What is the origin of China New Year? What are the allusions to celebrate New Year's Eve, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival?

Keep your age at 30, commonly known as "endure the year." Why is it called "Endure the Year"? There is an interesting story among the people: in Archean, there was a fierce monster scattered in the deep mountains and forests, which people called "Nian".

Nian has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, animals and scale insects, and changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Slowly, people mastered the activity law of "Year". It turns out that every 365 days in 2008, I will go to places with many people to taste fresh food, and the haunt time is after dark. When the rooster crowed at dawn, it returned to the mountains.

When the ravaging date of "Nian" was determined, men and women regarded this terrible night as "Nian Guan" and came up with a set of methods for "New Year Guan". Every night, every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire, cleans the stove, then binds all the stalls in the henhouse, then seals the door and hides in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve".

Because this dinner has ominous meaning, it is very rich. In addition to inviting the whole family to have dinner together to show a harmonious reunion, they will also worship their ancestors before eating and pray for their safe passage through the night. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and got up the courage to chat.

It was getting dark, and Nian escaped from the depths of the forest and touched into the village. I saw that the door of every house was closed, the door was full of sesame stalks, and there was no one in the street. After turning for more than half a night, I found nothing, so I had to chew sesame stalks to satisfy my hunger. After a while, the rooster crowed, and these cruel and stupid monsters had to go home disgruntled.

Those who survived the "Year Pass" were overjoyed. They thanked the ancestors of heaven and earth for their protection, congratulated each other on not being eaten by Nian, opened doors, set off firecrackers, and met relatives and friends in the neighborhood to congratulate each other. When people meet, they bow to each other and congratulate each other, glad that they have not been eaten by Nian beast. After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast.

On the night of the 30th, Nian beast suddenly jumped into a village. A village was almost eaten up by Nian beast, and only a pair of newly-married couples in red curtains were safe and sound. There are also some children who lit a pile of bamboo in the yard and are playing. The fire is red, and bamboo explodes after burning. Nian beast turned here, saw the fire and turned around and ran away.

From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. At the end of each year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian Beasts dare not come again.

2. Create a perpetual calendar.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young man named Wannian. Seeing that the festivals were chaotic at that time, he had an accurate plan. But he couldn't find a way to calculate the time. One day, he was tired of chopping wood up the mountain and sat in the shade to rest. The movement of the shadow inspired him. He designed a sundial to measure the time of the day.

Later, inspired by the dripping spring water on the cliff, he began to make a five-layer clepsydra to calculate the time. Over time, he found that every 360 days, the four seasons would cycle once, and the length of the weather would be repeated.

At that time, the monarch was called Zu Ti, who was often troubled by the unpredictable weather. After ten thousand years of knowledge, he went to see the monarch with a sundial and a clepsydra, and explained to Zu Ti why the sun and the moon moved.

Zu Ti rejoiced and felt right. So I left for ten thousand years and built the Sun and Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, as well as the sundial platform and the Leaky Pot Pavilion. I hope I can accurately measure the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the exact time in the morning and evening, and create a calendar to benefit people all over the world.

"Sunrise and sunset three hundred and sixty, start all over again. The vegetation is divided into four seasons and there are twelve laps a year. " Knowing that the perpetual calendar was created, I personally boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit the perpetual calendar.

Wan Nian pointed to the astronomical phenomena and said to Zu Ti, "It's been twelve months now, the old year has passed and the new year has begun again. Please make a festival for you. " Zu Ti said, "Spring is the first year of a year, so let's call it Spring Festival".

3. Lantern Festival girl

Dong Fangshuo, the favorite of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, is funny and kind.

One winter, I went to the imperial garden to enjoy plums, and I met a maid-in-waiting who wanted to jump into a well and commit suicide. After the rescue, Shuo asked why. It turned out that the maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao missed her relatives for a long time after entering the palace, so she thought of suicide.

Dong Fangshuo expressed sympathy and promised to help. Dong Fangshuo set up a stall for divination, and everyone invited someone to do it. As a result, "the 16th day of the first month burned us", which caused great panic in Chang 'an.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Dong Fangshuo for advice, saying, "Chang 'an was robbed, and the palace was set on fire for 15 days, and the midnight snack was flaming red. "Explain: On the fifteenth night of the first month, every family hangs lanterns to eat Yuanxiao, and people outside the city go to the city to see lanterns, just like the fire in the city hides from the Jade Emperor.

That night, Yuanxiao's parents went to the city to see the lights. With the help of Dong Fangshuo, the family was finally reunited.