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The experience new year is the day which the Chinese nationality most takes, the Spring Festival origin, is comes from familiar-sounding can detailed “the year beastly story”.In the fable “the year” is one kind giant and the fierceness manticore, only is originally take the domestic animal as the food, when afterwards in the winter food short, starts to eat the human, the common people then decided thinks of a way expels it.After the long time observation, discovered this first year beast was afraid three type things, one was red, two was the sound, three was the flame, therefore the human has then tried to find a solution.In the winter one, each and every family all hangs up the red peach plank in the gate, strikes the appliance to make the very big sound, and ignites the flaming fire in the entrance.

The Spring Festival is the day that the Chinese nationality pays attention to most, the origin of the Spring Festival, come from ' the annual beast's story ' that what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail. ' annual ' in the legend it is a kind of enormous and violent strange beast, originally just consumed livestock, when later on food shortage of winter, begin to eat to people, common people decide to try to drive it away.

Through the long-time observation, find the beast fears three kinds of things in the first year, first, red, second, the sound, third, flame, then people think of a method. Arrive winter, every household hang up getting red peach plank at door, beat utensil send out heavy noise very, and light the fire ragingly at the gate. At night, in that year when the beast was about to look for food, find door, every family of household have getting red and flame, hear noisy sound impressively, the ones that are frightened so that the head does not go back run away to the remote mountains.

For prevent from annual to is it do mischief to come again, everybody keeps watch at night all night like this, early in the next day, escape people is it congratulate on to say each othering happy of misfortune, and celebrated without restraint. The red Spring Festival couplet is stuck on the door, the fireworks, custom of staying up late of all night on New Year's Eve etc. put while celebrating the New Year now, it is said that comes through this legend

Ancient there is by ' standing grain ' been word not ' annual ' and ' a thousand ' word of two pieces make up, mean the five cereals are sumptuous, the meaning with good harvest, peasants examine the harvest of passing year when years old is late, also full of expecting to the following one years, record according to the Chinese historical document, begin since Yao Shun times, people celebrate the folklore which has a bumper harvest, meets new years old in New Year, became a set traditional festival gradually later.

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