The last dragon ever

Chapter 182 The myth about "year"
On Yang Luyun's wrist, she also received "blessings" from many people in the tribe. In the end, she smiled and said: "If you send it again, I can't hold my wrist anymore. Even if it is given to the people around you, it is also a gift to me." , Blessings to the Dragon God."

In this way, everyone gave up and gave the extra preparations to those around them.

So it shouldn't be surprising to see someone wearing extra red twine around their wrists.

She also told everyone the story of "New Year's Eve".

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a ferocious monster called "Nian", which lived in the deep sea all year round, but at the turn of the new year, it came out to destroy crops, harm people and animals, and the people complained.

Once it ran to the village to do evil again, and was scared away by the bright red clothes hanging at the door of a house.When I got to another place, I was frightened by the lights, fire and sound again.So people grasped "Nian"'s weakness of being afraid of sound, red, and fire.

At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, people stick red couplets, set off firecrackers, and hang red lights at the door of their homes. Harm humans and animals.

Yang Luyun smiled and said: "Actually, no matter how terrifying monsters are, they all have weaknesses. Even ordinary people can defeat them as long as they control their weaknesses. So if you really encounter something terrifying in the future, don't surrender at the beginning. Now, you can show your weakness first, protect yourself, and then find a way to find its weakness, so that you can deal with it..."

Well, telling a story can also tell a great truth, and she really convinced her.

When ancient people heard this story, they naturally had many questions in their heads, especially children, they would ask why they had never heard of "Nian"?In the past, they didn't pass the New Year's Eve, so why didn't the monster appear?Did the gods in the sky drive it away?

"Pfft—yes, it has already been chased away. The first year after the Chinese New Year is called New Year's Day. On this day, relatives and friends will visit each other to congratulate that they have not been harmed by monsters. Get up tomorrow morning, and everyone can say hello to the next door. Neighbor’s New Year’s greetings... Generally speaking, on the first day of the new year, no matter who you meet, you can say auspicious words, for example, Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai, Happy New Year, etc..."

After talking about it, she laughed and said, "By the way, apart from this, if a child pays New Year's greetings to an elder, they will usually receive a red envelope. A piece of red paper, made into a square shape, stuffed with a little contribution Value, for children, one is to give the child a "New Year's Eve" so that he can grow up safely, and the other is to hope that the child can have a happy and peaceful year."

The child's eyes lit up immediately: "Mom, mom, will you give us red envelopes next year?" The red envelopes contain contribution values, which can be exchanged for things.

Although children usually help with work, they are children after all, and their main task is to study, so they don't have much contribution value.In addition to food and clothes, the contribution value of parents also needs to be exchanged for other things in the house, which are rarely distributed to children.

Although the children don't know what they want to exchange for their contribution points, but seeing that adults have them, they also have some desires in their hearts.

Yang Luyun went on to say: "Giving more contribution value and giving less has the same meaning. Just give one or two. Don't give too much. If there is too much, it will not be a blessing, and it may damage the blessing of the children."

She doesn't want people in the future to regard the contribution value in the red envelope as something to "show off" and "comparison with each other", that is not her original intention.She wanted to bring back the tradition, but she didn't want to bring those bad habits along with her.

(End of this chapter)