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Spring Festival is an ancient traditional cultural festival in China.

According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, with a long, pointed head and a ferocious face. I lived at the bottom of the sea for many years in. Every new year's eve, he climbed ashore to devour livestock and kill people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village help the elderly and take care of the young, and flee to the mountains to avoid the injury of the year.

One year on New Year's Eve, people were busy packing their bags and fled to the mountains. At this time, an old man with white hair came to the east of the village. He told an old woman that as long as he stayed at her house for one night, he could drive away Nian beast. People don't believe it. The old woman advised him to go up the mountain to avoid. The old man insisted on staying. When they saw that he couldn't stay, they went up the mountain to hide.

When the beast was ready to break into the village and wreak havoc as usual, firecrackers suddenly sounded. Nian trembled and dared not go forward any more. It turns out that Nian beast is most afraid of red, fire and explosion. When Daimon Masaru opened it, he saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. The year of the beast was frightened to disgrace and fled in haste.

The next day, when people returned to the village from the depths of the mountains, they found the village safe and sound. It suddenly dawned on them that the white-haired old man was a fairy who helped everyone drive away the "Nian" beast, and people also found three magic weapons for the white-haired old man to drive away the "Nian" beast. From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, every family posted red couplets and set off firecrackers, and every family was brightly lit. This custom spread more and more widely and became the most solemn traditional festival in China.

Before the Spring Festival every year, people call the period from 23rd to 30th of the lunar calendar1February "off-year". On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together. There is a custom of eating jiaozi in the northern region, which symbolizes the reunion of acacia; At the same time, it means having sex at an older age. Eating rice cakes in the south symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year, step by step. In the evening 12, that is, just after the New Year, the first thing for every household is to set off firecrackers.

After the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Chinese New Year is really over.