ge2中国春节的来历-英文介绍

2021年1月26日发(作者：myr)
中国春节的来历
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英文介绍



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

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 are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of
prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your
worthy opponents?
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.