New Year's Eve tales and legends are Qilang shot Xi, boiled year-end vigil, spring couplets door god.

1, the seven Lang shot Xi

Legends that in ancient times there was a four-horned, four-legged beast - Xi, when the snow closed the mountains, Xi party to the nearby harm the neighbors looking for food, every to the end of the waxing moon, people are sorting out clothing to help the old and the young to the nearby bamboo forests to hide from the Xi. This year, the village was preparing to take refuge, a kind grandmother saved the child who fainted from hunger on the side of the road, and brought him to the bamboo forest to escape from Xi. The grandmother told the child that Yuki had chased him here and left in a hurry when she saw people cutting bamboo.

The child thought for a moment and told everyone that he had a way to get rid of Xi, so he told everyone to cut more bamboo sections and take them with them, and to go home and hang a piece of red cloth outside the door of each house. When Xiu came again, the child stepped in to attract Xiu's attention, and asked the villagers to throw broken bamboo sticks into the fire, but everyone froze out of fear. At this moment, Yuki picks up the child with his horn and throws him to the ground. The villagers reacted to the sound of the child hitting the ground and threw bamboo sticks into the fire.

Because it was so soon after being cut, the wet bamboo stalks burst into flames and crackled. "When he heard the noise, Yuki ran away without damaging anything else in the village. Yuki was scared away, and the house of the tenants was saved because Yuki didn't enter because of the red strip hanging in front of the door, but the clever child who saved the village died. And that day was the first day of the first month.

The name of the clever boy was Shichiro. Because Shichiro didn't die, every year on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, everyone waited at the broken bamboo festival, hoping to get rid of Shichiro soon. This is said to be the origin of the name of New Year's Eve, and the hanging of the red cloth and the lighting of the bamboo festivals gradually evolved into the posting of lucky charms and the setting off of firecrackers in later generations.

2, the New Year's Eve

The ancient times, there is a fierce beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people called them "year". Later, people slowly mastered the "year" of the activities of the law, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days scurrying to the crowd of places to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, until the rooster breaks the dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go.

Calculating the date of the "year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a gate to brake, called "New Year's Eve", and came up with a set of New Year's Eve approach, every night, every family is done in advance of the evening meal, extinguish the fire! The net stove, and then all the chicken coop cattle pen tethered to the front and back doors of the mansion are sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner".

Because this dinner is very well organized, in addition to the whole family to dine together to express the harmony and reunion, but also in the meal before the ancestors must be sacrificed to pray for the blessing of the ancestral spirits, and peacefully through the night, after dinner, who do not dare to go to bed, sitting together in a crowded chatting gallantry. Gradually formed the habit of New Year's Eve to stay up to keep the New Year's Eve.

3, Spring Festival door god

In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a ghost world, there is a mountain, the mountain has a big peach tree covering three thousand miles, the top of the tree there is a golden chicken. Whenever the golden rooster crowed in the morning, the ghosts that had gone out to roam at night would be rushed back to the ghost world. The gate of the Ghost Realm was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two divine beings named Shentan and Yubi.

If a ghost did something harmful at night, the gods would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and feed it to the tigers. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world were afraid of Shentian and Yubi. So the folk used peach wood to carve into their likeness and put it in front of their house to avoid evil and prevent harm. Later, people simply carve the name of God Tantui and Yubi on the mahogany board, thinking that this can also suppress the evil to go to the evil. This kind of peach wood board was later called "peach talisman".

To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany board, without losing the significance of the mahogany to suppress evil, the second is to express their good wishes, the third is to decorate the portal, in order to beautiful. And write couplets on red paper to symbolize the joy and good luck, the New Year on both sides of the doors and windows, to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year. It is said that when two door gods are pasted on the front door, all demons and ghosts will be afraid.

Introduction and Meaning of New Year's Eve:

New Year's Eve is a term that first appeared in the Zhou Li - Chun Guan - Situ, which originally referred to the last day of the year. The original meaning was the last day of the "year", that is, "the year is over". In ancient times, "year" referred to the year of the lunar calendar, that is, from the first day of the first month to the 30th (or 29th) day of the waxing moon. Therefore, New Year's Eve is the night of the last day of the lunar year, which is the night before the Spring Festival.

New Year's Eve is not only a festival for us Chinese, but also a cultural symbol. It carries our emotions and expectations for our family, our motherland and our life. It embodies the unity, diligence, wisdom and creativity of our Chinese nation. It also demonstrates the vastness, depth, splendor and diversity of our Chinese culture.