Detailed explanation of the origin and meaning of the custom of "sticking window flowers" during the Spring Festival
Introduction: The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival with a history of more than 4,000 years. The customs and activities of the Spring Festival are very wonderful and vary from place to place, reflecting the differences in national culture. There is a custom of pasting window flowers during the Spring Festival, and this custom has a history of thousands of years. In this issue, the editor will introduce in detail the origin and meaning of the custom of pasting window flowers during the Spring Festival. Let’s learn about it together! A year's plan begins with spring, and the Spring Festival is an important traditional festival of ours. Do you want to know more about the Spring Festival? Come and take a look at the Spring Festival special topic carefully prepared by Mr. Shui Mo!Spring Festival customs: pasting window decorationsWindow paper-cuts are folk paper-cut artworks with various colors and patterns. This folk custom with rich national characteristics has a history of thousands of years. Shanxi folk paper-cutting, especially window paper-cutting, is full of Shanxi folk flavor and strong local flavor. Patterns such as "magpie climbing on plum tree", "two dragons playing with a pearl", "peacock spreading its tail", "goddess scattering flowers" and various patterns of flowers, insects, fish and birds express the farmers' beautiful hopes for their future life. Window paper-cuts, with their unique method of generalization and exaggeration, express auspicious events and good wishes vividly, and decorate the festival with splendor and joy. Window paper-cuts are usually put up after sweeping the house.Detailed explanation of the origin and legend of the custom of pasting window paper-cutsA scream was heard, followed by several shrill and strange howls. The Golden Crow was seen spinning rapidly and flying upwards. The wing on its back had been cut off in half at an angle. Golden blood splashed from the wound like a whirlwind of rain, and the place where it fell instantly became a sea of molten fire. When Zhuanxu saw this, he shouted, "Where are you going, you evil creature?" and quickly flew into the air to chase after him. Unexpectedly, the Golden Crow was extremely ferocious. It suddenly turned to the right and chased the emperor who was fighting according to the rules, spitting out the Sky-Splitting Cone. The emperor was caught off guard and before he could dodge and block it, a golden light flashed across his left shoulder. The emperor cried out in pain and fell under the clouds. Then the Golden Crow flew straight towards Zhuanxu. Zhuanxu had not expected it to fight him without regard for its life, so he hurriedly swung the sword in his hand; but the evil creature was so desperate that it ignored the sword waving in front of it and rushed straight towards Zhuanxu; its lower feet clamped Zhuanxu's feet tightly, its upper right foot clamped Zhuanxu's left arm, and its left foot clamped his right shoulder tightly; then it threw its head back wildly, opened its evil mouth wide, spit out molten metal, and whipped towards Zhuanxu's head. Why does this golden crow have such power that it can compete with the combined power of Zhuanxu, Huangdi and Houyi? It turned out that in ancient times, after Pangu, the great god of creation, completed the great task of creating the world and transformed into all things in the world, the sky-splitting cone and earth-splitting axe he had used each turned into a sphere, which took turns circling between heaven and earth. The cone that created the sky was transformed into a golden anode ball, which people called the sun; the axe that split the earth was transformed into a silver cathode ball, which people called the moon. After passing through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the sun has continuously absorbed the essence of heaven and earth over tens of thousands of years and has transformed into its own soul, which is the Golden Crow. It has three wings and four legs. The wing on its back is a golden wing that protects its body and can protect it from harm from all things in the world. It can also spit out molten metal from its mouth and swallow all things. What is particularly powerful is the Sky-Splitting Cone that is integrated into its heart and bones, which can be indestructible. At the beginning, the Golden Crow continued to move along its original trajectory, illuminating the world with its warmth. But as his magical powers increased, he gradually stopped taking all living things seriously. Later, he disrupted the benevolent law of heaven and earth, gave birth to nine suns, and brought harm to the world. The mountains and rivers dried up, and the people suffered heavy casualties. When the Jade Emperor learned that ten suns were causing trouble in the sky, he sent Houyi to shoot down nine of them and to make Jinwu turn over a new leaf. However, he relied on his magical powers to complain to the Heavenly Court, demanding that the Jade Emperor compensate him with his nine sons and kill Houyi. Hence the battle between good and evil. Because the Golden Crow had golden wings to protect its body, the gods fought with it for more than three thousand days but were ultimately unable to defeat it. Fortunately, Nuwa deified the moon into an extremely yin earth-splitting sword and gave it to Zhuanxu. The pure yin power overcame the pure yang wings of the Golden Crow, thus cutting the golden wings that protected the Golden Crow. It happened in a flash. Just as the Golden Crow was about to melt Zhuanxu's head, a golden light suddenly shot into the Golden Crow's back. The Golden Crow let out a strange howl towards the sky, but its four legs gripped even tighter due to the great pain. At this time, Zhuanxu endured the excruciating pain, seized the opportunity, and swung the sword downward with all his strength with his right arm, cutting off the Golden Crow's left foot. The Golden Crow had just had its protective golden wings chopped off, and it was injured and went mad. Now its foot was broken. Although it was acting like a madman, its divine power was greatly weakened after all. It was unable to do anything. After throwing Zhuanxu away, it howled strangely and fell to the ground. Upon seeing this, the emperor reluctantly picked up the fallen compass, raised the square in his right hand, facing the Golden Crow, held the compass in his left hand within the square, aimed the center of the compass at the Golden Crow, and muttered something; a circle of white light emanated from the center of the compass, rapidly expanding, and when the light circle passed over the square, a circle of square light also emanated from the edge of the square, forming a 'round sky and square earth' barrier, which covered the Golden Crow and sealed it inside. At this time, Houyi, who had just shot an arrow at the back of the Golden Crow, hurriedly picked up the sword that Zhuanxu dropped, drew his bow and shot, piercing the Golden Crow's heart. This vicious and cruel evil creature struggled frantically for a while, and suddenly spit out several balls of molten liquid from his mouth that quickly fell in all directions, and he was finally subdued. A thousand-day war that was dark and chaotic finally ended. But the world fell into a cold and dark place. It turned out that the Golden Crow was controlled and the moon was turned into a sword that split the earth. There was no longer any sun or moon shining in the sky. Then Nuwa turned the sword back into the moon, took out the heart of the Golden Crow, and turned it into a new sun as warm and pure as before. Only then did the world regain its light. The gods originally wanted to kill the Golden Crow to get rid of future troubles, but the Golden Crow was originally a magical creature created by the great god Pangu, and it had absorbed the essence of heaven and earth for thousands of years, so it had become an immortal soul and could only be sealed. Since it was created by the Cone of Creation, there is no magical object that can seal it forever. While the gods were thinking, the crow's foot that was chopped off suddenly attacked Nuwa. Although it was chopped into pieces by the gods, this evil creature took advantage of the slight confusion of the gods, and used its last bit of energy to break the seal, and transformed itself into Houyi's body, wanting Houyi to live and die with it, in order to avenge Houyi; and threw a drop of its blood into the newborn sun, so there was a three-legged golden crow shadow in the new sun. Although the new sun can move according to its original trajectory, it is no longer the sun that is always warm. Because of the influence of that drop of evil blood, not only does the temperature change constantly throughout the day, but the overall temperature is also different at different times of the year. As a result, the world has changes in morning and evening and four seasons. Although the new sun is not always warm, it adds interest to the world and makes people more energetic. This can be considered as a coincidence that the Golden Crow fails to harm people. Heaven and earth finally returned to normal. In order to commemorate and let future generations cherish this hard-earned light, people called the day when the sun rose again New Year's Day, hoping that there would be new and better changes every day. People also recorded this battle by cutting paper and pasted it on the windows to commemorate it, thus leaving behind the custom of pasting window flowers on New Year's Day.Summary: The above article introduces in detail the origin and development of the custom of pasting window flowers during the Spring Festival. It also analyzes the representative meaning of the custom of pasting window flowers. You can learn about it and feel the charm of traditional cultural customs! After reading this article, there are more exciting content in the Spring Festival special topic, let’s take a look! |
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