Why do we need to "pass the New Year", is it the light monkey or the year-old beasts shattered? The spring festival of the farm has come to see you and welcome you

During the New Year of the Agricultural Calendar, there are always many customs in traditional families. These customs are based on some mythological stories. In Taiwan, there are not only one New Year stories. Because there are many ethnic groups in Taiwan, different ethnic groups have their own mythological stories. Therefore, Yuanqi.com has selected several common stories to share with the festival and readers.

Taiwan's New Year: The light monkeys have entered the speech, which almost caused great floods

Among the people in Taiwan, there is a New Year's speech that is good for both humans and gods. It is said that a long time ago, because of the relationship between the singular faith, all things were spiritual, so when the ancestors of Taiwan passed the New Year, they would sacrifice various objects and thank them for their help over the past year. However, among the many objects, they ignored the lamps and monkeys (oil lamps) on the god table.

Since he was not grateful, the monkey ran to the Jade Emperor to tell the story, saying that the people on the ground were delicious and were wasteful and ungrateful. Because it was the end of the year, the farming on the earth had decreased and most people were not at work. In addition, the year was eliminated, and many useless things were cleared out, which changed the light monkey's words. So the Jade Emperor was furious and ordered King Long to give a big flood to eliminate these ungrateful and wasteful people.

Many gods who know the inner feelings feel dissatisfied with others, so they conveyed the news of the flood to the people on earth, hoping that they will prepare well. People feel that the blessing of the gods cannot die with them, so they will perform a ceremony to send the gods back to heaven and worship their ancestors on New Year's Eve, and then wait for the arrival of the great flood.

While people were waiting for death, the gods did not give up and continued to travel to the Jade Emperor. So the Jade Emperor sent heavenly soldiers to find out the truth. After discovering that it was the stolen monkey, he withdrew the order of the flood and severely slashed the Light Monkey. In the early morning, people discovered that the flood had not come, so they set off firecrackers and worshiped the gods, and thanked the gods for their blessings.

Chinese New Year: Years of the Year raging, firecrackers are out of old age

China says that in the cold winter and at the end of the year, "Year Glass" will appear, and this monster will eat people, so as long as the end of the year, everyone will hide in the mountains, fearing that the Year Glass will eat themselves. Once, an old beggar came to the village to beg for trouble. Everyone was afraid of it. Only an old woman gave the old beggar a meal and asked the old beggar to go to the mountain to avoid difficulties. Unexpectedly, the old beggar refused.

Late at night, the young beast entered the village and found someone in the old lady's house. He went straight to the old lady's house and found that it had posted its most quaint red paper on the door. Then he heard the sound of the fire-burning bamboo. This was also the most quainted flames and sounds of the young beast. In the end, the young beast was scared to escape from the village. Later, when people returned to the village, they discovered that big red paper and firecrackers were found. They believed that this was the way to restrain the years and gradually formed the custom of sticking out spring and setting off firecrackers.

After many times, people defeated the "year-old beast" through these methods, so the villagers beat the drums and then congratulated each other on their own, so that they would not be eaten by the year-old beast. Because it escaped the rampant rage of the New Year, the Spring Festival is called "Past New Year", which is also the origin of the term "Past New Year".

The meaning brought by the New Year's Eve

The spring festival in the agricultural calendar is usually the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It is the sound of the silence of the world. It is the beginning of the resurrection. Whether it is the light monkey or the year's Eve, it is all about elimination and death, and the end of the new life that escapes a disaster. This represents We must keep the good experience of the past year, then get new learning from bad things, and finally leave some bad things and mood on New Year's Eve; when the New Year comes, the flame represents purifying all the unpleasantness, and then look at the new year with a good mind and a new life perspective!