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In ancient China, the word "Nian" was placed in the Grain Department, indicating that the weather was favorable and the crops were plentiful. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. "Year" is extended to the name of the year.
Single word interpretation year
Nien
1 .one year
A person's age
A person's life or history
① Time unit, the time for the earth to go around the sun once: the beginning of the year; This year; Year-end; Three years and five years.
2 age: age; Age; Young; Longevity
③ People's life is divided into age stages: childhood; Middle age; Old age.
(4) The day when the New Year begins and the days after it; New year's goods: New Year; Chinese new year; New year's goods; New year's dinner
⑤ period; Times: years; Early years; Early years.
⑥ The harvest of crops in a year: the annual harvest; Year; Good times.
7 years: annual meeting; Annual report; Annual output.
Last name. Such as Nian Gengyao, fool melon seeds and Nian Guang Jiu.
Year: niándài era; Divide a century into 10 units, 1 unit, 10 year. Every 10 year is called 1 year.
In order to determine the exact historical age of cultural relics, archaeologists use the most advanced instruments to measure them.
In the prime of life: Nyanf Lichang is young and full of energy.
Young people should study hard while they are young and cultivate their abilities in all aspects.
Tree ring: the trunk of niánlún woody plants, with different growth rates due to seasonal changes, and the xylem section has a ring texture. The total number of rings is roughly equal to the age of plants.
Judging from the tree rings, this big tree is fifty years old.
Old age: niánàI is old.
On the bus, Xiao Qiang gave up his seat to an old man.
Young: niáNQιng is very young, mostly in his teens to twenties.
Most of the employees in this company are young and promising college graduates.
Many years have passed, which is a long time. Describe a long time.
This stone tablet has been weathered by the wind and the sun, and its handwriting is blurred with the passage of time.
More information about this word—
Voice of the year. Oracle Bone Inscriptions-shaped, with "grain" on the top and "people" on the bottom, where the grain is mature and people bear the grain. Small seal script, from the grain, a thousand sounds. Original meaning: One year is ripe, and the whole grain is ripe.
be synonymous
"There must be five grains planted first, and then there will be the word' Nian'. Nian was born in five grains, not five grains. Therefore, Shuowen said: "The year is the valley. "Shangshu Justice quoted Sun Yan as saying:" In 2000, five grains are ripe. " (Excerpted from Huang Xianfan's A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books)
All the grains have matured for a year. -"Gu Liang Chuan"? Three years of Huan gong
When the grain is ripe, it is a bumper year. -"Gu Liang Chuan"? Sixteen years of propaganda "
Good years, lots of millet and lots of hairpins. -"Poetry? Zhou Wei? Harvest year
It's been years -"Zuo zhuan"? Huangong two years. Sparse: "Every year's training is barnyard grass. "
You have a boring job, and you will stay in Pereiro for a year. -"book? roast
It also refers to a year's harvest.
Time is not good to avoid death. -Mencius? Hui Liang Wang Shang "
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In bad times, death is inevitable.
Another example is: bumper harvest every year (bumper harvest of grains); Annual famine (crop failure); Annual harvest (annual harvest); Years of hunger (years of famine)
Year (year) nian
1. Time unit. The earth goes around the sun for one year. Because of the remainder, the Gregorian calendar stipulates that the average year is 365 days and the leap year is 366 days. There are 12 months in a year.
2. age: ~ age. ~ Ji. Also refers to the stage divided by age: green ~. Strong ~ Old ~.
3. Period: Qianlong period. Late Qing dynasty.
4. festivals, related to festivals: celebration ~. New ~. ~ draw. ~ cake.
5. Crop harvest: ~ scenery. ~ all right. Feng ~
(1) One year: in a blink of an eye, it's two ~ heads.
② Times: In the old society, the poor were miserable enough.
(3) Year: This is the boss's bumper harvest year, bumper harvest.
The legend of the "nian" beast has been put up red couplets and set off firecrackers every year since New Year's Eve. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China. What is "year"? It is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. When the year is over, the withered grass will not grow; A year has passed, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend the year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is a custom of setting off firecrackers. 1993, the Beijing Municipal People's Government promulgated a law prohibiting the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, making this centuries-old custom a thing of the past. In ancient China, the word "Nian" was placed in the Grain Department, indicating that the weather was favorable and the crops were plentiful. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. "Year" is extended to the name of the year.
So how did the year come from? There are several folk sayings:
Legend of "nian" beast
According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, with long tentacles and a ferocious face. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast. On New Year's Eve this year, people in Taohua Village were taking refuge in the mountains when an old beggar came from outside the village. He was leaning on crutches, carrying a bag on his arm, with elegant silver whiskers and staring at Matthew. Some villagers sealed windows and locked doors, some packed their bags, some herded cattle and drove sheep, and people shouted boo everywhere, which was a scene of panic. At this time, who still has the mind to take care of this begging old man? Only an old woman in the east of the village gave the old man some food and suggested that he go up the mountain quickly to avoid Nian beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive Nian beast away." When the old woman looked at him carefully, she found that he was young, healthy, energetic and had an extraordinary world outlook. But she continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. My mother-in-law had no choice but to leave home and take refuge in the mountains. At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and bright candles in the room. The beast Nian trembled and let out a long whistle. Nian stared at her mother-in-law's house for a while, then screamed and rushed over. When we were near the door, there was a sudden explosion in the yard, and Nian trembled and dared not go any further. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. "Nian" was frightened to disgrace and fled in confusion. The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly. The villagers flocked to the old woman's house together, only to see red paper on her mother-in-law's door, a pile of unburned bamboo still exploding in the yard, and a few red candles still glowing in the house ... In order to celebrate the auspicious arrival, the ecstatic villagers put on new clothes and hats one after another and went to relatives and friends' houses to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.
The legend of enduring a year
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People in China have the habit of New Year's Eve. Watching the new year begins with eating New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting with lighting lanterns, and some families have to eat it until late at night. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu in the Song Dynasty, at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a custom of New Year's Eve.
The custom of observing the old age not only includes the feeling of farewell and nostalgia for the fleeting time, but also expresses the good hope for the coming New Year. The ancients wrote in the poem "Shousui": "Invite Shousui Arong's family to spread red candles to green gauze; Thirty-six years have passed, and I am more willing to cherish my youth from this night. "It is human nature to cherish the years, so the great poet Su Shi wrote a famous sentence:" There will be no years next year, and I am worried about waste; "Do your best tonight, young people can still boast!" This shows the positive significance of keeping old on New Year's Eve.
Keep your age at 30, commonly known as "endure the year." Why is it called "Endure the Year"? There is an interesting story among generations of people: in Archaean, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains, and people called them "Nian". Nian has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It only eats birds, animals and scale insects, and changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Slowly, people mastered the activity law of "Year". It turns out that every 365 days in 2008, I went to places where people lived to taste fresh food, and the time of haunt was after dark. When the rooster crowed at dawn, they returned to the mountains. When the ravaging date of "Nian" was determined, men and women regarded this terrible night as the "Year's Eve" and came up with a set of methods for "Year's Eve": every family prepared the New Year's Eve dinner in advance, turned off the stove, tied up all the barns, sealed their doors and hid in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve"-because it was very fierce. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and got up the courage to chat.
It's getting dark, and I escaped from the deep forest in and touched the village where people live together. I saw every household's door closed, sesame stalks piled in front of it, but there was no one in the street. After turning around for the middle of the night, I found nothing, so I had to chew sesame stalks to satisfy my hunger. After a while, the rooster crowed, and these cruel and stupid monsters had to go home disgruntled. Those who have survived the "Year-end" are overjoyed. They want to thank the ancestors of heaven and earth for their protection, congratulate each other on not being eaten by Nian, open the door and set off firecrackers to greet their neighbors and friends ... When people meet, they bow to each other and congratulate each other, glad that they were not eaten by Nian beast. After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast. On the evening of 30th one year, Nian beast suddenly fled to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. A village was almost eaten up by Nian beast, and only a pair of newly-married couples in red curtains were safe and sound. There are also a few childish people who lit a pile of bamboo in the yard and were playing. The fire is red. Bamboo exploded after burning. Nian beast turned here and saw the fire turn and flee. From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. At the end of each year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian Beasts dare not come again. In The Book of Songs Xiaoya Tingliao, there is a record of "the light of Tingliao". The so-called "pavilion" is a torch made of bamboo poles and the like. After the bamboo pole burns, the air in the bamboo joint expands, and the bamboo cavity bursts, making a crackling sound, which is the origin of "firecrackers". However, villagers in some places don't know that Nian beast is afraid of red and is often eaten by Nian beast. This incident later spread to the sky in Wei Zi. In order to save people, he is determined to destroy Nian beast. One year the beast came out, knocked it down with a fireball and chained it to a stone pillar with a thick chain. From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Zixing to come down to keep safe.
This phenomenon has gradually become a continuation custom of "Chinese New Year" and "New Year greetings". The custom of "Happy New Year" is rich in content. The usual order is: "worship heaven and earth first, then ancestors, then Gaotang, and then go out to visit relatives and friends." There are also various kinds of pay attention to family worship on the first day, Yue family worship on the second day and relatives worship on the third day until the fifteenth day of the first month.
Another way of saying it is:
In ancient China calligraphy, the word "Nian" was placed in the Grain Department, indicating that the weather was favorable and the crops were plentiful. 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.
In 2000, the legend was originally the territory of ancient river people. It is said that a long time ago, there lived a young man named Wannian at the foot of Dingyang Mountain. His family is poor and lives on firewood and medicine all day. At that time, the festivals were very chaotic, which made farmers uncertain about the agricultural solar terms and often missed the season. Wannian is a calculating young man, and he is determined to set the festival accurately.
One day, Wan Nian went up the mountain to get firewood, and when he was sitting under a tree to have a rest, he saw the movement of the shadows of the trees and was inspired. He made a sundial and measured its shadow to calculate the length of the day. But it can't be calculated when it is cloudy with rain and snow. He thought about making a timer to make up for the lack of sundial. One day, he went to the deep mountain to dig medicine, and saw the spring water on the mountain ringing rhythmically, and he began to understand. After returning home, I tried repeatedly and finally made a five-layer leaky pot that could drip evenly at a fixed water level. Since then, he has continuously measured the shadow of the sun and observed the leakage of water every day. Finally, it is found that every 360 days, the length of the weather will be repeated, with the longest solstice day in summer and the shortest solstice day in winter.
At that time, the son of heaven "ancestral home" was also anxious about the chaos of the festival, so he called hundreds of officials to discuss the matter. A Heng, a festival official in the imperial court, neither understands the laws of motion of the sun and the moon, nor devotes himself to studying them. When the emperor asked about the accident, he said it was because people accidentally offended God, so he had to pray for God's forgiveness. Hearing this, Zu Ti lent a bath, led hundreds of officials to worship heaven, and told all parts of the country to set up a platform to worship heaven.
This is painful for people everywhere. In order to repair the altar, we have to serve and donate money, which wastes people and money. Sacrifices come and go, with little effect, and the four seasons are chaotic. There is no way in ten thousand years to take his sundial and clepsydra to visit the son of heaven.
The son of heaven has been told for 10 thousand years, and he was overjoyed to hear the story that the sun and the moon have been running for 10 thousand years. Even if it is constructed, a Sun Moon Pavilion, a sundial platform and a leaky pot pavilion will be built in front of the Temple of Heaven. And send 12 boys to serve for ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, let six boys keep the sundial and six boys keep the leaky cauldron, accurately record and report on time.
I have been working day and night for three years. One day, the son of heaven sent Ah Heng to Riyuege to inquire about the calendar system, and the ten thousand-year report said, "Sunrise and sunset are 360, and we will start all over again. The vegetation is divided into four seasons and there are twelve laps a year. " After hearing this, Ah Heng was deeply justified. But he is a narrow-minded man with an empty stomach. He thought: if the calendar is set correctly after 10 thousand years, the son of heaven will definitely reuse it after 10 thousand years, and then he will not reuse me. So I decided to get rid of each other.
Ah Heng found an assassin and asked him to assassinate him for ten thousand years. The assassin went to assassinate in the dead of night. But I saw guards around the attic, so I couldn't get close. So he hid in the shadow of a distant tree, pulled out his bow and arrow, and shot at Wannian, who was watching the stars in the attic. An arrow hit the arm for ten thousand years and fell to the ground with a "ouch" in ten thousand years. The teenagers were anxious to catch the thief, so the guards immediately dispatched, caught the assassin on the spot and sent him to the emperor.
After the son of heaven asked the truth, he immediately sent a command to arrest Ah Heng, put him in prison, and then went to Rige to visit Wannian. I was very moved to see the son of heaven come to see me personally after ten thousand years, and pointed to Shen Xing and said, "Shen Xing has caught up with silkworms, and the astrology has also recovered. When the children are handed in at night, the old days are over and it is spring again. I hope the son of heaven makes a festival. The son of heaven thought for a moment and said, "Spring is the beginning of a year, so let's call it Spring Festival.
From then on, Wan Nian observed the vegetation and wheat in Riyuege more carefully, calculated the time carefully, wetted the accumulated time at the end of the year, and worked out the calendar-solar calendar. In May of that year, the son of heaven went to the Temple of Heaven to worship heaven, boarded the Sun and Moon Pavilion, and presented fresh peaches for worship to the eternal god. Give a solar calendar in ten thousand years. The son of heaven was deeply moved by the long-lived eyebrows and beards that worked hard all the year round. The solar calendar is called the perpetual calendar, and the perpetual calendar is the birthday of the sun and the moon. Since then, people have also called the Spring Festival "Year". During the Chinese New Year, every household hangs Shou Xingtu, which symbolizes the longevity of the new year. At the same time, I also expressed my admiration for Wan Nian.
Timing unit
year
365 days, spring, summer, autumn and winter cycle, called a year;
Since "year" is a time unit, it is naturally related to the calendar, and the formation of the calendar is the product of the movement of celestial bodies and the growth law of all things. This process develops with the progress of society and the improvement of people's knowledge.
During the period of primitive agricultural society in China, in the long-term farming practice, the cycle of alternating seasons was discovered, and at the same time, the law between the movement of celestial bodies and the growth of crops on the ground was observed, which is called "observing the image and choosing the time". In the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties two or three thousand years ago, there was a method to record the year, month and day with the change of the astrological orientation referred to by Beidou bucket handle. This is the prototype of the calendar. The first month of each year is called the first month, which is the beginning of the year. Because the calendars used in different dynasties are different, the beginning of a year is different. The first month of the summer calendar is the lunar (agricultural) month we are using now, which is also called "the lunar month on the floor"; In Shang Dynasty, the December of the lunar calendar is now the beginning of a year, which is the so-called "ugly winter moon". The weekly calendar begins in November of the current lunar calendar, which is the so-called "mid-winter month"; The Zhuan Xu calendar was used in the Qin Dynasty, with October of the current lunar calendar as the beginning of the year, which was called the "Moon of Building and Winter". In the early Han dynasty, the Qin calendar was still the standard. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty organized a special team to change the Zhuan Xu calendar to taichu calendar and bring the 24 solar terms into the calendar. The first month of the summer calendar is still the beginning of the year. This is why we still call the lunar calendar (agriculture) the summer calendar.
The word "nian" appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. Before this, Yao and Shun called it "carrying", which means that celestial bodies and stars carry a week. In the Xia Dynasty, it was called "Nian", which means that people are one year older and the Spring Festival is coming. Shang dynasty called it "sacrifice", which means it's past four o'clock. It's time to make history books and worship the ancestors of the gods. Although the word "year" was once changed to "year" in Tang Suzong, the period is very short, also called "year". Year is a unit of time, which has been used until now. A cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter is called a year. The word "zai" appears from time to time in written language, which is obviously influenced by ancient appellations.
The harvest situation is spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the amount of food is the quality of a year;
Another meaning of "year" is harvest. There are four seasons in a year, which is gradually recognized according to the cyclic law of crop growth, growth, harvest and storage. Therefore, in ancient records, the interpretation of "year" is "ancient book leaves" Harvest grain is called "one year", and harvest is called "big year", also called "bumper year". The emperor prayed for the "Hall of Prayer for the New Year" with abundant grain. When singing the praises of the emperor in the traditional Chinese opera, there are lyrics of "the monarch and the minister are all happy, the people are all happy, and the grain is abundant".
The word "nian" was originally the original word of the word "barnyard grass", which means that the crops are ripe and abundant. The word "nian" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the image of a bumper harvest of fruits, so it is not difficult to understand the close relationship between "nian" and crops.
festival name
year
"First in a Hundred Years", this is a joyous celebration of happy event, which is called China New Year.
Another meaning of "Year" is the name of the festival. This is a day that everyone should celebrate. After the collection, the farm work in the field is over, and the first thing that comes to mind is to repay the blessing of the gods and the shade of the ancestors. Cook rice, make wine, and offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, hoping for another bumper harvest in the coming year. Over time, it has formed an annual law. However, in ancient times, when the sacrificial ceremony was held was uncertain, but it was limited to the period when the old and new years alternated.
As a festival, Nian was formed in the Han Dynasty. The people suffered from the disintegration of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Although Qin unified China, the corvee taxes were extremely harsh and the people lived in poverty. It was not until the Han Dynasty that the society was relatively stable and the economy became increasingly prosperous that the people had the opportunity to recuperate, creating conditions for year-end celebrations and New Year greetings.
When is a year called "Year"? Nature is the first day of the year. However, due to the different calendars and the feudal consciousness of emperors, it was difficult to determine the first day of the first year at first. The feudal emperor of China claimed to be the son of heaven. In order to show their purpose of "serving the sky", the order of months changed many times with the change of dynasties. The first month is not fixed, and the first day is naturally not fixed. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed Zhuan Xu Calendar to taichu calendar, although Wang Mang, Wei Mingdi, Wu Zetian, Tang Suzong, etc. all used the weekly calendar, the time was short. Therefore, the people always take the summer calendar as the standard, and the first day of the first month is the New Year.
There are many changes in the name of the New Year. In ancient times, it was called Shangri-La, Yuanri, Shuodan, Jacky, Zhengri, Zheng Dan, Zheng Chao, Sanyuan (the yuan of the year, month and day) and Three Dynasties (the dynasty of the year, month and day). Later generations gradually called New Year's Day. After the Republic of China, China adopted the solar calendar as well as the lunar calendar, and the 1 day of the solar calendar was also New Year's Day. China folk customs don't pay much attention to the solar calendar. Although institutions and schools have holidays on New Year's Day in the solar calendar as usual, people do not regard this day as a holiday. Nevertheless, there can't be two "years" in a country, so New Year's Day in the lunar calendar is called "Spring Festival".
The custom of Chinese New Year in Shanghai
The 24th of the twelfth lunar month is the day when Kitchen God plays with things in the sky. Therefore, on the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, every household will "send a stove" and "offer a stove", and the celebration of the New Year will begin. The 25th day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when immortals descend to earth.
Traditionally, every household has to be cleaned inside and outside. From 26th to 29th, every household began to grind flour, make jiaozi, make rice cakes, prepare new clothes, buy Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and "door gods". On New Year's Eve, families of all ages gather indoors and sit together to eat New Year's Eve under the light, hence the name "Family Fun". After the New Year's Eve, keep watch around the stove. At dawn, men, women and children put on new clothes, hats and shoes, and offered sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in the class. Then, young people and young people pay New Year greetings to their parents. They distribute the lucky money prepared years ago to their children.
Taiwan Province Province, China
Before it gets late, every household will prepare offerings, such as sweet oranges, sweet rice fruits (rice cakes), "spring rice (paper-cut spring characters inserted on pointed rice)" and "lucky money". Behind the gate, there are two sugarcane with leaves and leaves, which are called "perennial sugarcane". When eating New Year's Eve, there are new charcoal stoves and new sunflower fans under the square table, and the words "spring" and "happiness" written in red paper are affixed to the fans and stoves. After the New Year's Eve, it is a birthday celebration. In the first day of junior high school, people get together, worship their parents (that is, Gong Zu's grandmother) with red and white rice cakes, and then set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year.
Hong Kong
On New Year's Eve, every family has a reunion dinner together. Most dishes of the reunion dinner have auspicious meanings.
After the reunion dinner, people usually go to the New Year's Eve market to visit the flower market. On the first day of New Year's Day, people began to formally celebrate the New Year, posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, dancing dragons and lions, and visiting relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year.
Macao
"Xie Zao" is one of the most traditional China customs preserved in Macau.
On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people in Macao called it "Xie Zao". Macao people celebrate the New Year from the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. On New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival and visiting the flower market are two major events for Macao people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Shousui is playing mahjong, watching TV, catching up and chatting; Macau holds a flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges, with strong floral fragrance, which indicates a bright future for the new year. On New Year's Day, Macao people pay attention to "benefiting the market" to show good luck. "Profit market" is a red envelope. On this day, the boss meets the employees, the elders meet the younger generation, and even the married see the unmarried. Macao people call New Year's Day the "opening year". To eat "New Year's meal", they must have laver, lettuce and carp to make money and profit.
Another legend about nian
According to legend, in ancient times, there was a monster called Nian in Yesanpo, which had long tentacles and was fierce. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.
On New Year's Eve this year, people in Taohua Village were taking refuge in the mountains when an old beggar came from outside the village. He was leaning on crutches, carrying a bag on his arm, with elegant silver whiskers and staring at Matthew. Some villagers sealed windows and locked doors, some packed their bags, some herded cattle and drove sheep, and people shouted boo everywhere, which was a scene of panic. At this time, who still has the mind to take care of this begging old man? Only an old woman in the village east gave the old man some food and suggested that he go up the mountain quickly to avoid the "Nian" beast. The old man said with a smile, if my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive the Nian beast away. When the old woman looked at him carefully, she found that he was young, healthy, energetic and had an extraordinary world outlook. But she continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. My mother-in-law had no choice but to leave home and take refuge in the mountains.
At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and bright candles in the room. The beast Nian trembled and let out a long whistle. Nian stared at her mother-in-law's house for a while, then screamed and rushed over. When we were near the door, there was a sudden explosion in the yard, and Nian trembled and dared not go any further. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. "Nian" was frightened to disgrace and fled in confusion.
The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly. The villagers flocked to the old woman's house together, only to see red paper on her mother-in-law's door, a pile of unburned bamboo still exploding in the yard, and a few red candles still glowing in the house ... The ecstatic villagers put on their clothes and hats to celebrate the auspicious arrival, and went to relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast.
Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.
Year-end custom
People in China have the habit of New Year's Eve. Watching the new year begins with eating New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting with lighting lanterns, and some families have to eat it until late at night. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu in the Song Dynasty, there was a custom of New Year's Eve dinner at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589 AD).
The custom of observing the old age not only includes the feeling of farewell and nostalgia for the fleeting time, but also expresses the good hope for the coming New Year. The ancients wrote in the poem "Shousui": "Invite Shousui Arong's family to spread red to blue gauze with candles; Thirty-six years have passed, and I cherish the years since this night. " It is human nature to cherish the years, so the great poet Su Shi wrote a famous sentence: "There will be no years next year, and I am worried about waste; Try to do it tonight, and the teenager can still boast! "This shows the positive significance of New Year's Eve.
Keep your age at 30, commonly known as "endure the year." Why is it called "Endure the Year"? There is an interesting story circulating among generations of people: in Archean, there was a fierce monster scattered in the deep mountains and forests, and people called them "Nian". Nian has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, animals and scale insects, and changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Slowly, people mastered the activity law of "Year". It turns out that every 365 days in 2008, people will go to places where people live in concentrated communities to taste fresh food, and the haunt time is after dark. When the roosters crow at dawn, they go back to the mountains. Men and women regard this terrible night as "New Year's Eve" and come up with a set of methods for "New Year's Eve": every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire, cleans the stove, then ties up all the chicken coops, and then seals the door and hides in the house to eat "New Year's Eve"-because this dinner is ominous, it is very rich. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and got up the courage to chat.
It's getting dark, and I escaped from the deep forest in and touched the village where people live together. I saw every household's door closed, sesame stalks piled in front of it, but there was no one in the street. After turning for more than half a night, I found nothing, so I had to chew sesame stalks to satisfy my hunger. After a while, the rooster crowed, and these cruel and stupid monsters had to go home disgruntled. Those who have survived the "Year-end" are overjoyed. They want to thank the ancestors of heaven and earth for their protection, congratulate each other on not being eaten by Nian, and open the door to set off firecrackers to greet their neighbors and friends. ...
After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast. On the evening of 30th one year, Nian beast suddenly fled to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. A village was almost eaten up by Nian beast, and only a pair of newly-married couples in red curtains were safe and sound. There are also a few childlike innocence, in the yard lit a pile of bamboo to play, red. Bamboo exploded after burning, and Nian beast turned around and fled when it saw the fire. From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. At the end of each year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian Beasts dare not come again. In The Book of Songs Xiaoya Tingliao, there is a record of "the light of Tingliao". The so-called "pavilion" is a torch made of bamboo poles and the like. After the bamboo pole burns, the air in the bamboo joint expands, and the bamboo cavity bursts, making a crackling sound, which is the origin of "firecrackers".
However, villagers in some places don't know that Nian beast is afraid of red and is often eaten by Nian beast. This incident later spread to the sky in Wei Zi. In order to save people, he is determined to destroy Nian beast. One year the beast came out, knocked it down with a fireball and chained it to a stone pillar with a thick chain. From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Zixing to come down to keep safe.
This phenomenon has gradually become the custom of "Happy New Year" and "Happy New Year", which is rich in content. The usual order is: first worship the heaven, then worship the ancestors, then go to Gaotang, and then go out to visit relatives and friends. There are also various kinds of pay attention to family worship on the first day, Yue family worship on the second day and relatives worship on the third day until the fifteenth day of the first month.