A story about the origin of firecrackers

1, Dong Fangshuo in the Western Han Dynasty said in the Miraculous Classic that there was a ghost more than a foot long in the western hills, named "Mandrill". It's ghosts that make people suffer from cold and fever. If you scare it away, people will become lucky and safe. It is said that mandrill is afraid of fire and noise, so people have come up with a way to deal with it, that is, put a bamboo tube in the fire and let the bamboo joints make a sound when burning to scare away mandrill.

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian. Every year1February 30th, it goes door to door, foraging for human flesh and killing people. 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 setting off firecrackers in the New Year today.