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Because this process takes a long time, Hu Xiaodao introduced to the audience the origin of the traditional Chinese festival - Chinese New Year's Eve, keeping the New Year, and pressing the New Year's money. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is said that in ancient times, there was a four-horned and four-legged evil beast - Xi!

Whenever there is a shortage of food due to heavy snow in winter, it will go to the nearby villages to find food, because of its large body, short temper, and ferocity, it has brought great disasters to the villagers.

So at the end of each month, people can only sort out their clothes, help the old and the young, and go to the nearby bamboo forest to escape the sunset.

This year, the night struck again!

On the way to collect their belongings and flee, the people of the village came across a child about seven or eight years old who fell hungry on the side of the road. A kind old woman woke up the child and asked the child to go up the mountain to avoid the evil beast.

Together with the old woman, the clever boy followed the people of the village to the bamboo forest behind the village. Due to the cold weather in the bamboo forest in winter, everyone is so cold that they have cut down bamboo to build houses and burn fires to keep warm.

The child, who was rescued by the old woman, asked everyone curiously: "Our bamboo forest is so close to the village, aren't we afraid that we will come here at night?" ”

An old man replied to him: "When I was young, I came here with the villagers to take refuge, and in the years when the snow was very heavy, it chased after it because it was very hungry, but every time it saw the villagers cutting bamboo in this bamboo forest, it hurried away." ”

The child thought about it and told everyone: "I have a way to get rid of 'Xi', so that everyone will not have to come out and flee every month from now on." ”

Everyone was very happy and asked what to do. The clever boy said, "Chop more bamboos and take them with you, so that the whole village can go home tonight, and hang a red cloth outside the door of your house, and believe me, I will never come again after dawn tomorrow." ”

The villagers listened to the child's words in disbelief, and the old man of the village took them back to their homes.

Soon, it's nightfall!

The villagers were afraid that the "evening" would come, and no one dared to sleep, except for hanging red cloth strips outside their doors, so they went to the open space in the middle of the village to guard some broken bamboo knots brought back from the bamboo forest.

The weather was cold, everyone lit a fire to keep warm, and when they were hungry, they took out some food, and time passed slowly!

Midnight!

"Whew-"

There was a loud roar outside the village, and everyone shrank in fear.

Then the clever boy suddenly stood up and said loudly to the villagers: "I will go and fetch him, and then everyone will throw into the fire the broken bamboo that we have been keeping watch all night." ”

After finishing speaking, before the kind old woman reached out to pull it, the child had already arrived at the entrance of the village.

When the child came to the outside of the village, he saw that Xi was breaking into the village and destroying a lot of things, so he shouted loudly: "You come every year, and the people can't live and work in peace and contentment, I must give you something powerful today!" ”

When Xi heard the child's cry, he followed the sound and chased after him, but he didn't dare to enter when he saw that the walls of the house were hung with red strips of cloth.

"This red cloth strip is equivalent to the red lanterns that we will hang during the Chinese New Year now." Hu Xiaodao deliberately explained, and then continued.

"Xi" was frightened by the red lantern and did not dare to enter the village, so she followed the child's voice and endured the hungry belly to the open space in the middle of the village.

At this time, the child shouted loudly: "Folks, throw broken bamboo into the fire!" ”

But—

The villagers were already standing there because they were afraid!

Taking advantage of this moment, "Xi" used the horns on its head to pick up the child and threw it heavily on the ground.

The villagers reacted to the sound of the child falling to the ground and threw bamboo knots into the fire.

Since it was not long after felling, the wet bamboo knots burst one after another when they encountered the fire, and they crackled!

"The custom of setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year started here." Hu Xiaodao explained again.

It is said that "Xi" turned around when he heard this sound, and did not damage the things in the village again.

When the day dawned, "Xi" was scared away by the sound of the bamboo that people threw into the fire and the sound of bursting, and the residents were saved because of the red stripe hanging in front of the door, and Xi did not enter, but the people were not happy in their hearts.

Because of the clever child who saved the village, it was picked to death by "Xi".

And this day is the first day of the first month, this smart child, his name is "Nian".

In order to commemorate this bright child, the villagers called this day "Chinese New Year's Eve".

Because "Xi" did not die, so every year on the tenth day of the lunar month, everyone waited for the broken bamboo festival, hoping to get rid of "Xi" as soon as possible.

But a year has passed, no one has ever seen the "Xi" again, some are just the firecrackers set off and the red cloth hanging in front of the door to prevent the arrival of the "Xi", but it has left us this legend and the customs of the New Year.

On the night of the moon, everyone gathered together to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and waited for the bell of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Set off firecrackers and stick door couplets. Wait until dawn to visit each other's neighbors and give greetings and blessings. On the morning of the first day of the new year, the villagers visited each other to see if the neighbors were injured and said some auspicious and kind words. I hope that the "eve" of the lunar month in the coming year will not come again.

In addition to this, there is also a version of the definition, which is called - to stay up and keep the year.

Keeping the New Year, that is, not sleeping on the last night of the old year, staying up late to welcome the arrival of the new year, also called Chinese New Year's Eve Keeping the New Year, commonly known as "staying up the year".

Exploring the origin of this custom is an interesting story that circulates among the people.

In the primeval period, there was a fierce monster that lived in the deep mountains and dense forests, and people called them "Nian Beasts".

Its appearance is hideous, ferocious by nature, specializing in birds and animals, scaly insects, changing a taste every day, from kowtow insects to eating big living people, making people talk about the "year" color change.

Later, people slowly grasped the activity law of "Nian", which is to go to the place where the crowd gathers once every 365 days to taste the freshness, and the time of haunting is after dark, and when the rooster crows and dawn, they return to the mountains and forests.

After calculating the date when the "year" was raging, the people regarded this terrible night as a pass and called it the "year pass".

And came up with a whole set of ways to pass the New Year: every night, every family prepared dinner in advance, turned off the fire and cleaned the stove, and then tied all the chicken pens and cattle pens, sealed the front and rear doors of the house, and hid in the house to eat "Chinese New Year's Eve dinner".

In addition to having the whole family gather around to express harmony and reunion, it is also necessary to make offerings to the ancestors before eating, praying for the blessings of the ancestors' gods and spending the night in peace.

After dinner, no one dared to sleep, huddled together to chat and strengthen courage, and gradually formed the habit of staying up on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The custom of keeping the New Year arose in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems and essays about keeping the New Year.

"One night is two years old, and five watches are divided into two years." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night to symbolize the drive away all evil plagues and diseases, and look forward to the auspicious new year. This custom has been passed down to the present day.