New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve.

Some people of the older generation will remember the tradition that before the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the old people will tie a copper coin to the child's body or put it in the child's pocket, and most of this copper coin will be collected after the dawn of the new year.

The process of this is called the New Year's Money, and the copper coin is called the New Year's Money.

Later, this tradition has evolved in many different ways due to the influence of time, geography, etc.

Some places still tie copper money, and some places will give a pile of cash, commonly known as New Year's money, and not only limited to Chinese New Year's Eve, between Chinese New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival, this kind of thing can always circulate between the elders and the descendants of relatives.

In some places, there is a custom of stepping on the New Year, that is, piling broken glass and other objects on the ground and stepping on them with shoes, commonly known as stepping on the New Year.

In fact, for the real year, whether you give hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars of current New Year's money, or get a broken glass on the ground and step on the whole foot to bleed, it is actually useless.

The origin of the New Year's money is to celebrate the New Year.

And the reason why copper coins are used to press the year is because the year is inherently restrained by one thing - treasure money.

As the first coin between heaven and earth, Luobao money represents currency, represents trade, represents the fire of civilization, and represents the rise of the human race.

And as the embodiment of resentment and anger, the year is naturally restrained by this thing.

It's just that there is only one pair of treasure money, and the power of the year permeates the entire Three Realms, affecting the Three Realms and the Six Realms.

Therefore, people slowly derived the habit of wearing copper coins on their bodies to celebrate the year.

Although ordinary copper coins are not as good as Luobao money, they are human currency after all, and they also have a certain effect on the power that affects the Three Realms and Six Realms.

In this way, with the passage of time, copper coins have become a custom and habit of the New Year.

Pressing down the year, after Chinese New Year's Eve, the transition to the Spring Festival, commonly known as the New Year.

Since the year and the night are mentioned, there is naturally another term - year.

"If the year and the night are this kind of companionship, what about that year? I have heard the legend about the New Year beast, saying that the current custom of the New Year, firecrackers, red charms are all to drive away the New Year beast. ”

The little Taoist priest who felt that he had risen his posture couldn't help but start to be curious about the year after learning about Xi and Sui.

Nine-Tails shook his head.

"It's a bit hard to say about the year. ”

The hall had a puzzled face, "Huh?"

"In fact, the year is different from the year, and it is not the product of the stars under the influence of resentment, strictly speaking, the year is the product of the birth of the heavenly way after the disaster of the night. ”

The little Daoist's eyes widened, "Heavenly Dao?"

Xi is born of resentment and anger of all beings, and the year is related to the god Pangu, which sounds like they are all full of force, but I didn't expect that the year was even bigger, and it turned out to be a product of heaven.

Nine-Tails nodded, "Even if it is a treasure money, it can only suppress the year, but not get rid of the year."

But that kind of suppression, although it can also weaken Xi, it is still not enough to make the living beings say goodbye to the old and welcome the new in peace, and the power of Xi will still bring disaster.

After that situation lasted for hundreds of years, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve of a certain year, when the old was saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, the power of the night reached its highest point, and a new disaster was about to come, but between heaven and earth, there was a sudden roar that made the soul tremble.

After this roar, Xi's infinitely high momentum was paused, and the next moment, a terrifying fierce beast appeared on Xi's side, and took a big breath, and the endless resentment and anger on Xi's body were actually deprived by the fierce beast and transmitted to the fierce beast.

Before dawn, Xiyi's resentment and anger were absorbed, and there was no power to make trouble.

However, the momentum of the other fierce beast became more and more powerful, even surpassing the previous peak of Xi.

The calamity of the night was stifled, but the other beast was not the savior, but the source of another calamity.

Before dawn, the eyes of the fierce beast that devoured Xi's resentful anger were red, and they were full of fierce light that chose people to devour.

Fierce beasts break into people's houses, bite and devour mortals' flesh, and bring another disaster.

It's just that, although this fierce beast still brings calamity, it doesn't rain down natural disasters with terrifying power like Xi, it just eats people, no matter how powerful he is, how much can he eat before dawn?

Yes, before dawn, when the beast appeared for the first time and devoured the resentment of Xi's body, the people rejoiced and celebrated it, believing that the beast was the savior.

But before their celebration could end, the beast that had devoured the power of the night turned its head and turned its fanged jaw towards them.

However, just when people were desperate, they found that as soon as it was dawn, the beast left, and did not continue to devour the remaining humans.

In this way, the disaster has been limited and reduced to a certain extent, especially when the location that appears at night is less populated, and the damage of the beast is particularly limited, and people also accept the price of eliminating natural disasters.

Until, hundreds of years later, another New Year, after the fierce beast devoured the power of the night and slaughtered on a large scale, the people who were lucky enough to be alive finally ushered in the dawn.

But what made people desperate was that the beast did not leave as usual, but did not stop and turned to a young child about ten years old not far away.

Faced with the huge mouth of the fierce beast, the young child couldn't suppress the fear in his heart, and was so frightened that he wanted to escape, but how could he outrun the fierce beast?

In a few steps, the beast's maw was near, and the boy fell in a panic and fell into the fire, where a flame ablaze.

But the beast looked at the young boy whose clothes were on fire, but instead of speaking, he turned his mouth to another person.

But just when the other person was about to die in the mouth of the fierce beast, with the sound of several firecrackers and the roar of a child, the huge mouth of the fierce beast stopped in an instant, and the figure disappeared from people's field of vision in an instant.

After the beast fled, the rescued people were puzzled and did not understand what was going on with the beast.

After months of research, there are smart people who have discovered several of these clues.

First, the fierce beast eats people, after devouring the power of Xi, and before devouring the power of Xi, the eyes of the fierce beast are not red.

From this, it may be attributed to the fact that the fierce beast is an evil force that has devoured Xi, and its own consciousness is affected, so it will be ferocious.

In the years that I remembered before, the escape of the fierce beast seemed to be at ten o'clock in the morning, but in fact, there would be some errors at that time, and sometimes the sky was not completely increased, and the fierce beast had already left.

Dawn cannot be counted as a reference, but when the beasts leave, there is one thing in common, there must be a loud sound around them, or the sound of gongs and drums of sacrifices in the distance, or the sound of firecrackers to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

From this, some people deduced that the beast may have been too powerful in hearing, and was afraid or disgusted by loud sounds.

Coupled with the fact that the young child's clothes caught fire, the beast shifted its target, and some speculated that it might not like the color red yet.

According to these two inferences, on Chinese New Year's Eve the following year, people put red charms on the door and bed early, and chased firecrackers.

After the beast absorbed the power of the night, it wanted to break into a people's home, but after seeing the red charm on the door, it shifted its target.

After confirming a conjecture, someone tried to light a firecracker and throw it out the window.

After a loud bang, the beast disappeared as suspected, and since then, people have known how to fight this beast, and they are no longer bothered by the scourge of the beast.

And the fierce beast, after having a restraint method, has also completely become the savior of restraint Xi.

Later, the people gave the beast a name - Nian. ”

"Bringing copper money before Chinese New Year's Eve is called pressing the year; when the old and the new alternate such as the vigil after the New Year's Eve, when the old and the new alternate, the year appears to absorb the power of the eve, which is called Chinese New Year's Eve; after Chinese New Year's Eve, the year is fierce, sticking red charms to avoid it, setting off firecrackers to chase it away, which is called the New Year!"