Eve or Dragon Boat Festival. It is used to suppress demons and destroy demons.

Later, there were two portraits of fierce generals Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde as door gods. There are also paintings of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as door gods. The door god statue is a left and right household, and the descendants often draw a pair of door gods as a text and a martial arts.

Legend has it that the two brothers, Shen Tu and Yu Lei, lived in the ancient Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, and there were hundreds of ghosts on the mountain. The two brothers, Shen Tu and Yu Lei, have great magical powers and are good at subduing ghosts. They strictly restricted the activities of ghosts, and at the end of each year, they stood under a big tree to inspect the hundred ghosts, and when they saw a fierce ghost that was harmful to people, they tied it up with a special "reed rope" that could not be broken free, so that the gods and tigers who specialize in eating evil ghosts could satisfy their hunger and eliminate harm for the people.

However, the abilities of Shen Tu and Yu Lei are limited, and they cannot eliminate all the evil ghosts in the world. Nor can it guarantee the safety of every household.

So the Yellow Emperor announced an order to the whole country, on the eve of the Spring Festival, every household should use peach stalks to carve statues of gods and gods, and hang them in front of the door on Chinese New Year's Eve. At the same time, a reed rope is hung at the upper end of the gate, and a tiger is drawn on the second gate to avoid the infestation of demons and monsters.

Later, people thought that the wood carving people were troublesome, so they directly painted two statues of gods on the peach wood, inscribed the names of the gods and Yu Lei, and hung them on both sides of the door on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve to suppress evil spirits, which was the original peach charm.

Later, everyone simply used paper instead, drew the door god on it, and then pasted it on the door.

Chu Jiaqiang told Jackton and the others who were watching next to him that there were three categories of door gods.

The first type is the "gate god", which is mostly attached to the door of the car or the entire door, about four or five feet high and about two or three feet wide.

The second type is the "street door god", which is mostly attached to the small street door, about two feet high and about one foot wide. These two door gods are two gods, one with a black face and one with a white face. White left and black right, white good and easy, black and evil, each holding a lance.

The third type is the "house door god", which is slightly smaller and more limited than the street door god, and it is also a black and white god, but there are also black and white gods who are seated statues. The door of the house is at most pasted with the image of "unicorn sending children", two dolls of Fu powder grease comb crown of the prince, each riding a unicorn. This kind of door god should have been pasted on the door of the newly married house to take good fortune, and later it was also used as a New Year's decoration for ordinary street doors.

"Hey, hey! Don't make a mistake, girl! Chu Jiaqiang saw that Chu Jiawan was holding one, and he was about to stick it on the right door, but he hurriedly stopped it.

"Look! From the perspective of the person entering the door, it is pasted on both sides of the door, and the door god in the painting regards the face as the correct traditional paste. Otherwise, the door god will post it incorrectly. Chu Jiaqiang continued.

When Chu Jiawan heard this, she hurriedly posted it to the left door.

Then, it was the turn of the word "blessing". Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which entrusts people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future.

In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply paste the word "blessing" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived". Some people also explain that blessings fall from the sky, that is, they come down.

Folk also have the word "Fu" delicately depicted into a variety of patterns, the patterns have birthday star, longevity peach, carp jumping dragon gate, grain harvest, dragon and phoenix Chengxiang and so on.