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Chinese New Year Festival

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The origin of Chinese New Year festivals came from tales which started with an ancient beast called Nian. Nian is a lion-looking beast and is very large. At the start of New Year, Nian would eat villagers. The villagers would try protecting themselves by putting food in front of their house at the start of every year. They believed that after the Nian ate the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack any more people but they were wrong. One day, a god visited villagers in the village. God tell them that they need to put a red sticker on the wall and the doorways and hang the firecrackers around the village. The villagers did what the god tell him to. When it’s time for Nian to come out and eat, Nian shocked and scared from the red sticker and from the sound of crackling fireworks. This is because Nian is scared of red colour and the sound of fireworks. And so this is the start of Chinese New Year! …show more content…

Chinese New Year also have a lot of common names such as “Lunar New Year”, “New Year Festival”, and “Spring Festival”. …show more content…

There are 12 animal signs in the Zodiac: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. In 12 year-cycle each animal stand for each year which begin in every New Year’s Day. Each animal in the Zodiac all have different personality to it which connected to the people who is born in that year. Every year, Chinese New Year’s Start Date is different to the international calendar but it will always be in the period of January 21 to February

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