What does it mean to turn on the lights all night on New Year's Eve? According to legends and allusions.

New Year's Eve is the last day of the year. At night, every house is brightly lit until dawn. What does it mean to turn on the lights all night on New Year's Eve? Let me say something according to legends and allusions:

1. Ancient robber legend:

Legend has it that the forces of various ethnic groups in ancient times were constantly in dispute and the public security was extremely poor. Every new year's eve, bandits and robbers on the mountain will enter the village on a large scale and plunder property and food. Because it is dark at night, it is difficult to tell which house has been ransacked. In order to prevent the villagers from entering the ransacked house again, they often light a lamp in the ransacked house to show the difference.

A clever grandmother once lit a lamp at home, and bandits passed by her house, thinking that her family had been ransacked by her accomplices and would not go in again. The next day, the news spread all over the village, so every New Year's Eve, everyone would light a lamp at home to avoid disaster. Over time, the saying that the lights are not turned off on New Year's Eve gradually spread.

2. Legend of Nian beast: In other questions and answers, I wrote the story of Nian beast, which is another version of Nian beast legend, and this version is also widely circulated. According to legend, in ancient times, there was something called nian in the deep sea. The monster is several feet long, fierce and fierce, with eyes like bronze mirrors and mouth like a blood dish, and it comes and goes like the wind. Animals live in the deep sea in 2008. They come out for food every night in the twelfth lunar month, endangering crops and preying on livestock and villagers. The crow won't subside until dawn.

Therefore, every year on New Year's Eve, the villagers will take the young and old to the mountains to avoid disasters, year after year, and it is no exception. One year on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, an old beggar came to the village. Only a kind old woman cooked food for the old man and said to him, "It's the year of the animal." Come with me to avoid disaster after eating. ? But the old man didn't seem to listen to the advice. He raved: Only Nian beast is afraid of me, and I have never been afraid of Nian beast. ? Seeing that persuasion was useless, the old woman left the old man and went up the mountain alone. The old man lives in his grandmother's house.

In the middle of the night, Nian beast flew out of the sea and broke into the village. I saw red paper on grandma's door, and the lights in the room were dazzling. Nian beast stepped back and hesitated for a moment. Nian beast screamed furiously and rushed to grandma's house. Near the door, there was a sudden bang of burning bamboo in the house. The explosion scared Nian beast to retreat and never came again. The next day, the villagers returned from refuge and found the old man safe and sound. The grandmother immediately told the villagers the story of begging for the old man. Since then, every year on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the villagers have pasted red paper, burned bamboo and lit lamps until dawn.

3. Folk proverbs and allusions: Since ancient times, people have had the custom of lighting virtual lights, and there is also a saying that New Year's Eve is brightly lit, in order to drive away poverty and darkness and illuminate the future of the coming year.

In addition, Local Records records that on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts, which is called "sending New Year's Eve"? ; Wine and food invite each other. Is this called another year? ; Young and old get together to drink and wish the whole thing a complete success. Is this called dividing the year? ; Everyone stayed up all night, waiting for dawn, and was called Shounian? . Even two years old one night, five classes for two days? On New Year's Eve, the whole family sat around the fire, lit candles or oil lamps and stayed up all night to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Bright lights symbolize driving away all evil diseases and epidemics, and look forward to good luck in the new year!

Summary: New Year's Eve, brightly lit, is people's longing for a better life and full of expectations for the new year in the future.

By contrast, what do you think?

All the lights should be turned on on New Year's Eve. I hope this year will be bright and bright, without darkness. This pressure has gradually disappeared.

We used to attach great importance to it, and we were not allowed to sweep it away after burying it for 30 nights, for fear of sweeping away part of its wealth. Even if jiaozi cooked it, we were not allowed to say it was broken? Children say that jiaozi is broken, and it is unlucky for children to set off firecrackers and break their clothes. Practically speaking, these are superstitions. We can do it or ignore it, and we will be fine.

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Every Chinese son and daughter attaches great importance to it. After this festival, there are many customs in ancient times. With the progress of the times, not many people pay attention to it. It's easy to say how to spend the Spring Festival now. Many only children are working hard outside, and the old people are looking forward to reunion. At the same time, they don't want to help their parents do too much housework, but they don't want mobile phones to be more important than talking to the elderly. The most important thing to pay attention to during the Spring Festival is to put down your mobile phone and chat with your parents.

In fact, if you have read the primary school textbooks, almost everyone knows this problem, because there is a story written in the primary school textbooks: According to legend, a long time ago, there was a year? Our monster, this monster, will come to the village to catch people to eat on New Year's Eve, so every New Year's Eve, people will run to the mountains to avoid this monster. One year, a master came to the village and told everyone to deal with the Chinese New Year. Beast method: candles are lit in every room at night, door gods and red couplets are posted on the doors, and red lanterns are hung on the doors.

New Year's Eve, at? The beast broke into the village and saw lights on in every room. Red lanterns and red couplets are hung in front of the door. He was very scared and ran away. He is afraid of light.

Therefore, in order to drive away Nian animals, lights are lit every New Year's Eve.

In fact, on New Year's Eve, in order to welcome the New Year, or in some places, there is a custom of keeping the old age, so the lights are on until dawn.

We have a saying here: 30-night lamp, 15-yuan midnight snack fire? This is a custom handed down from ancient times, and these two nights must be brightly lit. Because according to the usual practice, on the 30th, after the New Year's Eve dinner, we will go to worship our ancestors and pay a visit? Going home during the Chinese New Year, I have been burning incense and paper money at home until the third day, called to send new year's goods, ancestors? At home until noon on the fifteenth day of the first month, it is for ancestors to eat. Is it for the ancestors? Going home, this day is also a grave-sweeping day to worship ancestors. So, on the 30th and 5th day 15, the lights were on until dawn, just to let the ancestors? Have a bright Spring Festival at home comfortably, so as to protect the happiness and well-being of future generations at home.