A long time ago, people did not celebrate the New Year, but now why set off fireworks, beat gongs and drums, and celebrate the New Year happily? Here's an interesting story.
Earlier, on the night of the end of winter and the beginning of spring, a beast called "Nian" ran into the village, biting people when they saw them, and eating animals when they saw them, which was very fierce and made everyone uneasy. Everyone thought that "Nian" was a lack of food, so they had to go into the village to harm people and livestock, so every night, they put the prepared pigs and sheep at the head of the village and let "Nian" enjoy it, and after "Nian" had eaten enough, he didn't bother to go into the village. In the future, every day and night, it will be fine.
Coincidentally, once in the morning, it was difficult to give "Nian" food to eat, and everyone pooled their money to buy a skinny pig's head and a leg of lamb, and put it in the village to give "Nian to eat." When Nian came to the village to see this little pig's head and leg of lamb, he was very angry, swallowed it in two bites, and before he was half full, he broke into the village again to find food.
At this time, there was a family in the village, the man was sick, lying on the bed, and the woman brought a bowl of dumplings from the kitchen for him to eat. When several children saw it, they all came together to eat it, and the father could not bear to eat it alone, so he gave each child one to each. When the children ate it, the mother served them the corn flowers fried in a copper pot. In order to prevent "Nian" from entering the hospital to make trouble, my mother also lit a fire in the hospital.
After a while, "Nian" broke into this courtyard, saw a bunch of fire burning, somehow, just wanted to get closer to see a competition, but unexpectedly "snapped" a loud noise, it frightened. Then, there was another "crackling" noise, which frightened it into shouting and turning back and running, and when it reached the door, it heard a loud "dangling" noise in the room, which frightened it into running away with its tail between its legs.
It turned out that the bamboo in the fire was burned and exploded, and the sound frightened "Nian" into shouting, and the cry of "Nian" frightened several children into crying, and when the children cried, they lost their hands and dropped the copper pot containing fried corn flowers on the ground, and the sound scared "Nian" to escape faster.
The next day, the family told them how Nian was scared away, and everyone was very happy and rushed to tell each other. On the night of another late winter and early spring, they did not send food to nian, but left what had been given to nian to eat, leaving it to their adults and children to enjoy. However, in order to prevent "Nian" from committing evil again, they lit fires in their homes, burned more green bamboo, and knocked more copper pots, frightening "Nian" not to dare to enter any village or enter any family. Every night, adults and children sit around eating good things, laughing and celebrating. Staying up late at night is called keeping the year, which means that it has not been eaten by the "year" and has been kept until the age of one; The next day, it was called the New Year, indicating that it had passed the "New Year". It's just that people think that burning bamboo is too wasteful, so they make firecrackers; The copper basin was not easy to knock, and a copper gong was made.
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