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In ancient times, there was a little devil who was worse than the devil. His name is Sui. It is dark all over and its hands are white. Every New Year's Eve comes out to harm people, and the victims are smart children. Every time the family happily ate the New Year's Eve dinner and gradually fell asleep, Chong sneaked in. I saw it go through the door and window and see the sleeping child. I reached out my snow-white hand and touched the child's head three times. The child began to jump up, shouted "wow", then had a fever and talked nonsense, and got sick from then on. The fever has gone down, and the clever child has changed, or his eyes have become straight and he has become a fool; Or laugh and cry, talk nonsense, and become crazy. People hate and fear being different. Every year after the New Year's Eve, adults are afraid of hurting their children, so they light the lights, and the family sit together and dare not sleep, which is called "keeping special". However, Chong still hurts children on New Year's Eve every year.

There is a family named Guan in the city who opened a sauce shop. The husband and wife have been thrifty at home until they are in their fifties and have a new child. It is really "getting old is more precious than gold"! Husband and wife hold night clothes day after day and raise their children to be fat in vain. On New Year's Eve, the couple frowned and worried! Oh, don't come, you harmful bastard The couple ate the New Year's Eve with sad faces, set the table, offered three sacrifices, and asked the Bodhisattva to bless the children to spend the New Year's Eve safely and happily, and lit the lights to let the children be together.

Tired of playing with bamboo and wood gadgets, the child took a piece of red paper and eight copper coins, wrapped eight copper wallets in red paper, opened them again, wrapped them again, and opened them again ... It was late at night, and when the child was tired of playing, he threw the copper coins wrapped in red paper on the pillow and fell asleep.

Late at night, a strong wind suddenly blew outside the window, creaked, the closed door was blown open, and the lights went out with a scream. At this moment, a black shadow flashed in, ah, the special forces came! Guan and his wife wanted to shout, but they couldn't, so they had to watch with their bare hands, open the curtains and touch the child's head. The old couple closed their eyes in despair. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning on the child's pillow. He quickly retracted his white hand and screamed "squeak, squeak" and fled without a trace.

Guan and his wife hurried to light the lamp and saw the child sleeping soundly as if nothing had happened. Strange, what will flash and scare away precious things? Mr. and Mrs. Guan searched and searched for the child's pillow, touched and searched, searched and searched, and found nothing but eight copper coins wrapped in red paper. Hey, are you afraid of red paper bags?

On New Year's Day, children are still jumping, talking and laughing. Mr. and Mrs. Guan were surprised and happy, so they told everyone about last night. As a result, the news that red paper bags can drive away special forces spread.

It's another year in a flash. On New Year's Eve, people follow the custom of closing the house. After New Year's Eve, they wrapped eight copper coins in red paper and gave them to the children to put on pillows. Sure enough, after a night, all the children were safe.

It is difficult to know when the custom of Chinese New Year originated, but it is generally believed that it originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties. Spring Festival is the most important and grand traditional festival in China. The first day of the first month is the beginning of a year. In the first or middle of the first month, most of the time happens to be in beginning of spring (a little time in beginning of spring is in the late twelfth month). Now the first day of the first month is called the Spring Festival; The final determination of the specific time of the festival is believed to be related to the minimum impact on agricultural work at this time. The last day of the lunar year (30th and 29th of the lunar month) is called "New Year's Eve". On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to have a New Year's Eve dinner (the last meal of the Lunar New Year). After New Year's Eve, there are customs of staying up late (keeping New Year's Eve) and giving lucky money, which means keeping it from the last day of the lunar new year to the first day of the following year. Therefore, Spring Festival is also called China New Year. In the south, New Year's Eve is the first day of New Year's Day, which is the last day of the year, which means that the year will pass.