Legend about New Year's Eve.

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, eating livestock and hurting people's lives.

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

The custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner has been around for a long time, and now it has become a unified model for Chinese New Year. New Year's Eve is a well-prepared reunion dinner. People make rich dishes and wines according to their families' tastes, celebrate a year's harvest, and look forward to making big money in the coming year.

It is said that there is a funny story about eating New Year's Eve dinner. A long time ago, every family had a big meal with the door open. Tie Guai Li is a cripple named Hua Xian. Whenever Tie Guai Li has a New Year's Eve dinner, he will go begging with a basket.

Show the returned things to the Jade Emperor and report the rich and poor of each family. The jade emperor does not allow the rich to be too rich, and there are several disasters a year. The poor can't be too poor, and they should be blessed several times a year.

This matter slowly spread to the world, and soon thought of a solution. When eating New Year's Eve, the door is closed tightly, and no one in the family is allowed to speak loudly. When Tie Guai Li came to beg, the family had already finished their New Year's Eve dinner. When the door was opened, the table was empty and there was no way to give alms to Tie Guai Li. Tie Guai Li saw that the family was too poor to eat for a few years, so he put some gold ingots at the door and left.

This family has become rich, but there is no windtight wall. Other families also saw the reason why they were rich, and they all followed suit. Who knows that when Tie Guai Li saw everyone eating New Year's Eve dinner behind closed doors, he knew that people already knew his task, so he stopped coming to this world to beg and examine the rich and the poor. However, the habit of closing the door to eat New Year's Eve has spread to this day.