Spring Festival originated from the legend of Nian beast in ancient China. It was most afraid of red, so later people wrote red couplets and set off red firecrackers on this day, and at the same time drove away Nian beast. This custom has been handed down and has become the most solemn festival now.
Spring Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. During the Spring Festival, the family sits at the dinner table and talks with each other, which is very lively.
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The Spring Festival is an evolution of the ancient New Year Beast legend in China, and every year at this time, it will be dispatched on time, injuring people’s lives. Therefore, in order to save their lives, people fled to a safe place in advance, and only returned after the Nian Beast left. Later, a wise man came to the village. He told the villagers that as long as he was willing to take him in for one night, he would have a way to drive away the Nian beast. As soon as he heard this, the villagers took the wise man in with a grain of salt.
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The wise man called in two villagers and assigned them tasks. One is responsible for luring Nian Beast, and the other is responsible for buying some red firecrackers and red couplets. Wait quietly on New Year’s Eve. Sure enough, as soon as the time came, the beast began to move out, but at this time it found that the atmosphere in the village was different from the past, everywhere was covered with red couplets, the villagers saw the beast coming, they lit firecrackers together, heard the constant sound of firecrackers, saw the eyeful of red. Year Beast Panic, it did not dare to advance to the village, shouted, and ran away.
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Later on the Spring Festival, the village no longer had the animal, and the villagers also kept this custom. So every year, every family will paste red couplets and set off firecrackers on the Spring
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In addition, the Spring Festival, also known as “new” or “festival”, “New Year”, etc. In modern terms, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, and generally does not end until at least the 15th day of the first month (Lantern Festival).In folk tradition, the Spring Festival refers to the festival from the Lama Festival or the 23rd or 24th of the Lama Yue and lasts until the 19th of the first month.
