A legend about a year of about 50 words.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian, which was in the deep sea all the year round, but at the turn of the old and the new, it came out to destroy crops and hurt people and animals, and the people complained bitterly. Once it went to the village to do evil again and was scared away by the red clothes hanging at the door. When I arrived at another place, I was frightened by the lights, flames and sounds. So people have mastered the weakness of Nian's fear of sound, red and fire. At the end of each year, people put up red couplets, set off firecrackers, hang red lights at home, burn wood for fire in the yard, chop vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, make noise, scare Nian back to the sea, and no longer endanger people and animals. Over time, it has become a variety of customs for the New Year. ?

Legend 2:

It is said that Nian beast is big and small, more than ten feet long, and its eyes are like two bells, coming and going like the wind; It makes the sound of "Nian ~" when it barks, hence the name "Nian Beast". Over time, people gradually found that Nian beast was afraid of three things, namely, red, fire and loud noise; So later, people will get together on New Year's Eve when the new year's animals arrive, stick red paper (later, they will gradually stick peach symbols or red couplets), hang red lanterns, set off firecrackers and so on, so as to drive away the new year's animals. After the animals are driven away, people always say happily to each other, "It's been another year." Slowly, there is a saying of the New Year, and there is a custom of the New Year.