A short story about folklore

I. Posting Spring Couplets--It is said that Meng Chang, the ruler of the state of Shu in the Five Dynasties, was a king who liked to innovate. On New Year's Eve at the end of the year of 964 A.D., he had a whim and asked one of his subordinates, a bachelor named Xin Yinxun, to write two phrases on a board of mahogany, which he used as a peach talisman and hung them on the doorframe of his residence. The two sentences are "New Year's Day is a time of celebration, and the Jiacheng Festival is a time of perpetual spring".

The first sentence is to the effect that the New Year is a time to enjoy the legacy of our ancestors. The second sentence is to the effect that the festive season heralds the perpetuation of spring. From this beginning, both the form and content of the peach symbol changed, becoming one of the earliest spring scrolls in China.

Second, Lapa Festival - is the eighth day of the lunar month (December), originated in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang fell in prison suffering, when the cold days, cold and hungry Zhu Yuanzhang even from the prison rat hole dig out some red beans, rice, red dates and other seven or eight kinds of grains and cereals. Zhu Yuanzhang these things into a porridge, because that day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the waxing moon, Zhu Yuanzhang will be beautifully named this pot of miscellaneous grain porridge for the waxing gruel. Enjoy a beautiful meal.

Later Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, sitting in the north towards the south as the emperor, in order to commemorate that special day in prison, he then set the day as Lahai Festival, the day he ate mixed grain porridge formally named Lahai congee.

Three, New Year's Eve--A long time ago, there was a monster called Nian. In the New Year's Eve that day, the year will go out to the villages to plunder property, food, crops will be trampled, cattle and sheep will be eaten, as long as the year has been to the villages of the people are not living, miserable, people have thought of a lot of ways to defend against the year, but none of them work, the year is not only a big, strong and large, and the eyes and ears, there is no way to prevent him. Until one day, the year to see the village inside hanging red lanterns, lights, but also thumping drums, scared overwhelmed and ran away, people in order to commemorate this day will be called him the New Year.

Four, New Year's Eve - a long time ago, there was a monster called Xi. And the year as big, strong, eyes and ears, and also the same as the year will come out on New Year's Eve. Every step he took was like an earthquake, and he could eat a cow with one mouth, but he wasn't afraid of red lanterns, lights, or drums, so people couldn't do anything about it, and Xiu reigned supreme. So the people sent several pots of strong wine to Yu, Yu drunk, a young man cut off its head. The young man jumped into the Yellow River with his head in his arms, but wherever the head went, fire broke out. The same people called this day New Year's Eve in honor of it.