In ancient times, there was a monster called "Nian", usually basically living in the sea, because of the large size of the slow movement, it is difficult to catch food in the sea, resulting in frequent starvation, the Nian Beast set its sights on the land, initially often went to the land to find physical food, but most of the time was empty-handed, the time for a long time the beast knew that in the winter when humans stored a lot of grain, the Nian Beast decided to fix it in the winter and spring of each year, it went to the human world to loot food, destroyed the human house, and made the human world restless.
This year is winter again, the villagers are looking for a place to hide grain, there is an old grandmother in the village, and told the villagers not to be afraid of the "Nian Beast", I will recover it tonight, the villagers looked at the old grandmother wearing a red qipao, shook their heads and took care of themselves to find a place to hide grain, when it was almost dark, everyone in the village rushed to the mountain, there was a kind little girl called this old grandmother wearing a red cheongsam to go up the mountain with them to avoid the Nian beast, the grandmother waved and did not have to run, you stayed at home and stayed well. See how I can clean up the beast, the kind-hearted little girl plans to stay in the village with this grandmother, if grandma can't beat her, there is also a helper to save her.
Night fell on the whole village is pitch black, only to see a faint candlelight, candlelight reflects a high and a low two figures, yes, there is only a grandmother and a little girl left in the village, the nian beast is about to step into the village as promised, only to hear a crackling sound in the village, scared the nian beast a spirit, is preparing to slip, who knows the grandmother jumped to the back of the nian beast, at the same time a huge red cloth should be dispersed, blocking the retreat of the nian beast, only to see the nian beast's eyes widen, as if seeing the devil, Lying on the ground and not daring to move, the grandmother shouted, "The evil beast is not fast enough to enter my jade bottle", and the nian beast smelled and turned into a puff of green smoke into the jade bottle in the grandmother's hand.
The grandmother was originally guanyin incarnated, came to the human world to help recover the Nian beast, the whole process of recovering the Nian beast was seen by the little girl, xiao Gu Liang told the villagers that firecrackers and red cloth can drive away the Nian beast, so that one passed on to ten hundred, and gradually there was a new Year's custom, and the New Year must also be put on firecrackers and stickers, symbolizing auspicious health.