After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.

     后来,老头骑着年兽消失了,临走告诉人们,用红色的纸把门和窗装饰起来,以防年兽回来,因为年兽很害怕红色.