Thirty, that is, "New Year's Eve". This day is the day for people to eat, drink, play, and enjoy. The northern people make dumplings, and the southerners make the rice cakes. Boiled dumplings, rice cake like "silver piece" sound like "high", is the auspicious omen.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family together to eat "reunion   dinner", there is one family reunion   festival. Eat a meal on the table, "fish" is not active, because the fish representing the "rich" and "symbol of the coming year, May there be surpluses every year." "wealth and happiness", it belongs to a kind of decoration, is untouchable.

There is a legend about the origin of the year. It is said that in ancient times our ancestors had been threatened by a most ferocious beast. This beast is called "year", it hunt animals for food, in the winter, the lack of food, but also broke into the village, hunting and livestock, people in a constant state of anxiety. People have struggled with "year" for many years. People have found that they are afraid of three kinds of things, red color, fire and noise. So in winter people in peach zigumen hang Confidante color, in front of the fire, the night all night without sleep, hammering. That night, the "year" broke into the village, see families have red light and heard the noise, scared back to the mountains, no longer afraid to come out. Last night, people greetings, all decorated, drinking banquet to celebrate the victory.

年三十，也就是"除夕"。這天，是人們吃、喝、玩、樂的日子。北方人包餃子，南方人做年糕。水餃形似"元寶"，年糕音似"年高"，都是吉祥如意的好兆頭。

除夕之夜，全家人在一起吃"團年飯"，有一家人團聚過年的味道。吃團年飯時，桌上的"魚"是不能動的，因為這魚代表"富裕"和"年年有余"，象征來年的"財富與幸運"，它屬于一種裝飾，是碰不得的。

關于年的由來，還有一個傳說。相傳在遠古時候，我們的祖先曾遭受一種最兇猛的野獸的威脅。這種猛獸叫"年"，它捕百獸為食，到了冬天，山中食物缺乏時，還會闖入村莊，獵食人和牲畜，百姓惶惶不可終日。人和"年"斗爭了很多年，人們發(fā)現，年怕三種東西，紅顏色、火光、響聲。于是在冬天人們在自家門上掛上紅顏色的桃木板，門口燒火堆，夜里通宵不睡，敲敲打打。這天夜里，"年"闖進村莊，見到家家有紅色和火光，聽見震天的響聲，嚇得跑回深山，再也不敢出來。夜過去了，人們互相祝賀道喜，大家張燈結彩，飲酒擺宴，慶祝勝利。

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