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What Is The Spring Festival Essay

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Title: Spring Festival. Names: Sherry, Leila, Angel, Delia, Raymond, Simon, Cristiano. Date: on May twenty-third 2017. Spring Festival is Chinese traditional festival, and it is also a national festival. It started in the Shang Dynasty. Spring Festival has a history of more than 4000 years. There are some stories about the origin of Spring Festival, the most famous legend is the Nian beast. We have lots of customs about Spring Festival, such as eating dumplings, handing out red envelopes, wearing new clothes, and so on. Spring Festival is different from the past and present, but it is also one of the most important festival in China, and there are many ways to celebrate it. Nowadays, some people don’t think highly of Spring Festival, so we should protect this festival. …show more content…

It also is a festival which in China is particular, the source of Spring Festival has a legend, there was a griffin named “Nian” in archaic China. Its head with tentacles, it looked very ferocious. “Nian” was always living in the sea, when it’s time to New Year’s Eve. It climed to the shoreside. It ate domestic animals and hurt people, so people ran away at Spring Festival to avoid it. One year, the village came an old pauper. During this time, villagers were ready to run away, only an old woman gave him some food. The pauper said if she could leave him one night, he would expel the griffin. At midnight, the griffin found it looked different this year. Every family put red pasters, the houses looked candlelight. It felt scared, then it ran away and shouted loudly, so there was a saying “celebrating the New Year” that is Spring Festival. Spring festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese festival. It is often called the Lunar New Year, especially by people in mainland China and Taiwan.

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