Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional virtues - Speech on Chinese New Year Folklore

Speech on Chinese New Year Folklore

Title: The Beast of the Year and "Nianshou"

It is said that in ancient China, there was a beast called "Nian", with a green face, fangs, sharp horns and claws, which was ferocious. It lived in the mountains for many years, and only came down on New Year's Eve to devour livestock and hurt people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in every household leave their homes to avoid the harm of the beast, which is called "New Year's Eve".

In the middle of the night, the beast broke into the village. It found that the village was brightly lit, its eyes were blinded by the red color, and it heard loud firecrackers coming from some people's houses, so it fled with trembling. From then on, people know the way to drive away the year, every New Year's Eve, every family stick red couplets, firecrackers; household candlelight, keep the night. Early in the morning on the first day of the year, but also to go to friends and relatives to say hello, congratulate each other through the ravages of the beast of the year. Later, this custom spread more and more widely, and became the grandest traditional festival in Chinese folklore. Nowadays, the Spring Festival every year, the good days every day, but the face of our environmental situation, garbage littered, sewage flow, a variety of pesticides, vegetables and fruits everywhere, (the following please give the matter of your side of the environmental protection status of the speech, to show your position, call and everyone to protect the environment, starting from their own.) Time relations, you write some of your own, I'm off, I hope you can be satisfied.