Legends and folklore of Chinese New Year s Eve, legends and customs of Chinese New Year s Eve

In ancient times, there was a monster called Xi, with a long head and antennae, which was extremely ferocious, and often devoured livestock and harmed human life. The people of the villages and villages helped the old and the young to flee to the mountains to escape the harm of the night beasts. On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, the people of Peach Blossom Village are helping the old and the young to take refuge in the mountains.

At this time, a child came from outside the village, and I saw that the child had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was very beautiful. When the child came to the east end of the village, he saw an old woman and asked why everyone was alarmed. The old woman had no choice but to tell the child that Xi was coming to make trouble again, and the child smiled

Mother-in-law, my name is Nian, let me stay at your house for one night, and I will definitely drive the 'Xi' beast away." The old woman agreed and went up the mountain to take refuge.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, it is necessary to paste New Year's red, light firecrackers, observe the New Year, and issue New Year's money. Legend has it that there is a vicious-looking, natural ** evil beast called "Xi", because of the lack of food in winter, often go to the nearby villages to find food, bringing great disasters to the villagers, the stool at the end of the year on this day people defeated the night, so this day is called Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chinese New Year's Eve. Sticking the New Year's red, firecrackers are said to be also to drive away the Year Beast, at the door to paste Zhang Fei Guan Yu and other door gods of the calligraphy and painting is said to be able to suppress the Year Beast, and the Year Beast is afraid of red, afraid of loud noise, so the firecrackers scare away the Year Beast, now the Year Beast metaphor is not good evil.

It Chinese New Year's Eve is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil spirit, and the younger generation can get the New Year's money to spend a year in peace.

Keeping the New Year, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve, means that the fire will not be extinguished all night, and it is said that after this illumination, the family will be enriched with wealth in the coming year.

Origin of Chinese New Year's Eve: Chinese New Year's Eve, as a festival at the end of the year, originated from the customs of removing the old cloth and sacrificing ancestors at the end of the year in ancient times, and the day of the New Year's Eve is the traditional ancestor worship festival. It is said in ancient books:

Heaven and earth are the foundation of life; The ancestors are also the foundation of the kind. It means that the heavens and the earth are the foundation of life, the ancestors are the foundation of our human beings, and ancestor worship is a custom of inheriting filial piety. Legend:

In fairy tales, there was a four-horned and four-legged beast in ancient times, Xi, who was short of food due to heavy snow in winter, and often went to the nearby villages to find food, because of its large body, short temper, and ferocious abnormality, which brought great disasters to the villagers. At the end of each month, people tidy up their clothes to help the old and the young, and go to the nearby bamboo forest to take refuge. Customs:

Chinese New Year's Eve is extremely important for the Chinese. On this day, people are ready to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year, and have a reunion dinner. Family is the cornerstone of Chinese society, and the annual reunion dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of family members of the Chinese nation, and this mutual respect and love makes the relationship between the family closer and closer.

The reunion of the family often makes the head of the family feel comforted and satisfied spiritually, and the elderly see that the children and grandchildren are full of children, and the family is full of hidden hail and family life, and the hard work of caring for and raising children in the past is finally not in vain, which is how happy it is. The younger generation can also take this opportunity to express their gratitude to their parents for their nurturing grace. The above content reference:

1. Chinese New Year's Eve is a festival that evolved from the expulsion of the pre-Qin period. The so-called "expulsion" refers to the ancients using the method of drumming to expel the "ghost of the plague" on the day before the New Year, and there is a "Lü's Spring and Autumn Season and Winter Record" to examine, and "expulsion" is the origin of the "Chinese New Year's Eve" festival. Chinese New Year's Eve should first be the "Records of the Wind and Soil" and other historical books written by the Western Jin Dynasty.

2. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a four-horned and four-legged evil beast - Xi, when the heavy snow covered the mountain, the Xixi gathering went to the nearby disaster to find food, at the end of each month, people sorted out their clothes to help the old and the young, and went to the nearby bamboo forest to hide in the night.

3. This year, when the villagers were preparing to evacuate, a kind mother-in-law rescued the children who fainted on the side of the road from hunger and took them to the bamboo forest to take refuge. The mother-in-law told the child that Xi chased here and hurried away when she saw people cutting bamboo. The child thought about it for a while, and told everyone that he had a way to get rid of the eve, let everyone cut more bamboo knots and take them, and hang a red cloth outside the door of each house when they went home.

4. Xi struck again, and the child came forward to attract Xi's attention and asked the villagers to throw broken bamboo into the fire, but everyone froze because they were afraid. At this moment, "Xi" picked up the child with his horn 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! "Xi" turned around when he heard this sound, and did not damage anything in the village again.

5. Xi was scared away, and the householder was saved because Xi didn't enter because of the red stripe hanging in front of the door, but the smart boy who saved the village died. And this day is the first day of the first lunar month. This clever child, his name is "Nian".

6. Because the "Eve" did not die, so every year on the tenth day of the lunar month, everyone waits for the broken bamboo festival, hoping to get rid of the "Eve" as soon as possible. But a year has passed, no one has ever seen the "Xi" again, some are just the firecrackers set off by everyone to prevent the arrival of the "Xi" and the red cloth hanging in front of the door, but it has left us this legend and the customs of the New Year.

7. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a vicious animal, which was very powerful, and people called it "Nian". The word "year" occurs every 365 days. As soon as the "year" thing comes out, it will endanger human beings and cause great disasters to people.

"They come out at night, so people turn off their lights and stay up all night to avoid disasters." Later, I found that wearing red clothes and the sound of burning firecrackers could drive the "year" away. Therefore, at the end of each year, when the "New Year" is about to appear, people set off firecrackers to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck in the coming year.

Therefore, the custom of setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year has been passed down to this day.

Chinese New Year's Eve, as a year-end festival, originated from the custom of removing the old and clothing the new at the end of the year in ancient times, and sacrificing ancestors. The earliest mention of the name "Chinese New Year's Eve" was the local customs chronicle "Wind and Soil Records" written by the Western Jin Dynasty.

The last day of the year is called "Year Division", and that night is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". It is connected with the beginning and end of the new year, which is called "the end of the year, the end of the year", which is the eve of the new year and an important time junction point for removing the old and welcoming the new. Chinese New Year's Eve is also known as the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve because it is often on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.

On the day of the New Year, the people attach great importance to it, and every household is busy or cleaning the courtyard, removing the old cloth and the new, putting up lanterns, welcoming the ancestors home for the New Year, and offering rice cakes, three animal meals, three teas and five wines.

Since ancient times, Chinese New Year's Eve has had customs such as ancestor worship, keeping the New Year's sparrow, reunion dinner, sticking New Year's red, hanging lanterns, etc., which have been passed down to this day and have endured for a long time. Influenced by the decay of Chinese culture, Chinese New Year's Eve is also a traditional festival in countries with Chinese character cultural circles and overseas Chinese around the world. In 2007, Chinese New Year's Eve officially became a legal holiday in China in accordance with the Measures for National Festivals and Memorial Day Holidays.

In 2014, Chinese New Year's Eve was adjusted according to the decision to revise the "National Annual Festival and Memorial Day Holiday Measures" and was no longer regarded as a legal holiday in China.

Chinese New Year's Eve Legend: In Chinese folklore, there is a monster called "Xi" who comes to plague the people on the 30th day of the lunar month every year. Later, the common people asked the slightly clumsy stove prince for help.

So the king of the stove went to heaven to move the rescue soldiers and invited Shennong's grandson - "Nian". Although "Nian" is still very young, he is very brave and a little hero. "Nian" decided to go down to the mortal world to eliminate harm for the people, and he brought two magic weapons, one was a bamboo tube that sprayed thunderbolt sparks, and the other was a colorful red silk.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the monster "Xi" really came. "Nian" took his two treasures and had a fierce fight with the monster "Xi", and finally got rid of the monster "Xi". Later, in commemoration, people called the 30th day of the lunar month "Chinese New Year's Eve"; And in order to commemorate the "Chinese New Year's Eve heroes", the first day of the first lunar month is called "year".

On the first day of the new year, we should rejoice in the "New Year".

And the two treasures used in "Nian" to subdue monsters, the colorful red silk and the thunderbolt bamboo tube, evolved into couplets and firecrackers.

The legend of Chinese New Year's Eve keeps the year alive.

In the primeval period, there was a fierce monster that lived in the deep mountains and dense forests, and 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 "New Year" was raging, the people regarded this terrible night as a pass and called it "New Year's Pass", and came up with a whole set of ways to pass the New Year's Pass: Every night on this day, every household 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 the "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner".

In addition to asking the whole family to gather around to eat together to express harmony and reunion, it is also necessary to offer sacrifices to the ancestors before eating, pray for the blessing of the ancestors' gods, and spend the night peacefully; after dinner, no one dares to sleep, huddle together and chat and strengthen their courage, and gradually form the habit of staying up on Chinese New Year's Eve and keeping the year.