The origin of Chinese New Year

In ancient times of China, there was a fierce monster called nian. Nian lived in the mountains all day and ate all kinds of animals. And the taste is very unique, a day for a taste, the forest animals eat, run out, see people eat.
On the last day of every year, nian goes to the village to eat people. So it's extremely frightening.Interestingly, they only come out to eat people on this day. After hiding in the forest do not come out, until the end of another day. Anyway is to eat to eat, a year did not eat people, can think how hungry.He always came out to eat people at night, but he didn't know where to sleep by day.
You have a regular routine, guys. It's easy to do things on a regular basis, but we're afraid that guy won't play by the same rules. The question is, how do you use this?people think.
Well, from one to three hundred and sixty-five days, before it was dark, everyone locked the doors, put out the lights, and hid the animals.
Of course, the masses are still very public heart,Because of the cold weather,people can not bear to see the beast alive to hungry. So, people have to break the sesame pole thrown into the yard, to eat the beast.
The villagers and their families hid in the house. They were afraid of being eaten. So they sat together and encouraged each other. But this will not do. You must get something to warm yourself, and cook something.
This will probably be the last supper for our family. Maybe we will meet in the belly of nian tomorrow.Well, the last supper, must be rich, chicken, duck, fish, everything can not be less. Not only the living, but also the dead ancestors.
What will you do after the last supper? Nian the beast that guy come, sleep, afraid of nightmares. How to do? Otherwise everybody sits together, knock knock melon seed, chat, avoid year beast to say again tomorrow.
When it was dark, nian ran excitedly into the village and ate 364 kinds of animals according to the recipe.
But the door was shut everywhere, and the light was faintly burning in the room.Nian first inspected the outside, sniffed here and there, but could not find any animals.Occasionally there are a few daredevil mice, yesterday have eaten, today do not eat, must eat people.Years beast smell to smell, what also didn't smell, smell outside a bundle of a bundle of sesame rod, sesame has long been taken away, only broken sesame rod. Of course, there will be some sesame seeds left inside.
Then it had no choice but to leave hungry.But the end of another year is coming, and nian is going to eat people in the village.This time it became a child, madam, and the beggar knocked at the door.The ate a lot of people.
People found hiding at home is not the way, so they came up with a way to make the beast afraid.After many years of confrontation with nian, they found that nian was not very brave and was afraid of red things.
So people cut red paper into various shapes and put them on the doors and Windows. On New Year's eve, people get together to chat loudly and make firecrackers with bamboo which can explode to drive away the nian beast.
Gradually, the Chinese New Year has become an annual traditional festival. During the holidays, people drink freely, taste delicious food, get together with their families and relax themselves so that they can have a good year.