Interesting folk articles 1
Once upon a time, there was a distant place with beautiful scenery, tranquility and beauty, no smoke and no war. Therefore, the once-in-a-century Flat Peach Festival was held there. Immortals from all over the world came to participate, even the land gods and mountain gods participated. Only one little fairy, Yan Mei, didn't come. It turns out that Yan Mei went down to earth privately a year ago and married a man. Later, the jade emperor found that she had to be forced to return to heaven. After returning to heaven, she found that she was pregnant, but she dared not let the jade emperor know. It's the Flat Peach Festival, and she gave birth to a baby. Yanmei named her butterfly. Butterflies smile when they are born. They are very cute. In a blink of an eye, Butterfly was fifteen years old, and Yan Mei couldn't hide it, so she told the Jade Emperor about it. In a rage, the Jade Emperor banished the butterfly from the fairyland and demoted it to the world.
After being banished from the fairyland, the butterfly wandered for a year. She doesn't have enough food and clothes, and leads a hard life. On this day, she was tired and fainted on the side of the road. When she woke up, she found that her legs were fish tails and she became a mermaid. Then she saw a mermaid looking at her, so the butterfly asked, "Who are you?" ? Where am I? "The mermaid said," I am the most beautiful person in the mermaid world and the son of the mermaid king. "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, this is the bottom of the sea, is a mermaid's world. You are the most beautiful one in the mermaid world now, so you must hide! " The butterfly asked, "Why is this?" The mermaid said, "Because my father has a strange disease, saying that it can only be cured with the blood of the most beautiful mermaid, and he has never found it, so he is crazy now, but you are here at this time. It's a good thing you met me, otherwise you would have died. " The butterfly said, "Since God made me appear at this moment, it means that I can cure your father, believe me!" " "The fish said," But ... "The butterfly said," Believe me, I won't die. So she went to the man's father, Wang Yu, and cut the vein with a knife. She fainted because of excessive blood loss.
When she woke up, she found herself in a palace and some maids were looking at her. She was glad to find herself human again. At this moment, a woman came. She was the queen. The queen said to her, "You are awake. You have been lying in bed for over a month. During this month, I have been thinking about a question: Are you a fairy? " . Tell me quickly! "Butterfly said," it is! But how can you doubt that I am a fairy? " The queen said, "A month ago, I was embroidering at the window when I suddenly saw a group of colorful butterflies flying all the way to my window. I saw a butterfly holding a person, and that person was you. I quickly opened the window and put you on the bed. At this time, the butterfly has flown away. The butterfly asked, "What does that have to do with whether I am a fairy or not?" "The queen said," The emperor got sick and said that he needed to find a fairy and inject her blood into the emperor so that he could recover. "said the butterfly," oh! I see. I'm willing to have a try. "Then, the butterfly injected blood into the emperor's body, and the butterfly fainted again. When she woke up, she saw a group of lions. The lions said to her, "We lions don't eat human flesh anymore, but our lion king is ill, and medicine is a piece of human flesh." So please promise me to treat our lion king with a small piece of meat! " The butterfly says, "All right!" So she cut a piece of meat with a knife, and the pain made her faint again.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor said to her, "Since I banished you from fairyland, your mother has been begging me that you are kind-hearted, so I set you a triple test, and you all passed, so I officially declare that you will be the butterfly fairy and the leader of the butterfly in the future, and I will reward you with something." The butterfly said, "Thank you, Jade Emperor."
From then on, Butterfly and Yanmei lived a happy life.
Interesting folklore Chapter 2
On New Year's Eve, every child can get lucky money.
The earliest lucky money appeared in the Han dynasty, also known as winning money. It is not circulated in the market, but cast as an ornamental in the form of coins, which has the function of avoiding evil spirits. Coins are generally engraved with auspicious characters such as "Long live the Millennium" and "Eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits" and auspicious patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, tortoise snakes and Pisces.
There is a story about lucky money. Legend has it that in ancient times there was a small demon named Chong, with black and white hands. Every year on New Year's Eve, he comes out to touch the forehead of a sleeping child. The child will have a high fever after being touched, talk in his sleep, and become a dementia fool after the fever is gone. People stay up all night for fear that the special service will hurt their children. This is called "keeping the special service".
It is said that there is a family named Guan in Jiaxing, and the husband and wife have children in their later years and cherish them very much. On New Year's Eve, in order to prevent "worship" from disturbing children all the time, the children wrapped eight copper coins in red paper, unpacked them, unpacked them and unpacked them again. After sleeping, put the wrapped eight copper coins on the pillow.
In the middle of the night, an evil wind blew, and the little black boy was about to touch the child's head with his bare hands. Suddenly, the child's pillow burst into a golden light and ran away screaming.
So the story spread, and everyone followed suit. I wrapped the money in red paper on New Year's Eve, and I didn't dare to harass it again.
Therefore, people call this kind of money "precious money". The pronunciation of "precious" and "ancient" is the same. Over time, it is called "lucky money".
Interesting Folk Custom Part III
Sky lanterns, also known as Kongming lanterns, are said to have originated from the creation of Mr. Zhu Gekongming in the Three Kingdoms period, and are also called Kongming lanterns because they resemble the hats worn by Mr. Kongming. At that time, Mr. Kongming invented Kongming Lantern in order to transmit military communication signals in the battle, which was unanimously recognized as the pioneer of hot air balloon by scholars at home and abroad.
Later, during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, ancestors migrated from Anxi County and Hui 'an County of Fujian Province along the upper reaches of the Keelung River, and were introduced into today's Pingxi Township. That is to say, the birthplace of the sky lanterns is Shiliao District of Pingxi Township. At that time, according to the dictation of the older generation, Shiliao was located in the mountainous area, and the villagers often robbed the villagers' property and fled to the mountainous area. After the bandits leave, the able-bodied men who stay in the village will cast lanterns to inform those who have taken refuge in the mountains that the bandits are gone and can go home. In the future, because the sky lanterns have the significance of reaching Tiantang Temple, villagers often write the words of blessing on the sky lanterns until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Interesting Folk Customs Chapter IV
After the goddess mended the sky, heaven and earth have not completely recovered to their original appearance. It is said that from then on, the northwest sky began to tilt slightly, so the sun, moon and stars unconsciously ran there and fell to the tilted western sky; The land in the southeast sank into a huge pit, so the Dachuan River involuntarily flowed to the southeast, pouring water there continuously, and it became an ocean.
People may worry: the water from Dachuan River is poured into the ocean every day. Isn't there a day when the ocean will be full? If it is full, what will happen if the sea overflows? Isn't mankind going to suffer again?
Please don't worry. It is said that hundreds of millions of miles away in the east of the Bohai Sea, there is such a big valley, whose depth is simply unpredictable, and it is called "ghost animal". The water of a hundred rivers flows here. Xu Shui in Guangxi has always maintained a normal state, neither increasing nor decreasing.
There are five sacred mountains in Guixu, namely Daiyu, Qiao Yuan, Abbot, Yingzhou and Penglai. Each mountain is three Wan Li high and surrounded by three Wan Li. The distance between mountains is 70,000 Li. There are palaces made of gold and railings made of white jade on the mountain, which are the happy homes of the immortals. All the birds and animals on it are white. Pearls and Yushu grow everywhere, and these trees also blossom and bear fruit. The fruits are jade and pearls, which are very sweet and can live forever.
The immortals are all dressed in pure white, with little wings on their backs. You can often see these fairies flying freely on the sea and blue sky like birds, visiting their relatives and friends between the five mountains. The life of the immortals is free, happy and happy.
In a happy life, there is only one thing that is not good: it turns out that these five mountains are all floating on the sea and have no roots below. If there is a storm, they will drift. This is quite inconvenient for communication between immortals.
With such difficulties, they sent representatives to the Heaven Emperor to complain.
Knowing this situation, the Emperor of Heaven was also worried that these sacred mountains would drift to the horizon and the immortals would be homeless. So he called Yu Qiang, the sea god, and sent fifteen turtles to carry the five mountains. One is carrying it, and the other two are waiting below. They are exchanged every 60,000 years and take turns to bear the burden.
In this way, the mountain was indeed stable, and the immortals living on the mountain lived happily and safely for many years.
Unexpectedly, one year, an adult from Longboguo came here and inadvertently created a storm.
He was idle and bored, so he took a fishing rod and went fishing in the sea. After a few steps, these sacred mountains took him on a tour. Raising the fishing rod to catch, he caught six turtles in succession. Whether he likes it or not, he took these turtles home. Poor Daiyu and Jiao Yuan, two sacred mountains, drifted to the North Pole and sank to the bottom of the sea. The immortals living on these two sacred mountains are all in a hurry, flying around in the sky with boxes and tents, so tired that they are sweating.
When the Emperor of Heaven knew this, he flew into a rage, so he cut down the land of Longbo country and shortened the stature of Longbo people, lest they go out and make trouble everywhere again. By the time Fuxi Shennong arrived, although the China people's size had been shortened to the point where it could not be shorter, it was still dozens of feet long according to the average person at that time.
Returning to the Five Mountains in Xuxu, two of them sank, leaving Penglai, the abbot and Yingzhou three, telling the tortoise to back up. Until tens of thousands of years later, there is no problem.
Interesting Folk Custom Chapter 5
Du Kang, some people say that he is a minister under the Yellow Emperor.
After the Yellow Emperor established the tribal alliance, Shennong began to cultivate land and grow grain after tasting a hundred herbs and distinguishing grains. The Yellow Emperor ordered Du Kang to manage grain production, and Du Kang was very responsible. Due to the fertile land and pleasant climate, there is a bumper harvest every year, and the grain output is increasing. At that time, because there was no warehouse and no scientific storage method, Du Kang piled the harvested grain in the cave. After a long time, due to the humidity in the cave, the food is moldy. The Yellow Emperor was very angry when he learned about it. He ordered Du Kang to be removed from his post and only let him keep the food. He also said that if the grain was moldy in the future, Du Kang would be executed.
Du Kang, the minister in charge of grain production, was suddenly reduced to storing grain, and he was very sad. But he also believes that Lei Zu, Hou Feng, Cang Xie and other officials have made great contributions to inventions, but they have made no contribution and committed crimes. At this thought, all his anger disappeared, and he secretly made up his mind to keep the food well. One day, Du Kang found an open field in the forest, and several surrounding trees died, leaving only the thick trunk. The suitcase is empty. Du Kang had a brainwave. He thinks that if the grain is put in a hole in the tree, it may not go bad. So he hollowed out all the dead trees in the forest. A few days later, all the grain was put into the tree hole.
Who knows, two years later, the grain in the tree hole was slowly fermented by the wind, the sun and the rain. One day, when Du Kang went up the mountain to check the grain, he suddenly found some goats, wild boar and rabbits lying around a dead tree with grain on it. At first, he thought that all these wild animals were dead. When he approached, he found that they were still alive, and they all seemed to be sleeping. Du Kang couldn't figure out what the reason was and wondered when the wild boar woke up. As soon as it saw someone coming, it ran into the Woods. Then a goat and a rabbit woke up and ran away. Du Kang didn't bring a bow and arrow when he went up the mountain, so he didn't catch up. He was about to go back when he suddenly found two goats licking something in front of a tree hole full of food. Du Kang hurriedly hid behind a big tree to observe, only to see two goats licking for a while, and then staggered up and lying on the ground after a while. Du Kang quickly ran to tie up two goats, and then carefully checked with his tongue what the goats had just licked in the tree hole. You can take a look without looking, but Du Kang got a fright. The hole in the tree used to hold grain cracked a crack, and the water inside kept oozing out. Goats, wild boar and rabbits fell to the ground after licking the water. Du Kang sniffed it with his nose, and the seeping water was very fragrant, so he couldn't help tasting it. Although it tastes a little spicy, it is particularly mellow. The more he tasted it, the more he wanted to taste it, and finally he took a few sips. This glass of wine doesn't matter. For a moment, I just felt very dizzy. Just two steps forward, I fell to the ground and fell asleep. I don't know how long it took. When he woke up, he saw that one of the two goats had run away and the other was struggling. He turned over, feeling full of energy and energy, and accidentally trampled the struggling goat to death. He conveniently took off the pointed jar at his waist and filled half the jar with this perfume seeping from the tree hole.
When he came back, Du Kang told other food keepers what he had seen, and let everyone taste the perfume he brought back. Everyone thinks it's strange. Some people suggested that the matter should be reported to the Yellow Emperor as soon as possible, but others disagreed, on the grounds that Du Kang was demoted for spoiling food in the past, and now he has put food into a tree hole and turned it into water. If the Yellow Emperor knew about it and didn't kill his head, he would kill Du Kang. Hearing this, Du Kang said to everyone unhurriedly: "Now, no matter whether it is good or bad, it can't hide from the Yellow Emperor." With that, he lifted the pointed bottom jar and went to the Yellow Emperor.
After listening to Du Kang's report, the Yellow Emperor carefully tasted the perfume he brought, and immediately discussed the matter with his ministers. Ministers agreed that this is a living food, not poisonous water. The Yellow Emperor did not blame Du Kang, but ordered him to continue to observe carefully and ponder the truth. He also ordered Cang Xie to give this perfume a name. Cang Xie said casually: "This water is fragrant and mellow, and it will make you drunk." After that, he made a word "wine". Both the Yellow Emperor and the ministers thought it was a good name.
Since then, China ancient wine industry began to appear. In memory of Du Kang, later generations regarded him as the ancestor of brewing.
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