Ancient Chinese legend had had a monster named nian head long sharp edges, fierce abnormalities, in "the beast in the seabed, each elder deep into the New Years eve and climbed out to swallow cattle damage lives, each to New Years eve, people CunCunZhaiZhai FuLaoXieYou and fled to the mountains, to avoid" nian "damage.
Again a year New Years eve, folks like ever busy tidy up thing to prepare fled to the mountains, e a time village head east white-haired old man, a white-haired old man to jehu old woman say as long as let him in her family lives a night, he will surely "nian" beast driven away. They do not believe, old woman advised its still went up into the mountain from the good, but the old man stayed, all see advised him not to live, then went up the mountain in succession from.
When "nian" beast like usual ready to burst into village, when suddenly spread across the firecracker, "nian" beast mix body chills, and never forward pool, originally "year" beast most afraid of red, the light of fire, and exploding. Then door open, see the old man wearing red nosoial a laugh, "nian" beast was surprised and hasty retreat.
The next day, when the people back to the village from mountains, he found the village safe and sound, this is suddenly enlighted, originally white-haired old man is to help you evict "nian" beast immortals, people also found a white-haired old expel "nian" beast three pieces of magic weapon. Since then, the New Years eve, everybody pasted red couplets, firecrackers, every household lights, ShouGeng for years. This customs more spreadses more and widely, bee the Chinese folk ceremonious traditional festival "Chinese New Year".
中国古代传说曾有一种叫“年”的怪兽，头长棱尖，凶猛异常，在“兽”的海底，每到除夕夜，长者就会深入海底，爬出来吞牛破坏生命，每到除夕夜，人们就会村村寨福老老幼，逃到深山中，以躲避“年”的破坏。
又一年除夕，乡亲们像以往一样忙着收拾东西准备逃到山里，一位时间村里的东头白发老人，一位白发老人对耶户老妇人说只要让他在她家里住上一晚，他一定会把“年”兽赶走。众人不信，老婆婆劝其仍上山自善，但老爷子留了下来，众人见劝他不要活了，便纷纷上山自善。
当“年”兽像往常一样准备冲进村庄时，突然传来漫天的炮竹，“年”兽混得浑身发冷，再也不敢往前冲，原来“年”兽最怕红色、火光、爆炸。这时门开了，只见身穿红袍的老人哈哈大笑，“年”兽吓了一跳，急忙撤退。
第二天，当人们从山上回到村里时，他发现村里安然无恙，这才恍然大悟，原来白发老人是帮大家驱逐“年”兽的.神仙，人们还发现了白发老人驱逐“年”兽的三件法宝。从此，除夕之夜，大家都贴红对联，放鞭炮，家家户户亮灯，守旧连年。这一习俗越传越广，成为中国民间隆重的传统节日“中国新年”。