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What is the relationship between China's new year's animal Nian and the evil animal Xi on New Year's Eve?

Year is a fairy, evening is an evil beast, and year has defeated evening, so there is the saying of New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster named Xi who would come out to harm people at the end of each year. Later, people knew that Xi was most afraid of red and noise, so on the evening of the 30th of this year, every family put up red couplets on New Year's Eve and set off firecrackers to drive away animals, so as to achieve peace in the New Year. This custom has been passed down to this day, and New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve.

Celebrate the Spring Festival

The concept of age comes from the ancient calendar, and the ancient book says: "The Emperor of Heaven began to establish a name to determine the age." The ancients took heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, and the heavenly stem carried the way of heaven, and the earth supported the way of the earth; In nature, it takes shape underground, in human luck; Therefore, heavenly stems and earthly branches was established to contract the fate of heaven and earth. Heaven and earth have a position, time and space are determined by branches, and time and space are determined by the world.