Every place has its own customs. What are the traditional short stories about Chinese New Year?

According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, with long Bluetooth and sharp claws, which was extremely fierce. Living in the mountains for many years, every

It was not until New Year's Eve that someone went down the mountain to devour livestock and hurt his life. Therefore, every new year's eve, every family runs away from home to avoid the harm of Nian beast, and put this

It's called "China New Year".

On New Year's Eve, people are helping the old and taking the young into the mountains to take refuge, and an old beggar comes from outside the village. Someone sealed the window and locked the door, and someone cleaned it up.

There was a sea of people everywhere, and there was a scene of panic and haste. No one cared about the begging old man. Only an old lady at the east end of the village wrapped jiaozi to invite the old man to dinner and advised him.

He hurried up the mountain to avoid Nian beast. In order to repay the kindness of the old woman, the old man told her that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion, and asked her to wear red clothes at the door.

Stick red paper on the wall, light red candles, burn bamboo in the yard and make an explosion.

At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. Found the village brightly lit, its eyes were blindfolded by dazzling red, and heard someone coming from home.

Loud firecrackers sounded, so I ran away trembling all over. Since then, people have known the way to drive away the New Year. Every New Year's Eve, every family sticks red couplets and burns red couplets.

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 of the lunar new year, we will go to relatives and friends to congratulate each other and celebrate the Year of the Animal.

Abuse. Later, this custom spread more and more widely and became the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

2. The Legend of Fu Tao

A long time ago, Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea had beautiful scenery, and there was a peach forest on the mountain. One of the peach trees was huge, leafy and winding.

Thousands of miles away, peaches are big and sweet, and people who eat peaches from this tree can become immortals.

One dark night, a ghost with blue face and fangs, red hair and green eyes tried to steal Xiantao. The owners of Taolin, Shen Tu and Lei Yu, defeated them with peach branches.

Ghosts, tied with straw ropes, are fed to the tiger watching the mountain. From then on, the names of the two brothers scared ghosts and became special punishment after death.

The fairy of the evil spirit. Later generations painted two immortals, Shen Tu and Lei Yu, on a mahogany board one inch wide and seven or eight inches long to drive them away.

Ghosts ward off evil spirits. This red board is called "Fu Tao".

3. The legend of "Fu Zi"

Ming Taizu used the word "Fu" as a code word to prepare for murder. In order to eliminate this disaster, kind Ma Huanghou made the whole city big and small at dawn.

I put a word "Fu" on the door before. Naturally, no one dares to go against Ma Huanghou's will, so the word "Fu" is posted on every door. that

Some families can't read, so they turn the word "fu" upside down.

The next day, the emperor sent people to the streets to check and found that every family had posted the word "Fu", and another family had posted the word "Fu" upside down. The emperor listened to the report.

Angry, he immediately ordered the body guard to cut down the house. Ma Huanghou saw that the situation was not good and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "That family knows about you today.

When you visit, you deliberately put the word "Fu" upside down. Isn't that what "Fu Dao" means? "The emperor a listen to reasonable, then ordered the release, a catastrophe.

To eliminate. Since then, people have turned the word "Fu" upside down for good luck and in memory of Ma Huanghou.