virgin什么意思春节的来历(英文版)

2021年1月26日发(作者：滤波器英文)
春节的来历（英文版）



the origin of chinese new year


中国春节的来历



the chinese new year is now popularly known as the spring
festival because it starts from the begining of spring (the first of
the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of nature). its
origin is too old to be traced. several explanations are hanging
around. all agree, however, that the word nian, which in modern
chinese solely means
beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning
of a new year.


one legend goes that the beast nian had a very big mouth that
would swallow a great many people with one bite. people were very
scared. one day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue
nian. to nian he said,
you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who
are by no means of your worthy opponents?
the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their
domestic animals from time to time.


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.