What are the legends about New Year’s Eve? What are the customs of New Year’s Eve?
New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival are the two most important traditional festivals in my country. Every week before the New Year, lights and decorations are hung everywhere. So what are the legends about New Year's Eve? What are the customs of New Year’s Eve? The Fortune Teller website has carefully prepared relevant topics for the 2018 Chinese New Year and New Year’s Eve. Everything you want to know is included. Come and have a look!What are the legends about New Year’s Eve?At the end of December, people would pack their clothes, take the elderly and children with them, and go to the nearby bamboo forest to avoid the gloom.One year, the villagers were packing up to escape when they came across a child about seven or eight years old, who had collapsed on the side of the road due to hunger. A kind old woman rescued the child and asked him to go up the mountain with her to avoid the evil beast - Xi. The clever child followed the old woman and the villagers to the bamboo forest behind the village. Because it was extremely cold in the bamboo forest in winter, people cut bamboo to build houses and made fires to keep warm. The child who was rescued by the old woman asked everyone curiously: Our bamboo forest is so close to the village, aren’t you afraid that Xi will come here? An old man answered him, "When I was young, I came here with my fellow villagers to avoid Xi. In those years when the snow was heavy, it was extremely hungry and followed us here. However, every time it saw the villagers cutting bamboo in the bamboo forest, it hurried away." The child thought for a while and told everyone, "I have a way to get rid of Xi so that everyone won't have to flee every twelfth lunar month." Everyone was very happy after hearing this, and asked what to do. This smart child told everyone: cut more bamboo joints and take them home, so that everyone in the village can go home tonight! Just hang a piece of red cloth outside the door of each of your houses, and after tomorrow morning, Xi will never come again. The villagers listened to the child's words with half belief and half doubt, and were taken back to their homes by the village elders. Soon it was night, and the villagers were afraid that "Xi" would come, so no one dared to sleep. In addition to hanging red cloth strips outside their doors, they came to the open space in the middle of the village and guarded some broken bamboo joints brought back from the bamboo forest. The weather was cold, so everyone lit a fire to keep warm. When they were hungry, they took out some food... At midnight, a deafening roar was heard, and everyone huddled together in fear. At this time, the clever boy suddenly stood up and said to everyone, "I will lure him over here, and then everyone can throw the broken bamboo pieces that we have been guarding all night into the fire." Before the kind old woman could reach out to pull the child, the child had already arrived at the entrance of the village. The child saw Xi breaking into the village and destroying a lot of things, so he shouted loudly: You come here every year and make it impossible for the people to live and work in peace. Today I must teach you a lesson! When "Xi" heard the child's cry, it followed the sound, but when it saw red cloth strips hanging on the doors and walls of every house, it did not dare to go in. So it followed the child's voice and endured its hungry stomach to the open space in the center of the village. At this time, the child shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, throw the broken bamboo joints into the fire!", but everyone was already standing there frozen in fear. At this moment, "Xi" picked up the child with his horns and threw him heavily to the ground. The villagers reacted when they heard the sound of the child falling to the ground and started throwing bamboo joints into the fire. Since the bamboo had been cut down not long ago, the wet bamboo joints burst into pieces when exposed to the strong fire, making crackling sounds! Upon hearing the noise, Xi turned around and ran away, and never came back to the village. To commemorate this victory, every winter at this time, every household would paste red paper couplets on the door, light lanterns, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers and fireworks; at night, they would stay up all night; and the next day, they would congratulate each other early in the morning. This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation and has become the "Chinese New Year". What are the customs of New Year’s Eve?The climax of New Year's Eve is when the elders give out "lucky money" after the New Year's Eve dinner. Next, the whole family will stay up until the early morning. The next step is to put up Spring Festival couplets and door gods and close the door. The door is not opened until the morning of the first day of the new year to "welcome the God of Wealth".The lights on New Year's Eve stay on all night long and are commonly known as "light years". Many of our Chinese New Year idioms and customs today come from this legend: New Year's First Day: In order to let their descendants remember the child who saved the whole village - Nian, people called the morning after dawn "Nian". It is the first day of the first lunar month, so it is also called New Year's Day. Eve Watching the New Year: the process of everyone waiting for the Broken Bamboo Festival. Shousui is the short form of watching over broken bamboo pieces. New Year’s Eve: On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, everyone watches the bamboo festival and waits for the New Year. Red cloth: today's couplet. On New Year's Eve, everyone was hungry, so taking things out to eat evolved into the New Year's Eve dinner we have today, where we all gather together and laugh and chat. |
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