The bed serves as the most important furniture in a kind of daily life, reflect the change that gives way of daily life of ancients and custom custom not only, and still accumulate accumulate a lot of historical interesting news of little known.

1. New Year's Eve bed

New Year's Eve to deck bed, "drink in the volunteers · diet is still" record: "thirty nights, year's eve, that is to worship each other wish, called 'old words'. ... On the bed hung eight treasures of gold and silver, Zephan, or woven yellow coins like dragons. Planting sesame straw in the eaves and burning 100 branches of wood in the courtyard is called 'Smoke Year'."

2, New Year's Eve "according to waste"

Lighting is lighting a lamp under the bed. This custom has been recorded in the Tang Dynasty, "under the age of twenty" said, New Year's Eve lights in the kitchen called light exhaustion, and "Tokyo Dream Hualu" said, the Song Dynasty in the twelfth month after the 23rd sacrifice kitchen, "night under the bed light of the 'light exhaustion one'. "Miscellany" said, "after an asshole, the lamp (without much attention) burns in the door and under the bed on The New Year's Eve."

New Year's money at the foot of the bed

On New Year's Eve, children and grandchildren should pay New Year's greetings to their elders. Elders should tie money with colorful line and press it at the foot of children and grandchildren's bed, known as New Year's money. "When yanjing was old" records: "to color rope to wear money, made dragon shape, placed at the foot of the bed, called lucky money". This custom can be seen in the Qing Dynasty. (Beijing Ancient Books Publishing House, 1981 edition, p. 98)

Light the watchman on the bed

"Chinese folk mining the record" Chronicles a collected from fujian quanzhou folk: on the second day just married the daughter and son-in-law to father-in-law home New Year, home to send them a pair of cncondom lanterns, this want to wait for when the Lantern Festival lanterns, hanging on the bedstead, small husband and wife will be light at the same time, the concept of light to play, if the first white lights, omen boys, if the red light out first, girls are warning.

5. Altar God

"Qing Jialu" records: "Hang custom sacrifice bed god, the first day after the above yuan, with pancakes." "Bed god also known as bed male bed female". (" Chinese Traditional Folk Festivals ", Jiangxi Fine Arts Publishing Du, 1992 edition, p. 36) Furniture was worshipped like a god, and bed was the first case. There are not only sacrificial bed gods in Hangzhou, but also in other areas. There are many kinds of images of bed gods in folk prints.

6. Sacrifice cake smoking machine

"Wan Office miscellany" contained: "February lead dragon, smoked 100 insects." It is to use the pancake offering bed with noodles, the purpose is to make the 100 insects do not grow, the bed is safe. "(Beijing Ancient Books Publishing Du, 1980 edition, page 191)," The Scenery of Emperor Jing "also recorded the fumigating bed Kang in February, called fumigating insects. "Yanjing age miscellaneous yong" said: "sacrifice cake smoked bed worms, qinglong today will rise." These customs are to warn people, in the spring, when the earth, the recovery of all things, to remove the bed on the kang 100 insects, in order to keep clean and safe.

7. Send your son to bed

In The book, "Qingbari Banknotes", there is a custom of sending off children in Huai 'an, which is always after the Lantern Festival and before the second day of February. Those who are old and childless and have been married for many years but have no children, when bricks are used between the little red lights pasted by paper, the bricks must be removed from the remote side of the bridge outside the east gate otherwise it will be useless. Cover take kylin son meaning. The giver would prepare a note of the recipient's home on a certain date, and there were about ten persons gathered temporarily, harping in music and wind, carrying lamps or bricks, and the receiver would wind far outside, wind in the husband's bed, and entertain him with a wine feast. If he had a son the next day, there would be a heavy reward."

"Peng Whip pujian" hanging on the bed

The old May 5 as evil month evil day, the Dragon Boat Festival to plug pu Ai, drink realgar wine, but also the wine "sprinkle bed tent room, to avoid insect poison." "Qing Jialu" : "Cut pu as a sword, cut peng as a whip, supplemented by peach stalks, garlic head, hanging in the bed, used to kill ghosts. (The Customs of Old Beijing, Beijing Yanshan Press, 1996, p. 124) Suzhou Folk Custom says that five poisonous symbols should be pasted on the bed during the Dragon Boat Festival. These customs are actually related to the season, in the south may is the rainy season, wet insects. In the north, May is also the time for hibernating larvae to revive, and only by cleaning beds can they keep safe.

Mid-Autumn festival send son in bed

":" the national customs the Mid-Autumn night, HengCheng has sent the melon, the home of all XiFeng cover thick, marry a woman for years infertility, held the relatives and friends to send the melon, choose a few days in the garden a theft in wax gourd, let not the Lord knows, with color painted face, clothes wrapped on it, such as human, for older life positively, embrace it, sounded shooting sent to his home. The elderly put melons in their beds to cover them with, saying, 'As you sow melons, so you reap beans.' He who receives melons makes a feast of money, if he is happy. When women get melons, they chop them."

Folk will also August Mid-Autumn festival as a good opportunity to seek children, "Tokyo Menghualu" : "August autumn society...... All the women in the family go back to their families. When they return home at night, grandpa, aunt and uncle, they all leave the new calabash and jujube as their heritage." And the gourd hanging on the bed, as a symbol of seeking children.