New Year’s Eve Legends and Folk Myths
New Year’s Eve is a very important day, it is the last day of every year , which means the new year is about to start.In order to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, folks have the custom of staying up late, eating New Year’s Eve dinner, pasting couplets, setting off firecrackers, in addition to some myths and legends.
Shilang Shexi
A long time ago, there was a monster called "Xi".This guy specializes in hurting people, especially if he sees a beautiful girl in a house, he will spoil her at night.Afterwards, he had to eat the girl to be content.The common people hate it to death, but there is no way.
There is a hunter named Qilang, who is extremely powerful, shoots arrows very well, and feeds a very powerful dog.Any beast dares to fight.When Qilang saw that the people were being tortured by "Xi", he wanted to get rid of him.He took the dog to look for "Xi" everywhere, but he couldn’t find it.It turns out that "Xi" doesn’t come out during the day.It comes out to harm people after the sun sets, and disappears after midnight.No one knows where it lives.
Qilang has been looking for "Xi" for a year.It was already the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month.He came to a town and saw that people were happily preparing for the New Year.There are many, there are many girls, maybe "Xi" will come.He asked people in the town to prepare for a discussion, saying that "Xi" is most afraid of noises, and told everyone not to sleep when it was dark.Find more things that knock loudly and put them at home, and knock hard whenever there is any movement, so as to scare the "Xi" out and get rid of it.
That night, "Xi" really came, and he was discovered as soon as he broke into a house.The family immediately knocked on the pots and pots, and when the family knocked, the whole town followed."Xi" was so frightened that he ran around, only to be seen by Qilang.Qilang released the hunting dog to bite him, and "Xi" fought with Qilang and the dog.When people heard the killing outside, they all picked up things and knocked loudly.At this time, "Xi" couldn’t fight, and wanted to escape, but who knew that his hind legs were bitten by the hounds.Qilang took the opportunity to open his bow and shot fiercely, killing "Xi" with one arrow.
Since then, people have called the twelfth lunar month "New Year’s Eve".On this night, every household must keep the year old and set off cannons, which means to drive away bad luck and welcome happiness and auspiciousness.
Stay old and stay old
In ancient times, there was a ferocious monster scattered in the mountains and forests, people called them "nian".It has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature.It specializes in eating birds and beasts, scale insects, and insects.It changes its taste every day, from kowtow insects to big living people, which makes people talk about "year".Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of "Nian".It rushes to the place where people gather to taste fresh food every three hundred and sixty-five days, and the time of haunting is after dark, until the cock crowing and dawn., they went back to the forest.
As soon as the date of the "Nian" raging was determined, the people regarded this terrible night as a pass and called it "Nian Pass", and they came up with a whole set of ways to celebrate the New Year Pass.On this evening, every household prepares dinner ahead of time, turns off the fire and cleans the stove, then ties up all the chicken pens and cattle pens, seals the front and rear doors of the house, and hides in the house to eat "New Year’s Eve dinner".
Because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck, it is very rich.In addition to asking the whole family to dine together to show harmony and reunion, it is also necessary to make sacrifices to ancestors before eating and pray Blessed by the gods of our ancestors, we spent the night peacefully.After dinner, no one dared to sleep, and we sat together to chat and strengthen our courage.It gradually formed the habit of staying up late on New Year’s Eve.
Nian Beast Legend
In ancient times, there was a monster called "Nian" in ancient China.One day in the middle of the night, the "Nian" beast broke into the village.It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years:the old woman’s house in the east of the village, the door was pasted with red paper, and the house was brightly lit by candles.The "Nian" beast shuddered and let out a strange cry.When approaching the door, there was a sudden explosion of "bang bang bang bang" in the courtyard, "Nian" trembled all over, and did not dare to move forward.It turned out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosions.Since then, people all know the way to drive away the "Nian" beast.From then on, every New Year’s Eve, every family posted red couplets and set off firecrackers;
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