The monster related to the Spring Festival is called gluttony or year

Year, according to legend, in ancient times, there is a fierce monster called "year", all year round in the deep sea, but at the turn of the old and new year, it will come out to trample on the strong crops, hurt people and animals, and the people complain bitterly. On one occasion he went to the village again to commit a crime, and was scared away by the big red clothes hanging in front of the house. When I got to another place, I was frightened by the lights again.

As a result, people have mastered the weakness of "Nian" who is afraid of sound, red, and fire. At the end of the year, people stick red couplets, set off firecrackers, hang red lights at the door of their homes, burn firewood in the yard, gather firewood, chop vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, and make sounds.

Frightened the "year" to flee back to the sea, no longer endangering people and animals. Over time, it has become a custom for the New Year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends visit each other to congratulate each other on not being hurt by the "New Year" and escaping the difficulty of the "New Year", so the "New Year" is also called the "New Year", which is also the origin of the New Year's greetings.

2 versions: 1. The monster is called the year. 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 of the ravages of the "New Year", the people regarded this terrible night as a passing point, called the "New Year's Pass", and came up with a whole set of ways to pass the New Year's Pass

Every night, every family prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire and cleans the stove, and then ties all the chicken pens and cattle pens, seals the front and rear doors of the house, and hides 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 asking the whole family to eat together to express harmony and reunion, but also to sacrifice to the ancestors before eating, pray for the blessing of the ancestors' gods, spend the night peacefully, after dinner, no one dares to sleep, huddle together and chat and strengthen courage. The habit of staying up on Chinese New Year's Eve has gradually formed. 2. The origin of Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve is the eve of the Spring Festival, also known as the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

There is a legend: in ancient times, there was a vicious monster called Xi, which came out to harm people at the end of the year, and later, people knew that Xi was most afraid of red and sound, so on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household posted red spring couplets and set off firecrackers to drive away the Chinese New Year's Eve beast. For a peaceful new year.

This custom has been passed down since then, and the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is called Chinese New Year's Eve.