新年的由来(英文)

The lunar calendar new year is the day which the Chinese nationality most takes, the Spring Festival origin, is familiar-sounding comes from to be able detailed "the year beastly story", the speech said when the ancient times, a like lion body like ox's unicorn, named "the year beast", "the year beast" this is locked by the deity to the remote mountain, but the deity consented every year gives it a day-long freedom, a year 30 is late, "the year beast" walks to the folk disturbs in all directions. But when it walks hangs big scarlet cloth others to a household gate in front of, immediately the postscript fully dashes about wildly, the people discovered "the year beast" the fear flaming flame and sets off the firecrackers the great sound, thereupon then starts the new year's celebration to paste the red paper, hangs and burns custom and so on firecracker, but custom which lunar New Year's Day pays new year's call in, also represents was evading "the year beast" perhaps "wickedly transports" but mutually congratulates. The ancient "the year" the character is by "the standing grain" and "thousand" two characters compositions, meant the grain is sumptuous, crop good meaning, farmer when end of the year examines the passing year crop, also will fill the expectation to a future year, according to the Chinese history literature record, will start from the Yao and Shun time, the people will have in the new year celebrate the abundant harvest, greet new year-old the folk custom, afterwards gradually became the traditional holiday which decided.