Is the legendary "Year" a monster or a beauty?

Folklore: In ancient times, there was a monster called Nian, which looked like a one-horned lion. People and animals are injured every once in a while, and people can't subdue them. Once, Nian broke into a village and happened to meet a man who was dressed in red and burned bamboo poles to keep warm. "Chip" exploded, red light shone, and "Nian" ran away in horror. Therefore, people know the nature of "year". Whenever the Year comes out, every household closes the door, sticks red couplets, lights firecrackers and drives the Year away. The "Year" fruit will never come again. People are very happy to celebrate the "New Year", beating gongs and drums and saying "congratulations" to each other. Since then, there has been a "New Year".

One legend is that ...

First of all:

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the deep mountains and forests. People call them nian. Nian has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, animals and scale insects, and changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Slowly, people mastered the activity law of "Year". It turns out that every 365 days in 2008, people will go to places where people live in concentrated communities to taste fresh food, and the haunt time is after dark. When the roosters crow at dawn, they go back to the mountains. Men and women regard this terrible night as "New Year's Eve" and come up with a set of "New Year's Eve" methods: every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire, cleans the stove, then ties up all the chicken coops, and then seals up the house and hides in the house to eat "New Year's Eve"-because this dinner has ominous significance, it is very rich. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and got up the courage to chat.

It's getting dark, and I escaped from the deep forest in and touched the village where people live together. I saw every household's door closed, sesame stalks piled in front of it, but there was no one in the street. After turning for more than half a night, I found nothing, so I had to chew sesame stalks to satisfy my hunger. After a while, the rooster crowed, and these cruel and stupid monsters had to go home disgruntled. Those who have survived the "Year-end" are overjoyed. They want to thank the ancestors of heaven and earth for their protection, congratulate each other on not being eaten by Nian, and open the door to set off firecrackers to greet their neighbors and friends. ...

After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast. On the evening of 30th one year, Nian beast suddenly fled to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. A village was almost eaten up by Nian beast, and only a pair of newly-married couples in red curtains were safe and sound. There are also a few childlike innocence, in the yard lit a pile of bamboo to play, red. Bamboo exploded after burning, and Nian beast turned around and fled when it saw the fire. From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. At the end of each year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian Beasts dare not come again. In The Book of Songs Xiaoya Tingliao, there is a record of "the light of Tingliao". The so-called "pavilion" is a torch made of bamboo poles and the like. After the bamboo pole burns, the air in the bamboo joint expands, and the bamboo cavity bursts, making a crackling sound, which is the origin of "firecrackers".

However, villagers in some places don't know that Nian beast is afraid of red and is often eaten by Nian beast. This incident later spread to the sky in Wei Zi. In order to save people, he is determined to destroy Nian beast. One year the beast came out, knocked it down with a fireball and chained it to a stone pillar with a thick chain. From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Zixing to come down to keep safe.

This phenomenon has gradually become the custom of "Happy New Year" and "Happy New Year", which is rich in content. The usual order is: first worship the heaven, then worship the ancestors, then go to Gaotang, and then go out to visit relatives and friends. There are also various kinds of pay attention to family worship on the first day, Yue family worship on the second day and relatives worship on the third day until the fifteenth day of the first month.

Second:

According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, with long tentacles and a ferocious face. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people.

Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

On New Year's Eve this year, people in Taohua Village were taking refuge in the mountains when an old beggar came from outside the village. He was leaning on crutches, carrying a bag on his arm, with elegant silver whiskers and staring at Matthew.

Some villagers sealed windows and locked doors, some packed their bags, some herded cattle and drove sheep, and people shouted boo everywhere, which was a scene of panic. At this time, who still has the mind to take care of this begging old man?

Only an old woman in the east of the village gave the old man some food and suggested that he go up the mountain quickly to avoid Nian beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive Nian beast away."

The old woman looked at him carefully in surprise and found that he was handsome, energetic and different. But she continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. My mother-in-law had no choice but to leave home and take refuge in the mountains.

At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and bright candles in the room. The beast Nian trembled and let out a long whistle.

Nian stared at her mother-in-law's house for a while, then screamed and rushed over. As we approached the door, there was a sudden explosion in the yard. Nian trembled and dared not go any further.

It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. "Nian" was frightened to disgrace and fled in confusion.

The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly.

The villagers flocked to the old woman's house together, only to see the red paper on her door. A pile of unburned bamboo in the yard was still exploding, and several red candles in the house were still glowing. ...

In order to celebrate the auspicious arrival, ecstatic villagers put on new clothes and hats one after another and went to their relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast.

Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

Third:

It is said that Nian beast has a big head and a small body, and it is more than ten feet long. Its eyes are like two bells, coming and going like the wind. When it is called, it sounds "year after year", hence the name Nian Beast. After a long time, people gradually found that Nian beast was afraid of three things, namely, red, fire and noise, so later people would get together when the beast was coming in the 30 th year, put up red paper (later changed to red couplets), hang red lanterns, set off firecrackers and so on, in order to drive Nian beast away. After the beast was driven away, the survivors always said happily to each other, "Another year of beasts." Slowly, there is a saying of the New Year, and there is a custom of the New Year.

Fourth:

Legend has it that a long time ago, in Archean, there was a fierce monster named Nian. It is fierce by nature and usually lives in deep mountains and forests. Because it also likes to eat people, people are very afraid of it. Fortunately, "Nian" usually only comes out on the evening of the 30th of each year, which harms others and destroys the countryside. So people usually close the door before dawn every day and don't go to bed until dawn. When the door opened the next day, the neighbors celebrated each other and lived in harmony. Later, in an accidental incident, people found that Nian was very afraid of firecrackers and red things, so on New Year's Eve, people would wear red to show happiness and set off firecrackers when the old year ushered in the new year. Later, Nian never came again. This is the legend of New Year's Eve. The day after 30 is the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, also called "Chinese New Year".