Essay "Folklore of Nankang" 400 words

The New Year's Eve vigil is the custom of staying awake on the last night of the old year to welcome the arrival of the new year, also known as the New Year's Eve vigil, commonly known as the "New Year's Eve". Explore the origins of this custom, in folklore is an interesting story:

The ancient times, there is a ferocious beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people called them "year". It is hideous, ferocious nature, specializing in eating birds and beasts, scales and insects, a day to change a flavor, from knocking insects have been eaten to the living, so that people talk about the "year" color change. 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, and so on, until the cock crows at dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go.

Calculating the date of the "New Year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a pass to brake, called "New Year's Pass", and came up with a whole set of New Year's Pass approach: every night, every family is ahead of time to do a good job of dinner, extinguish the fire! net stove, and then the chicken coop cattle pen all tied up, the front and back doors of the mansion are sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty