Brocade legend

Chapter 172 Welcome to Spring
After the kitchen sacrifice was over, the Spring Festival began. The whole Lu Manor was busy cleaning the courtyard, drying the clothes and drying the quilt, and began to sweep the dust.

As the saying goes, "If you want to post, scan eighteen; if you want to have, scan nineteen."

Because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the New Year has the meaning of "removing the old and bringing out the new", in order to destroy the old and establish the new, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. ?
Then there is the preparation of the New Year’s goods. About ten days before the festival, the Lu Manor began to be busy purchasing items. The New Year’s goods include chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, North and South roasted seeds and nuts, sugar bait and fruit products. Visiting friends, gifts given when meeting Shangguan, children need to buy new clothes and hats, ready to wear during the New Year. ?
During the Chinese New Year, the happiest people are of course the children.

There is only Wang Lu Xiuying's child in Lu's house, so he is naturally doted on, and there are always all kinds of sweets and snacks in the house.

Today's Xiuying has long lost the look of suffering, her complexion is ruddy, like a peach blossom reflecting her face, she is even cuter.

She is deeply loved by the elderly, and Lianqiu sewed new winter clothes for her early on, with red silk and gold, and Lu Bing bought her a snow-white fox fur.

Although Xiuying looks more stable and mature than children of the same age today, she is no longer just expressionless every day.Especially when she is with Lian Qiu, she is very cute.

Apart from Lianqiu, Xiuying became closer to Yang Sen. Yang Sen's childish and playful personality made her the most compatible with children. Since then, Yang Sen moved into Lu's residence, either to learn from Huang Duxian, or to accompany Lian with Shitou. Autumn play.

Yang Sen was still complacent, and handed over the flying knife stunt to Xiuying.And Xiuying is also a hardworking child. In addition to continuing to practice Wang's poking legs, she also learned light work from Huang Duxian and many other ingenious things.

And Shitou's emphasis on basic skills also infected Xiuying, and she got up early every day to squat with Shitou.

Mrs. Lu felt sorry for her, didn't want her to suffer so much, and felt that it was useless for a girl to learn from her family, so she asked Lu Bing to persuade her.

But Lu Bing thought about it, and still didn't intervene.This is an assertive kid who knows how to do what she does.Lu Bing knew that Xiuying would not let the Wang family's kung fu be cut off.

Soon, the New Year's Eve arrived, and early in the morning, Lu Bing personally wrote the pen, "The east wind blows thousands of mountains and green, and the spring rain brings new life to every phenomenon", "Happiness and auspiciousness, flowers bloom and wealth", "Family harmony and family harmony" Blessings, four seasons of peace and four seasons of spring", "Ruixue's farewell to the year, wintersweet to welcome the spring", "every year's safe day, every year's happy spring", "thousands of joy in the prosperous age, prosperity of all families in the new year" and other door-to-door Spring Festival couplets.Ask the servants to post Spring Festival couplets and red, yellow, blue, green and other color symbols.

The Spring Festival couplets originated from peach charms. According to the records of "Book of the Later Han Etiquette", the peach charms are six inches long and three inches wide, and the names of the gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" written on the peach wood board.As the saying goes, "On the first day of the first lunar month, a peach talisman is made to cover the household. It is named Immortal Tree, which is feared by all ghosts."

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, someone in the court wrote couplets on peach charms. "Song History Shu Family" said: Meng Chang, the master of later Shu, ordered Xin Yinxun, a scholar, to inscribe a peach board. Because of its non-craftsmanship, he claimed to write the inscription: "New Year Na Yuqing, Jiajie Changchun"", this is the first since ancient times. A pair of Spring Festival couplets.

Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Peach Fu".In Wang Anshi's poem, there is a line that "thousands of households have pupils every day, and they always exchange new peaches for old symbols".In the Song Dynasty, peach charms were changed from peach wood boards to paper, which were called "spring stickers" and "spring couplets".

In addition to pasting Spring Festival couplets at each door, there are also various god-respecting Spring Festival couplets. The Spring Festival couplet of "Kitchen Lord" is: "God says good things, and the world brings auspiciousness." The Spring Festival couplet of "Land Lord" is: "White jade grows in the earth, and gold grows in the earth."It means that as long as you work hard, you can reap the harvest in the land.

The Spring Festival couplet of "God of Heaven and Earth" is: "The sky is high and everything is covered, and the earth is thick and contains all living things."In just ten words, everything in the world is included.

Lu Bing was still on the big tree in the yard, pasting short couplets such as "the tree is big and deep" and "rooted", the walls in the yard are pasted with "spring is bright", and the wall next to the kang at home needs to be pasted with "happiness and well-being". ", the kitchen needs to be pasted with "diligent and thrifty housekeeping", etc., and there are red spring couplets everywhere.

After posting the Spring Festival couplets, there are also New Year pictures to be hung, such as "Fu Lu Shou Samsung Picture", "Heavenly Official Blessing", "Welcome Spring Blessing" and other New Year pictures, which are beautiful and lively. The most interesting New Year picture is "Rat Marriage", which is vivid Lively and festive.During the Chinese New Year, even the mice are unwilling to be lonely.

Just when Lu Bing was about to stick to the door god, Wang Luxiuying sat on the shoulder of the stone and ran over playing with Yang Sen.

"Hey, father, who are these two ugly monsters!" Xiuying asked Lu Bing strangely.

"Don't dare to talk nonsense." Lu Bingzheng brushed the door panel with the thick glutinous rice porridge. He had been busy all morning, and his head was covered with steaming mist. Hearing Xiuying's words, he raised the brush tied with a broom seedling in his hand, The brush handle lightly tapped Xiuying's head, and said with a smile, "This is Shen Tu and Yu Lei."

"Huh? Why haven't you heard of it?" Xiuying asked strangely.

"Haha! I don't even know this, let me tell you!" Yang Sen on the side seized the opportunity, laughed at Xiuying and said: "It is said that in the "Shan Hai Jing" in ancient Chinese mythology, there is a world of ghost domains. On the mountain, there is a big peach tree covering three thousand miles, and there is a golden rooster on the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster sings in the morning, the ghosts that wander out at night will be driven back to the ghost domain. The gate of the ghost domain is located in the northeast of the peach tree. , there are two gods and men standing by the door, named Shentu and Yulei. If the ghost does something harmful to the sky at night, Shentu and Yulei will immediately find it and catch it. It was tied up and sent to feed the tiger. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world fear the gods Tu and Yu Lei. So the folks carved them in peach wood and placed them at the door of their houses, respecting them as door gods to avoid evil and harm."

"Why don't you post Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, but post them?" Xiuying said unconvinced, and turned to Lu Bing half coquettishly, half complaining: "Father, if you post Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, Xiuying won't Have you been laughed at by your little uncle?"

"Because we are the generals of the Ming Dynasty, we can't post Yu Chigong and Qin Shubao." Lu Bing said with a smile: "If we post the generals of the Tang Dynasty as the door gods, doesn't it mean that our generals of the Ming Dynasty are not as good as the generals of the Tang Dynasty? "

"That's it! Xiuying remembers." Xiuying nodded obediently.

"Do you know why I know?" Yang Sen said proudly, "My family also posted Shen Tu and Yu Lei.

Lu Bingshua was bored, and his youngest daughter was beside him, so he asked for something to say: "Xiuying is very good, do you know Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong?"

"Of course!" Xiuying said proudly.

(End of this chapter)