China New Year's Legend Excellent Composition
The Legend of China New Year Excellent Composition 1 Modern folklore calls the New Year China New Year. In fact, the origin of Chinese New Year and Spring Festival is very different.
So how did the year come from? There are mainly two kinds of folk sayings: one is that there was a fierce monster called Nian in ancient times, which went door to door on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. On the night of the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Nian came to a village. It happened that two cowboys were fighting for a whip. Nian suddenly heard the sound of whipping in mid-air and ran away in fear. It fled to another village and saw a bright red dress drying in front of the door. It didn't know what it was, so it turned around and ran away. Later, he came to a village, looked into the door of a family, and saw that the lights were brightly lit and dizzy, so he had to slip away again, with his tail between his legs. From this, people realized that Nian has the weakness of being afraid of noise, red and light, so they thought of many ways to resist it and gradually evolved into the custom of celebrating the New Year today.
Another way of saying this is that ancient calligraphy books in China put the word "Nian" in the Ministry of Grain, which means good weather and good harvest. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. "Year" is extended to the name of the year.
Although there was a custom of Spring Festival in ancient China, it was not called Spring Festival at that time. Because the Spring Festival referred to at that time refers to the "beginning of spring" among the 24 solar terms.
The Northern and Southern Dynasties generally referred to the Spring Festival as the whole spring. It is said that the Lunar New Year was officially named Spring Festival after the Revolution of 1911. Because the solar calendar was used at that time, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed the Spring Festival in order to distinguish between farmers and farmers.
In ancient times, there was a monster called Nian. Its head was long and sharp, and it was fierce and unusual. I lived at the bottom of the sea for many years in. Every new year's eve, it climbs ashore to devour livestock and hurt people's lives. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village help the elderly and take care of the young, and flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of the New Year.
On New Year's Eve this year, the villagers were busy packing things and fled to the deep mountains. At this time, a white-haired old man came to the east of the village and told an old woman that as long as he stayed at her house for one night, the "Nian" beast could be driven away. The old woman didn't believe it, but the old man insisted on staying. Seeing that he couldn't stay long, they went up the mountain to hide. When Nian beast was ready to break into the village as usual, it suddenly came. Nian beast trembled and never dared to move forward. Originally, Nian beast was most afraid of red, fire and exploding. At this moment, when Daimon Masaru opened, I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. The "Nian" beast was frightened to disgrace and fled in haste.
The next day, when people returned to the village from the depths of the mountains, they found the village safe and sound. Only then did they suddenly realize that the white-haired old man was a fairy who helped everyone drive away the "Nian" beast. At the same time, people also found three magic weapons for the white-haired old man to drive away the "Nian" beast. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets, set off firecrackers and kept the lights bright for the New Year. This custom spread more and more widely and became the most solemn traditional festival in China.