What is the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. The dates of Lunar New Year and New Year's Eve are generally set on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and the traditional "Chinese New Year" is set on the first day of the first month. The Spring Festival is a festival for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and for family reunion. During the Spring Festival, people will return to their homes not far from Wan Li to welcome the New Year. There is a legend about the Spring Festival: According to legend, in ancient China, there was a monster named Nian, who looked fierce and extremely evil. I have lived in the mountains for many years, and I only go down to devour livestock on New Year's Eve every year, which hurts people's lives. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, every family leaves home to avoid the harm of Nian beast, which is called "China New Year". On New Year's Eve, people are helping the old and taking the young into the mountains to take refuge, and an old beggar comes from outside the village. Some people sealed windows and locked doors, others packed their bags, and there was a panic everywhere. No one cares about the begging old man. Only an old woman in the village east wrapped up jiaozi, invited the old man to dinner, and urged him to hurry up the mountain to avoid Nian beast. In order to repay the kindness of the old woman, the old man told her that she was most afraid of red, fire and explosion every year, and asked her to put on red clothes, put red paper on the door, light red candles and burn bamboo in the yard to explode. At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. He found the village brightly lit, his eyes were too red to open, and he heard loud firecrackers coming from someone's house, so he ran away trembling all over. Since then, people have known the way to drive away the New Year. Every New Year's Eve, every family sticks red couplets and sets off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day of the lunar new year, we will go to relatives and friends to congratulate each other and to congratulate each other on surviving the ravages of Nian beast. Later, this custom spread more and more widely and became the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China. This is the legend about the New Year. Since then, people will hang red lanterns, paste couplets, eat jiaozi and set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, which has become an annual custom. In people's minds, the Spring Festival is not only an activity to drive away the New Year, but also a better reunion with family. In the past year, family members may rarely meet, but the Spring Festival is an opportunity for children and their families thousands of miles away to go back to their hometown and celebrate our achievements this year, get rid of bad luck and welcome the New Year.