Where is the story of Nian beast recorded (source)?

[The monster says]

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains. People call them nian. Nian has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It only eats 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, I went to places where people lived to taste fresh food, and the time of haunt was after dark. When the rooster crowed at dawn, they returned to the mountains. After determining the ravaging date of "Nian", men and women regarded this terrible night as "Nian Guan" and came up with a set of methods for "Nian Guan": every household cooked dinner in advance, turned off the stove, tied up all the chicken coops and cowsheds, then sealed their doors and hid in the house to eat "New Year's Eve". Because this meal has ominous significance, it is very rich. In addition to the whole family dining together to show harmony and reunion, it is also necessary to make sacrifices to ancestors before eating and pray for the ancestors' gods to bless them to spend the night safely. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and got up the courage to chat. This is "Endure the Year".

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 around for the middle of the 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 to congratulate them ... When people meet, they bow to each other and congratulate each other, glad that they were not eaten by Nian beast. 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 childish people who lit a pile of bamboo in the yard and were playing. The fire is red. Bamboo exploded after burning. Nian beast turned here and saw the fire turn and flee. 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. From the Book of Songs? Xiaoya? There is a record of "the light of the court meteor" in the article "Court Meteor". 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.

[Fairy says]

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were two immortals in the sky. Big fairy is called big year, and little fairy is called small year. Kind-hearted and caring. Every cold season, when the food is not long, I am afraid of starving the bad guys, so I scatter white flour in the sky for people to eat. Although Xiaonian is the elder brother of Chinese New Year, he has a bad mind. He used witchcraft to turn the white flour scattered to people in the New Year into snow seeds, which would starve to death and freeze his stomach. When he makes people sick, he becomes a beast with huge teeth and fangs and eats people. He eats people and eats their stomachs, so he lies down and sleeps. He can sleep for 360 days and eat people when he wakes up. Although people know it comes every 360 days, they can't hide anywhere. I had to burn incense and kowtow, and please be the host in the New Year.

In the New Year's dream, white flour turns into snow and people are sparsely populated. After listening to human prayers, I realized that it was the evil of off-year. He went to Xiaonian with anger and hate, but Xiaonian said indifferently, "Your own business, I'll eat my people, what's wrong with you?" When Niannian saw that he was unreasonable, he raised his hand and hit him. Who knows Xiao Nian is cruel? He knocks Da Nian to the ground with his backhand and says, "If you don't leave your mother alone, I will eat you!" " "

If you can't win in the next year, you have to go down to earth in person and say to people, "In the next year, you are naturally afraid of thunder and fire. When he comes again, you can burn bamboo with dry wood of Pinus tabulaeformis, form a circle, make a fire and sit in the middle. When it comes down, it can't eat people. " People remember the words on New Year's Day. After the Chinese New Year, dry wood and Chinese pine burned bamboo "bang bang" and burned people. It was so anxious that it couldn't grind its teeth and turn around, so it had to go back with an empty stomach. Knowing that this was the idea of Lunar New Year's Day, he went to play Lunar New Year's Day, but he couldn't help it and jumped into the burning circle of fire. Xiaonian gnashed her teeth and said, "When I practice my fire skills, I won't leave you a baby!"

Sunrise and sunset, the grass is yellow. I didn't sleep for 3,599 days in the intense off-year and finally got the power of fire. One day, I will go down and make a fool of myself.

I am ready for the new year. He also didn't sleep for 3599 days. He practiced martial arts day and night, and the next day he would go down the mountain and have a big fight with Xiao Nian to protect mankind from harm.

At noon in 3600 days, we met head-on in mid-air. Xiaonian knew that if he didn't get rid of the insecurity of Danian, he would start to fight. In the new year, they showed no weakness, and they played yellow wind to cover the sky. This is why it is windy and foggy in spring.

After playing for 32 days, I was in a hurry, and I was about to swallow the new year's goods with my mouth open. Danian hurriedly raised his hand, feeling thunder, but Xiaonian jumped up and hid in a high place. Danian caught up, and he kept shooting up. This is the reason for the muffled thunder on February 2.

Danian chased him for seventy-four days. Seeing that his palm could not beat him, he gave up. Xiaonian thought that his brother's thunder was over, and he turned over and rushed down to catch the New Year. Niannian dodged and raised her hand to pull out a snow-white bug from behind. I saw the long worm spit fire and went straight to burn next year. Before Xiao nian fled, the new year was full of thunder. Off-year flicker to avoid, mouth spit out a stream of black water, although the water can't put out the fire, wet the thunder, but also saved himself. Chasing and running in the new year, running in the new year, the earth shakes and the rain pours. This is the origin of summer rainstorm.

Off-year tired, plunged into the sea to sleep. In the New Year, the sun was released in a hurry to make the grain mature, so as to prevent people from starving because of his war with Xiaonian.

Off-year rested for a hundred days, and then came back to fight with the New Year. Don't talk during the new year, take over the phone. This time, I was a junior, so I performed his air conditioning fire fighting skills first. With one mouth, the cold wind blows into the New Year. New Year's Day was terrible, and I rushed to a high place. Off-year also hurried to catch up, was driven out to pay New Year's greetings, and there was nowhere to hide, turning into a small stone and falling to the ground. I was so angry that I couldn't find the New Year's Day. I was driving around in the cold wind, but I couldn't find it. It was snowing all over the sky and I was freezing to death. In fact, I have been hiding in caves where people hide for the New Year, so that people can make a fire for him to bake and eat hot food. It's warm enough on the first day of the New Year, and we need to wipe our bodies with pine oil layer by layer, ready to fight to the death next year.

Another 360 days. Xiao nian expected that the annual meeting would freeze to death, so he rushed down to eat people with a loud roar. I saw a new year's day roll, and my whole body jumped into the air in a fire. As soon as Xiaonian got down to the treetops, New Year plunged into Xiaonian's mouth, got into his throat and set it on fire. I pull the branches with my hands and kick them with my feet. In a short time, off-year hands loose, the body over the branches. I saw his body steaming and only burned a piece of skin. Both Danian and Xiaonian died. People are kneeling in the yard, crying and kowtowing to the New Year. And hang off-year's body on the tree forever with off-year's body. In the future, people will burn incense under the trees in the yard every 360 days, saying that the New Year is Vulcan, and if there is incense, there will be magical powers. Can ensure the safety of the dry generation.

We'll talk about it later. The introduction of North Korean talents for 360 days is a four-season cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. What is this cycle called? Everyone said. He gave his life for us year after year, and we will never forget this great kindness. Enough for a cycle, even a year later. People also made one lantern after another according to the method of burning the old year, imitating the empty shell left by the old year. Hang it on a tree every holiday to exorcise evil spirits.

【 Theory of perpetual calendar creation 】

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a young man named Wannian who saw that the festival at that time was very chaotic and wanted to make it accurate. One day, he went up the mountain to cut wood and sat in the shade to have a rest. Inspired by the movement of the shadow, he designed a coffin to measure the sun and calculate the time. But it was raining and foggy at that time, which affected the measurement. Later, the dripping spring on the cliff aroused his interest, and he began to make a five-story clepsydra. As time went on, he found that the length of the weather would repeat every 360 days.

At that time, the monarch was called Zu Ti, and the unpredictable weather made him very upset. A minister named Aheng, in order to please the emperor, said that he would set up a rooftop to worship the gods. Zu Ti thought it was reasonable, so he led officials to make sacrifices to heaven, but to no avail. Knowing that ten thousand years later, I couldn't help but go to see the emperor with a sundial and a clepsydra and explain to Zu Ti why the sun and the moon run. Zu Ti was very happy after hearing this and felt reasonable. So I left for ten thousand years and built the Sun and Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, as well as the sundial platform and the Leaky Pot Pavilion. Send twelve boys to serve for ten thousand years. Zu Ti said to Wannian: "I hope you can accurately measure the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the exact time in the morning and evening, and create a calendar for the benefit of the people all over the world."

On one occasion, Zu Ti sent a message to Ah Heng asking about the progress of the perpetual calendar. When he boarded the altar of the sun and the moon, he saw the inscription on the stone wall next to the Temple of Heaven: sunrise and sunset 360,

Start all over again.

Vegetation withers and flourishes in four seasons.

There are twelve circles in a year.

When Ah Heng saw this, he knew that the study of perpetual calendar was successful, and his heart was uneasy. He was extremely afraid that the monarch would blame himself for putting forward the idea of offering sacrifices to the gods, because he was favored by calendars created for thousands of years. So he plotted and sent an assassin to get rid of Wan Nian. The assassin climbed up the Sun Moon Pavilion and saw Wannian watching the stars on the pavilion, so he drew an arrow with his bow and prepared to shoot him. Who knows, the assassin was found by the guards and arrested on the spot. When Zu Ti learned of this, he punished Ah Heng and personally went to Riyuege to visit Wan Nian. Wan Nian pointed to the astronomical phenomena and said to Zu Ti, "It's been twelve months now, the old year has passed and the new year has begun again. Please make a festival for you. " Zu Ti said, "Spring is the beginning of a year. Just call it the Spring Festival. " Winter goes and spring comes, year after year. Later, after long-term observation and careful calculation, it took 10 thousand years to calculate the accurate solar calendar. When he showed his successor the solar calendar, he was covered with silver whiskers. The monarch was deeply moved. In order to commemorate the achievements of 10 thousand years, he named the solar calendar "perpetual calendar" and named it the birthday star of the sun, moon and moon. In the future, people will hang up the Shou Xingtu during the Chinese New Year, which is said to commemorate the venerable ten thousand years. This is the origin of the Spring Festival.