Chapter 372 Inspiration from the New Year
As for the African black uncles who were almost squeezed out by Britain, the three Indians, and even the people of my Big Rabbit Country, they still yearn for their lives and think that they are good everywhere, the system is good, the welfare is good, and in short, all kinds of good...
This kind of topic is too deep and too complicated. I won’t talk about it anymore and I will go far.
Let’s talk about Wang Meng’s current status and capital, so she hopes that through her own leadership, she can develop domestic comics, films and other industries.
Maybe this is the pursuit of successful people.
Therefore, after Wang Zhiwei said that his comics industry led the domestic comics industry, Wang Meng was very happy and agreed. Even Wang Zhiwei felt proud.
Wang Meng knew that Marvel had taken off and no longer needed his own guidance.
Wang Meng gave Marvel an idea, and now this idea has become a thriving tree. Judging from the health of the tree, it is obvious that it can grow into a towering tree.
Therefore, Wang Meng felt that the "fairy" should continue to improve.
Question: "Dad, our comics are also the leader in China. I think it is not only unsatisfactory, but also requires pioneering spirit. The superhero series led by Marseille will not stop for 20 years. However, we cannot walk on one leg, and I think we can continue to develop a new one."
"Oh," Wang Zhiwei was stunned and asked, "What do you think?"
Not only Wang Zhiwei, but also Lu Man and the absent-minded Wang Tian were excitedly looking at Wang Meng.
Wang Meng smiled and said, "So, today is New Year's Eve. I will tell you a story about the 'New Year'..."
——In ancient times, there was a vicious beast with four corners and four legs. In the winter, due to heavy snow, there was shortage of food and often went to nearby villages to find food. Because of its huge body, bad temper and extremely ferociousness, it brought great disasters to the villagers. Every year at the end of the twelfth lunar month, people would organize their clothes to help the elderly and young, and go to nearby bamboo forests to avoid the New Year.
This year, people in the village met a child about seven or eight years old while packing their things and running away. They fell hungry on the side of the road. A kind old woman woke up the child and asked the child to go up the mountain to hide from evil beasts. Ninth, the smart child and the old woman followed the people in the village to the bamboo forest behind the village.
Because the winter is cold in the bamboo forest, everyone is so cold that they cut bamboos and built houses to keep warm. The child rescued by the old lady asked everyone curiously: "Our bamboo forest is so close to the village, aren't you afraid of coming here in the New Year?"
An old man replied to him: "When I was young, I came here with my fellow villagers to hide from the New Year. During the snowy years, it was so cold that it chased me because I was so hungry. But every time it saw the fellow villagers cut bamboo in this bamboo forest, they hurriedly left."
The child thought about it and told everyone: "I have a way to get rid of the 'year' so that everyone will not have to come out and escape every twelfth lunar month from now on."
Everyone was very happy after hearing this and asked what to do? This smart child told everyone: "Cut more bamboo joints and bring them, and everyone in the village can go home tonight! Just hang a piece of red cloth outside the doors of your houses, and it will be great. You will never come again after dawn tomorrow."
The villagers listened to the child's words half-believingly, and the old men in the village took them back to their homes.
It was soon night. The villagers were afraid that "New Year" would come, so they came to the open space in the middle of the village, guarding some broken bamboo joints brought back from the bamboo forest. The weather was cold and everyone lit the fire to keep warm, and when they were hungry, they took some food out... In the middle of the night, they heard a roar that shook the sky, and everyone shrank in fear.
At this time, the smart child suddenly stood up and told everyone, "I'll attract him, and then everyone threw the broken bamboo joints we had guarded all night in the fire."
Before the kind-hearted old woman reached out to pull her, the child had already arrived at the entrance of the village. The child saw Nian breaking into the village and destroying a lot of things, so he shouted loudly: "You come every year, which makes the people unable to live and work in peace. Today I must give you some excellence!!"
"Nian" heard the child's cry and followed the sound, but it did not dare to enter when it saw red strips of cloth hanging on the doors and walls of every house. So it followed the child's voice and endured the hungry belly to the open space in the middle of the village.
At this time, the child said loudly: "Friends, throw broken bamboo joints into the fire!!"
But everyone was afraid that they had already stood there and stayed up. At this moment, "Nian" picked up the child with his horn and threw it heavily on the ground. The villagers reacted when they heard the sound of the child falling to the ground and threw bamboo joints into the fire. Because it was cut shortly after, the wet bamboo joints burst into flames and crackled!
"Nian" heard the sound and turned around and did not damage the things in the village anymore.
It was dawn, and the sound of "Nian" was frightened away by the sound of the bamboo joints thrown into the fire that people burst. The residents' home was saved because of the red strips hanging in front of the door. Although the child was seriously injured, he had amazing healing ability and came alive on the verge of death. People were happy. Later, people realized that the child was the reincarnation of the gods in the sky. This day was the first day of the first lunar month.
Because "Nian" did not die, every year on the 3rd day of the twelfth lunar month, everyone waited for the broken bamboo joints and removed the monster at night. New Year's Eve came from this. But year after year, no one had seen "Nian" again. All of them were firecrackers set off to prevent the arrival of "Nian" and the red cloth strips hanging in front of the door.
However, it left us with this legend and the custom of celebrating the New Year: on the night of the 3rd day of the twelfth lunar month, everyone gathered together to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, waited for the bells of New Year's Eve together, set off firecrackers, posted door couplets, and waited until dawn to visit each other's neighbors to give greetings and blessings.
On the morning of the first day of the New Year, the villagers visited each other to see if they were injured and said some auspicious and polite words, hoping that the "Year of the Year" will not come again in the next twelfth lunar month...
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Chapter completed!