The legend of staying up and keeping the year, and the introduction of staying up and keeping the ye

The origin of this custom has an interesting story in the Han folk:

In the primeval period, there was a kind of fierce beast, scattered in the deep mountains and dense forests, people called them "Nian". Its appearance is hideous, natural **, specializing in birds and animals, scaly insects, a day to change a taste, from kowtow insects to eat big living people, let 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 every 365 days to taste the freshness, and the time of haunting is after dark, and when the rooster cries at dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests.

After calculating the date when the "year" was raging, the people regarded this terrible night as a pass, called "New Year's Pass", and came up with a whole set of ways to pass the New Year: every night, every family prepared dinner in advance, turned out 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 then made a fire and boiled many cypress branches to drive away the New Year, and then hid in the house to eat "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner", because this dinner has a bad luck and uncertain meaning, so it is very rich, In addition to the whole family to dine together to express harmony and reunion, it is also necessary to make offerings to the ancestors before eating, pray for the blessing of the ancestors' gods, and spend the night peacefully. The custom of staying up on Chinese New Year's Eve and keeping the year of every household has gradually formed.

Keeping the New Year is a Chinese folk custom on Chinese New Year's Eve, also known as lighting waste, lighting the New Year's fire, staying up late, etc. The folk custom of keeping the New Year is mainly manifested in the Chinese New Year's Eve lights that are not extinguished all night, and the keeping of the year is called "lighting the lamp", that is, lighting lamps and candles all over the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is said that after this illumination, the wealth of the family will be enriched in the coming year. Keeping the New Year also refers to a family reunion on Chinese New Year's Eve and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year.

In the north, the New Year's Eve is to start with the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and this Chinese New Year's Eve meal should be slowly made to make it durable, and some people will eat until late at night. On this night of "two years old in one night, five watches in two years", the family was reunited and gathered together. The whole family sat around, and the table was filled with refreshments and fruits.

In the New Year, Apple is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". In the north, some people also have to provide a pot of slippery rice, burned before the year, to be offered for the New Year, called "every other year's rice", is to have leftover rice every year, all year round can not be eaten, but also eat the meaning of the grain of the previous year. This pot of rice and millet is generally mixed with rice and millet to cook in spring, and it is called "two rice rice" in Beijing, which is called "gold and silver rice" in order to have yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver rice" with "gold and silver, and a pot full of gold and silver".

In China, since ancient times, the people have had the habit of "staying up and keeping the year" on Chinese New Year's Eve. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner begins with a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time of the palm tassel lantern, and some people have to eat until late at night. 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, symbolizing the exorcism of all evil plagues, diseases, and running away, and looking forward to the auspicious new year. This custom has been passed down to the present day.

Interpretation: The legend of the Spring Festival is "to stay up and keep the year".

The meaning of the Spring Festival "staying up and keeping the year":The custom of keeping the New Year not only has the feeling of regret and nostalgia for the passing years of the dismantling of divination, but also has the meaning of placing good hopes on the coming New Year. The ancients wrote in a poem "Keeping the Year":

Invited to guard the New Year's Arong family, the wax torch passed red to the blue yarn; Thirty-six years have been wasted, but since then I cherish the years. "It is human nature to cherish the years, so Su Shi, a member of the great poetry Yushi, wrote the famous sentence of "Keeping the Year":"There will be no year next year, and I am afraid that my heart will be ruined; Work hard tonight, the boy can boast!

This shows the positive significance of the Chinese New Year's Eve observance.

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". It is not known when the practice began, as there is no authoritative historical record of such an event.

But there is a legend that all the gods in the sky came to earth on Chinese New Year's Eve, and one of them the one-legged god would go to the bed of each house and scatter disease on him when he saw someone sleeping, so no one dared to sleep on Chinese New Year's Eve. Most of the children can't stay up late, but they don't sleep in the bed and sleep in their mother's arms.

Because the New Year's Eve has to be kept all night, although it is only when it is the child, it is relatively long, and it is necessary to drink some tea or sugar water and other drinks to refresh the mind, and eat some fried beans, peanuts, melon seeds or something to entertain. And because the Chinese New Year's Eve is the last day of the year, and the night is the new year, which symbolizes that the family eats from the old year to the new year, and sends food every year.

The folk tale "The Origin of the Chinese New Year's Eve".

Once upon a time, there was one, the Jade Emperor, she had a little daughter, virtuous and kind, very sympathetic to the poor people in the world, but he secretly fell in love with you, the poor boy was very angry after the soul knew it, so he beat the little daughter, and the mortal world followed the poor boy to suffer, the little daughter was frightened, and the Jade Emperor returned to the sky after the suffering on the earth not only did not sympathize with him, but also disliked him, and the little daughter took revenge on the Jade Emperor's vicious heart.