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Customs
Origin Brief introduction
The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar.
Mid-Autumn Day（中秋节） The Double Ninth Festival（重阳节） Winter solstice （冬至）
Spring Festival Introduction
Customs
Paste Spring Festival Couplets 贴春联 New Year paintings 年画 Paper-cuts 剪纸 Reunion dinner of the New year eve 年夜饭 The Spring Festival Gala 春节联欢晚会 Pay New Year‘s call 拜年 Lion Dance and Dragon Dance 舞龙 舞狮
Origin
Introduction
Historical material about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many different versions, four influential: the first is that the summer solstice customs; The second is that Dragon Boat Festival from the Xia and Shang Dynasties that derived from the ancient times Wuyue national dragon totem worship; Third, the Dragon Boat Festival and the ancient "Bad Moon" and "evil day" linked; final say, most accepted view that the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
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Description
Summary
It is customary for people to stay up late on New Year's Eve, known as "nian gao", to welcome the new year.
Description
Staying up late on New Year's Eve is a way to show respect to the new year and to avoid bad luck. People usually stay up late to watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV or have family gatherings, playing cards or board games. This practice is also known as "nian gao".
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Preparation before the Spring Festival
Sweeping Dust to Get Rid of Bad Luck: Before the Spring Festival, people traditionally clean their houses to sweep away any bad luck and make way for incoming good luck. This practice is known as "sweeping dust".
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(Complete version) Spring Festival customs in English
Summary
It is customary for people to stay up late on New Year's Eve, known as "nian gao", to welcome the new year.
Description
Staying up late on New Year's Eve is a way to show respect to the new year and to avoid bad luck. People usually stay up late to watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV or have family gatherings, playing cards or board games. This practice is also known as "nian gao".
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Preparation before the Spring Festival
Sweeping Dust to Get Rid of Bad Luck: Before the Spring Festival, people traditionally clean their houses to sweep away any bad luck and make way for incoming good luck. This practice is known as "sweeping dust".
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(Complete version) Spring Festival customs in English
春节英文介绍ppt课件
Juniors will greet seniors, wishing them health and longevity, while seniors will give juniors some gift money as a wish for their safety in the coming Nhomakorabeayear.
In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu （福）”on walls or doors. “Fu” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu” means "fu" arrive in Chinese.
Spring Festival traditional food
With the development of mobile communication, more and more people are using instant messengers such as QQ, WeChat, microblog and so on to express their good wishes to relatives or friends who are far awar. A lot of interesting emoji（表情包） are created to make the atmosphere active.
Also, pictures of the gods of doors will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits.
In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu （福）”on walls or doors. “Fu” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu” means "fu" arrive in Chinese.
Spring Festival traditional food
With the development of mobile communication, more and more people are using instant messengers such as QQ, WeChat, microblog and so on to express their good wishes to relatives or friends who are far awar. A lot of interesting emoji（表情包） are created to make the atmosphere active.
Also, pictures of the gods of doors will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits.
春节介绍 英文版.ppt
The Spring Fest呀 阿宁呀
One. Spring Festival origin Two. Spring Festival customs
One. Spring Festival origin
The Spring Festival is the most popular traditional festival in China. A long time ago, there lived an ancient monster called “Nian”.It deep in the seabed, every years to New Year's eve just climbed out, swallowed cattle and damaged lives. So on this day people will flee to the mountains to avoid years of harm. But there was an old beggar on New Year's eve,the people in the village were too busy to escape. Only an old women gave him food and urged him to avoid the“Nian”. The old man said with smile: " if let me stay at home all night, and I'll get it away."
In the past， the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with
a brush or asked others to do for them， while nowadays, it is
One. Spring Festival origin Two. Spring Festival customs
One. Spring Festival origin
The Spring Festival is the most popular traditional festival in China. A long time ago, there lived an ancient monster called “Nian”.It deep in the seabed, every years to New Year's eve just climbed out, swallowed cattle and damaged lives. So on this day people will flee to the mountains to avoid years of harm. But there was an old beggar on New Year's eve,the people in the village were too busy to escape. Only an old women gave him food and urged him to avoid the“Nian”. The old man said with smile: " if let me stay at home all night, and I'll get it away."
In the past， the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with
a brush or asked others to do for them， while nowadays, it is
Spring-Festival春节英文介绍(共32张)
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On the eve of the Spring Festival,
a get-together banquet is a must, and the most popular food is Jiaozi, which is supposed to bring good fort 尘 按民间的说法：因
“尘”与“陈”谐音， 新春扫尘有“除陈布新” 的涵义，其用意是要把 一切穷运、晦气统统扫 出门。 •贴 春 联
春联也叫门对、春贴、 对联、对子、桃符等，它 以工整、对偶、简洁、精 巧的文字描绘时代背景， 抒发美好愿望，是我国特 有的文学形式。
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[知识储备: 春节的有关 词汇] (yǒuguān)
▪ 辞旧岁
▪ bid farewell to the old year 扫房
▪ spring cleaning; general housecleaning
▪ 年糕 ▪ Nian-gao; rice cake; New Year cake
▪ traditional opera 杂耍
▪ variety show
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[知识储备: 春节的有关 词汇] (yǒuguān)
▪ 灯谜 ▪ riddles written on lanterns
▪ 灯会
▪ exhibit of lanterns ▪ 守岁
▪ staying-up
▪ 拜年 ▪ pay New Year’s call; give New Year’s greetings;
New Year’s visit
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[知识储备: 春节 的有关词汇] (Chūn Jié)
On the eve of the Spring Festival,
a get-together banquet is a must, and the most popular food is Jiaozi, which is supposed to bring good fort 尘 按民间的说法：因
“尘”与“陈”谐音， 新春扫尘有“除陈布新” 的涵义，其用意是要把 一切穷运、晦气统统扫 出门。 •贴 春 联
春联也叫门对、春贴、 对联、对子、桃符等，它 以工整、对偶、简洁、精 巧的文字描绘时代背景， 抒发美好愿望，是我国特 有的文学形式。
第19页，共32页。
第13页，共32页。
[知识储备: 春节的有关 词汇] (yǒuguān)
▪ 辞旧岁
▪ bid farewell to the old year 扫房
▪ spring cleaning; general housecleaning
▪ 年糕 ▪ Nian-gao; rice cake; New Year cake
▪ traditional opera 杂耍
▪ variety show
第11页，共32页。
[知识储备: 春节的有关 词汇] (yǒuguān)
▪ 灯谜 ▪ riddles written on lanterns
▪ 灯会
▪ exhibit of lanterns ▪ 守岁
▪ staying-up
▪ 拜年 ▪ pay New Year’s call; give New Year’s greetings;
New Year’s visit
第12页，共32页。
[知识储备: 春节 的有关词汇] (Chūn Jié)
(完整版)春节习俗英文PPT
Description
The meal typically consists of dishes that symbolize prosperity, health, and good luck. Dishes such as fish and spring rolls are common, as they represent abundance and the rolling forward of good fortune.
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Introduction to Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the most important traditional holiday in China, also known as Chinese New Year.
It is said that the origin of Spring Festival can be traced back to the "Nian" in ancient times, a monster that preyed on people during the winter solstice. To驱赶 "Nian", people would ignite fireworks, set off firecrackers, and wear red paper cutouts on their doors to scare it away.
(Complete version) Spring Festival customs in English
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contents
目录
Introduction to Spring FestivalSpring Festival customsTraditional activities during the Spring FestivalSymbolic items of the Spring FestivalThe Food Culture of Spring Festival
The meal typically consists of dishes that symbolize prosperity, health, and good luck. Dishes such as fish and spring rolls are common, as they represent abundance and the rolling forward of good fortune.
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Introduction to Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the most important traditional holiday in China, also known as Chinese New Year.
It is said that the origin of Spring Festival can be traced back to the "Nian" in ancient times, a monster that preyed on people during the winter solstice. To驱赶 "Nian", people would ignite fireworks, set off firecrackers, and wear red paper cutouts on their doors to scare it away.
(Complete version) Spring Festival customs in English
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contents
目录
Introduction to Spring FestivalSpring Festival customsTraditional activities during the Spring FestivalSymbolic items of the Spring FestivalThe Food Culture of Spring Festival
春节英语介绍 PPT
The Chinese New Year is traditional festival that China is rich with most the special features. It symbolizes the lunar calendar for old year to end. New year has already start. The Spring Festival on the lunar calendar January 1st.
paper-cuts 剪纸
守岁 watch night/stay up late on New Year's Eve
逛灯会 join the Lantern Festival
猜灯谜 guess Lantern riddles
放鞭炮 shoot off firecrackers
Welcome to celebrate the Spring Festival Day in China with us .
B What do we usually eat?
年夜饭 the dinner on New Year's Eve 饺子 dumplings 年糕 Spring festival cake 鱼 Fish 糖瓜 Sugared melonsΒιβλιοθήκη Family dinner
Dumplings Spring festival cake
Spring Festival
Contents
A. What is Spring Festival?
B. What do we usually eat? C. What do we usually do?
D. What do we usually play?
paper-cuts 剪纸
守岁 watch night/stay up late on New Year's Eve
逛灯会 join the Lantern Festival
猜灯谜 guess Lantern riddles
放鞭炮 shoot off firecrackers
Welcome to celebrate the Spring Festival Day in China with us .
B What do we usually eat?
年夜饭 the dinner on New Year's Eve 饺子 dumplings 年糕 Spring festival cake 鱼 Fish 糖瓜 Sugared melonsΒιβλιοθήκη Family dinner
Dumplings Spring festival cake
Spring Festival
Contents
A. What is Spring Festival?
B. What do we usually eat? C. What do we usually do?
D. What do we usually play?
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Dragon and lion dance
Summary
The dragon dance and lion dance are traditional performances that symbolize good luck and prosperity.
Description
During the Spring Festival, dragon dance and lion dance troupes perform in the streets, usually accompanied by drums and cymbals. These dances are believed to bring good luck and ward off evil spirits.
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目 录
• The Origin of Spring Festival • Spring Festival customs • Spring Festival activities • Spring Festival food • Spring Festival greetings
The Spring Festival is also a time for giving red envelopes, which are known as "hongbao" in Chinese. These are given by elders to children as a symbol of good luck and well wishes for the coming year.
春节英语PPT模版(中英文版)
还有些春节时吃的食物
春节祝词
春节祝福词
• May you come into a good fortune! • 祝你财源广进！ • A happy New Year to you. • 新年快乐。 • Everything goes well. • 吉祥如意。 • May all your wishes come true. • 心想事成。 • A good start in the New Year. • 新春大吉。
灯笼剪纸
Lantern 灯笼ຫໍສະໝຸດ Paper-cuts 剪纸
舞狮春晚
Spring Festival Gala
Reunion dinner
春节家人所吃的食物有：
• Braised fish in soy sauce、fried rice cake、
• longevity noodles 、dumplings、sweet and sour spare ribs and so on.（糖醋鱼、炸年糕、 长寿面、饺子、糖醋排骨等等）
春节
• 农历新年的来源,有根据,且丰富而多采多 姿的传说可追溯到几千年前；其中最有名 的就是「年兽」的传说.年兽是一个残忍 凶猛的野兽,古代人相信年兽在除夕夜时 会出来吃人.传说年兽极惧怕红色、火光 及吵杂的声音,人们就在门上贴著红纸条, 并整夜点著火炬、燃放炮烛,来避开「年 兽」.到了第二天一大早,恭喜之声不绝於 耳,空气中弥漫著打败年兽胜利与重生的 喜悦.
Spring Festival 春节英语
春 春 灯舞春 节 节 笼狮节 前 习 剪春祝 言 俗 纸晚词
春节前言
The Spring Festival
• The lunar calendar new year origin,has the basis,also is rich and picks the varied fable to be possible to trace to several millenniums before; Most is famous is "the year beast" fable."The year beast" is a cruel terrible wild animal,ancient times the person believed "year beast" when lunar New Year's Eve night can come out eats the person. The fable "the year beast" extremely fears red,the flame and quarrels the mixed sound,the people on paste the red paper in the gate,and selects the torch all night,is setting off the artillery candle,avoids "the year beast".To second day early morning,"has congratulated" the sound to the ear,in the air does not fill the air is defeating "the year beast" the victory and the rebirth joy.
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• 新年的准备工作在除夕前的七天就开 始了。根据中国农历，人们从腊月二 十四开始打扫屋子，二十六日杀猪宰 羊等等。每一天都有不同的活动，所 有这些活动将在正月十五结束。
Part 6 Customs and Practices 传统习俗
• Every family does a thorough house cleaning and purchases enough food, including fish, meat, roasted nuts and seeds, all kinds of candies and fruits, etc, for the festival period. Also, new clothes must be bought, especially for children.
Part 2 Festival Time 节日时长
• It comes on the first day of Chinese lunar calendar and lasts for almost half of a month. But in folk custom, this traditional holiday lasts from the 23rd day of the twelfth month to the 15th day of the first month (Lantern Festival) in the lunar calendar. Among these days, the New Year’s Eve and the first day of the New Year is the peak time. The exact days are different in every year according to the lunar calendar. • 春节从农历新年第一天开始，几乎要持续一整个月。但在民 间传统中，这一节日从腊月23日就开始了，直到正月十五 （元宵节）。在这些天里，除夕和春节第一天是最热闹的时 候。根据农历，每年除夕和春节所在的公历日期都有所不同。
春节英文课件The Spring Festival
The Legend of Nian Monster
The Legend of Nian Monster
• In ancient times, there was a monster called "Nian" ("year") that would come out to eat people and animals on the eve of last day of last lunar month. To avoid the monster's attack, people would flee to the depth of the mountains and call this day "Nian Guan" (meaning "the Pass of Nian"). On one of the eve, there came an old beggar in Peach Blossom Village, where an old lady gave him some food and asked him to hide himself in the mountain to avoid the monster Nian.
Dumpling （JIAOZI）
The Symbolic Meaning of JIAOZI
1. In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI”(交子) means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings.
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The significance of the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is a time for family reunions, as many Chinese people who have migrated to other parts of the country return home to celebrate with their families. It is also a time for giving red envelopes (hongbao) to children as a symbol of good luck and prosperity.
The origin of the Spring Festival is associated with the Chinese lunar calendar and the beginning of the Chinese New Year. It is a time for family reunions, giving red envelopes, and various other customs.
New Year greetings
Summary
Greetings are exchanged among family members and friends during the Spring Festival to wish each other good luck and happiness in tg off firecrackers
Summary
Firecrackers are set off during the Spring Festival to celebrate the new year and scare away bad luck.
春节英文介绍.ppt
Thank you
谢谢
On Lunar New Year's. When they meet their neighbours,relatives or friends,they'll say:”Happy New Year!” The New Year celebrating activitise will last about half a month, till the Lantern Festival.
couplets;
Spring Festival couplets
Customs
守岁：watch night/stay up late on New Year's Eve
逛灯会：join the Lantern Festival 猜灯谜：guess Lantern riddles 吃汤圆：eat rice dumplings 放鞭炮：to set off firecrackers; to shoot
off firecrackers 中国结Chinese Knotting
paper-cuts
lantern
to set Biblioteka ff firecrackersTo shoot off firework
Chinese Knotting
WeChat and Alipay red packet
Writing 1. What is Spring Festivel 2. When is it come about 3. How we spend The Spring Festivel
Some kinds of dumplings
Family reunion dinner
英语介绍春节的PPT
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Spring Festival also called the lunar calendar. It is a ceremonious and noisiest ancient tradition festival in our country.
The Spring Festival, has a long history. Also has a lot of about its various legends
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春节介绍(全英文)PPT课件
➢ 多福多寿！ Live long and proper!
➢ 恭祝新年吉祥，幸福和欢乐与你同在。 Good health, good luck and much happiness throughout the year.
➢ 新年带给你和你所爱的人许多美好的事物和无尽的祝福！ Rich blessings for health and longevity is my special wish for you in the coming year
成功的基础在于好的学习习惯
The foundation of success lies in good habits
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谢谢大家
荣幸这一路，与你同行
It'S An Honor To Walk With You All The Way
讲师：XXXXXX XX年XX月XX日
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The traditional foods
dumplings
Tang-yuan
Nian-gao / chinese cake
fish
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Spring Festival couplets(春联)
Gelivable.
Eat well sleep well have fun day by day.
Study hard work hard make money more and more.
When they arrived in Bethlehem, all of the inns were full and they couldn't find any place to spend the night. To make matters worse, Mary started going into labor. In the end, a kind-hearted man let them stay in his stable with the donkeys and sheep. Jesus was born that night, and he had to sleep in a manger6 because there was no bed for him.
➢ 恭祝新年吉祥，幸福和欢乐与你同在。 Good health, good luck and much happiness throughout the year.
➢ 新年带给你和你所爱的人许多美好的事物和无尽的祝福！ Rich blessings for health and longevity is my special wish for you in the coming year
成功的基础在于好的学习习惯
The foundation of success lies in good habits
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谢谢大家
荣幸这一路，与你同行
It'S An Honor To Walk With You All The Way
讲师：XXXXXX XX年XX月XX日
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The traditional foods
dumplings
Tang-yuan
Nian-gao / chinese cake
fish
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Spring Festival couplets(春联)
Gelivable.
Eat well sleep well have fun day by day.
Study hard work hard make money more and more.
When they arrived in Bethlehem, all of the inns were full and they couldn't find any place to spend the night. To make matters worse, Mary started going into labor. In the end, a kind-hearted man let them stay in his stable with the donkeys and sheep. Jesus was born that night, and he had to sleep in a manger6 because there was no bed for him.
中国春节ppt英文版 Chinese New Year
▪ It’s a time of celebrating and thanksgiving for Chinese people.
The Origin of Chinese New Year
There are many legends and traditions about the origin of Chinese New Year.
▪ A dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese families.
Entertainment – firework & firecrackers
Lantern Festival
▪ The Lantern Festival is to be held on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year.
▪ The kids carry lanterns to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
And…
Welcome to Chinese Club
There is going to be a Chinese club in the future, everybody is welcome! We will let you know the time when it begins.☺
If you go to Chinatown in London next week, what do you
think you may find?
Lots of Chinese people?
Delicious Chinese food?
Taking photo with ‘scissor hand’?
The Origin of Chinese New Year
There are many legends and traditions about the origin of Chinese New Year.
▪ A dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese families.
Entertainment – firework & firecrackers
Lantern Festival
▪ The Lantern Festival is to be held on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year.
▪ The kids carry lanterns to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
And…
Welcome to Chinese Club
There is going to be a Chinese club in the future, everybody is welcome! We will let you know the time when it begins.☺
If you go to Chinatown in London next week, what do you
think you may find?
Lots of Chinese people?
Delicious Chinese food?
Taking photo with ‘scissor hand’?
《春节介绍英文版》PPT课件
1 The legend of “nian”
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Customs of the Spring Festival
3 Traditional food
4 Festival activites
5 Chinese zodiac
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The legend of “nian”
The legend of nian
According to legend, there was a man-eating wild monster "Nian" with an extremely large mouth, capable of swallowing several people in a single bite.
The legend of nian
Gift money
Sweeping the dust
“dust”in Chinese means old and past. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life.
Pasting Spring Couplets
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Customs of the Spring pring Festival
Sweeping the dust
Pasting “up-sided
Fu”
New year’s visit
Pasting Spring Couplets
Set off fireworks
Happy Lunar New year
The spring festival
It falls on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month and the celebration last from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month up to the 15th of the first lunar month next year.
春节英语介绍PPT
New Year's Visit and Gift Money(拜年和压岁钱 )
On the first day of the Chinese lunar year, everybody puts on their best clothes and pays formal calls on their relatives and friends, wishing them all the luck in the coming year. Juniors will greet seniors, wishing them health and longevity(长寿), while seniors will give juniors some gift money as a wish for their safety in the coming year.
批注本地保存成功开通会员云端永久保存去开通
The Spring Festival in Nanjing
The origin of the Lunar New Year
The origin of the Lunar New Year Festival can be traced back thousands of years, involving a series of colorful legends and traditions. One of the most famous legends is Nian. To keep Nian away, red-paper couplets are pasted on doors, torches are lit, and firecrackers are set off throughout the night, because Nian is said to fear the color red, the light of fire, and loud noises.
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• 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, "I hear say that 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?" So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and time to time.
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 "year", was originally the name of a monster 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, "I hear say that 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?" So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.
• 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, "I hear say that 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?" So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.
• 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 "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.