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That's why Chuxi came into being. Nian was a demon in the legend, who was scared off by fireworks and red New Year scrolls.

(“年”是传说里的怪兽，它害怕烟火和红色的春联。所以人们赶走“年”的这一天也被称为“过年”或“除夕”)。

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Before the Spring Festival, people clean their houses, put red couplets on their gates, and set off firecrackers, according to fairy tales, for driving a demon named Nian away.

春节前，人们打扫屋子、在大门上贴大红对联、放鞭炮。据传说，这样做是为了驱赶一个叫“年”的魔鬼。

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The 5-foot-tall Mehta painting, "Mahisasura, " inspired by a 5th-century Hindu myth, was at once violent and sexual, divine and mortal, vividly depicting an orange-and-black warrior goddess wrapping a red-and-gray buffalo demon in her lethal embrace.

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Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is something of a folkloric hybrid: half Little Red Riding Hood, half Japanese myth, the game is a lovely, highly-stylized action-RPG from developer American McGee and Spicy Horse Games.

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