中国春节的来历-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 "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. 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. From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive the Nian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration. 中国的新年是现在俗称春节，因为它从立春开始（二十四个节气的第一个节气）。它的起源太旧了，不可追溯。一些解释是挂在。不过，所有人都同意，这句话，这在现代汉语完全是“一年”，原本是一个怪物野兽的名字开始在人们的猎物前一个晚上开始的一个新的一年。 有一个传说，那兽年有一个非常大的嘴巴，一口吞了很多人。人们很害怕。有一天，一位老人来拯救他们，提供制服念。他说：“我听说你很能干，但是你能把其他的野兽吞到地球上，而不是那些没有你的对手的人吗？”所以，它吞下了很多在地球上的猎物，也骚扰人民和他们的家畜不时的野兽。 在那之后，老人消失骑兽年。他变成了一个不朽的神。现在，“年”已经过去了，其他野兽的猎物也被惊吓到森林，人们开始享受他们的和平生活。在老人离开之前，他曾告诉人们把红纸装饰他们的窗户和门在每年的年底吓跑年的情况下溜回来了，因为红色是颜色最害怕野兽。 从那时起，观察征服的传统是世代相传的。“过年”，这可能意味着“生存的年”成为今天“庆祝（新的）年”作为“国”，在中国有两个“通过”和“观察”的含义。把红色的纸和烧起来的爆竹来吓跑的习俗应该有一个机会去跑散了。不过，人们很早就忘记了他们为什么这样做，除了他们的颜色和声音增添了庆祝的兴奋。 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/5cf89918951ea76e58fafab069dc5022aaea46b0.html