春节的来历英文版

The Spring Festival, spring festival:

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The Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is the lunar Suishou, another name is have the Spring Festival, is China 's biggest, most popular, the most important one of the oldest traditional festivals, is also the Chinese unique festivals. The Chinese civilization is the most concentrated expression. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to the present day. The Spring Festival generally refers to new year's Eve and lunar January first. But in the folk, the Spring Festival is a traditional sense from the twelfth lunar month offering or twenty-three or twenty-four people, all the way to the lunar January fifteen, with new year's Eve and lunar January first climax. How to celebrate this holiday, in a history of thousands of years of development, formed a few relatively fixed customs, there are many also legend has. In the traditional Chinese New Year holiday period, and most of China's Han ethnic minorities have to be held in a variety of celebration activities, these activities are to worship deities, worshiping ancestors, Chujiubuxin, Ying Fuk Jubilee then, pray for good harvest as the main content. Rich and colorful activities, with strong ethnic characteristics. In May 20, 2006, the "Spring Festival" custom is approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

The Spring Festival is a kind of legend, there is a Chinese ancient times called" years" of the monster, the first long tentacles, savage. " Year" for many years hiding the sea, only to climb up the shore every new year's Eve, devouring livestock harm human life. Therefore, every new year's Eve that day, village village stockaded village of help the aged and the young people fled to the mountains, to avoid " ( reprinted from the first of http: / / , please keep this marker. ) "Beast. One new year's Eve, from the village outside a begging for the elderly. The villagers scene of a panic rush, village head only an old lady to the elderly more food, and urged him to speed up the mountain to escape the" year" beast, the old man smiled stroking beard:" mother-in-law if I stay at home one night, I put the ' year ' removed the animal." The old woman still continue to persuade, begging people smiling without a word. At midnight," " beast into the village. It is found that the village atmosphere, unlike previous: village head 's wife, door stickers red paper, indoor lit candles. " Year" monster tremble, strange called. Almost at the entrance, to the hospital from a sudden" bang bang bang bang" sound of bombing," years" shuddered, didn't dare to move forward. Originally," years" fear, red flames. At that time, the mother-in-law's family is big, wearing only a hospital Dahongpao elderly laughter. " Year" be frightened and change color, limped ran. The very next day is lunar January day, people who sought refuge back safe and sound very surprised to see the village. At this time, old woman to see light suddenly, hastened to tell the folks begging people promise. It soon