Legend 1

In ancient times, there was a little demon with black hands and white body named Chong, who came out to harm people every New Year's Eve. It touched the head of the sleeping child three times with its hand, and the child cried with fear, then had a fever and talked nonsense, and got sick from then on. After a few days, the fever subsided, but the clever child became a dementia fool. People are afraid that fetishism will harm children, so they sit up with lights on, which is called "fetishism".

In Jiaxing, there is a family named Guan, and the husband and wife have a son in their later years, which is regarded as the apple of their eye. On New Year's Eve, I forced them to play for fear that they would harm the children. The child wrapped eight copper coins in red paper, opened them, opened them again, and played until he fell asleep. Eight wrapped copper coins are placed on the pillow. The couple didn't dare to close their eyes and stayed with their children all night. In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew the door open and blew out the lights. When the little black boy touched the child's head with his bare hands, the child's pillow cracked into a light, and Chong hurriedly withdrew his hand and ran away screaming. Mr. and Mrs. Guan told everyone that wrapping eight copper coins in red paper was to scare away those special people. Everyone also learned to wrap eight copper coins in red paper and put them on pillows after the children's New Year's Eve. Sure enough, I never dare to hurt children again. It turned out that these eight copper coins were exchanged by the Eight Immortals, which helped the children secretly scare away the baby. Therefore, people call this money "lucky money". Because of the homonym of "precious" and "ancient", it is called "lucky money" with the passage of time. In the history of our country, there were lucky money very early. The earliest lucky money is also called winning money, or winning big money. This kind of money is not the currency circulating in the market, but a coin-shaped exorcism for wearing and enjoying. This kind of wearable articles in the form of coins first appeared in the Han Dynasty, and some of them were cast with characters and auspicious characters on the front.

Legend 2

Another theory originated from the ancient "shocking the world". It is said that there was a fierce beast called Nian in ancient times, which would come out every 365 days to hurt people, animals and crops. When children are afraid, adults use firecrackers to drive away Nian and comfort children with food. This is called "earthquake suppression". Over the years, it turned into money instead of grain. In the Song Dynasty, there was a "scare of money". According to historical records, Wang Shaozi went south and was kidnapped by bad guys. He exclaimed on the way, only to be saved by the imperial car. Song Shenzong gave him "surprise gold rhinoceros money". Later, it developed into "lucky money".