Spring Festival is the most important festival in China In the evening before the Spring Festival ，families get together and have a big meal In many places people like to set off firecrackers Dumplings are the most traditional food Children like the festival very much ，because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes They can also get some money from their This money is given to children for good luck People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune
Spring Festival is important festival in CBefore the Spring Festival，people usually clean and decorate their They also buy some food and In the evening before the Spring FMy family are eat meal Dumplings are the most traditional food in the evening before theSpring FI like Spring Festival very much，because I can eat delicious food and wear beautiful new What's more， I can get some money form my I can use these money buy some I like the Spring Festival very 春节是中国重要的节日。春节前，人们通常打扫和装饰他们的房子。他们也买一些食物和鲜花。在春节之前的那个晚上。我的家庭是吃一起用餐。饺子是最传统的食物theSpring节日前一日的晚上。我非常喜欢春节，因为我可以吃美味的食物和穿漂亮的新衣服。更重要的是，我能得到一些钱从我的父母。我可以用这些钱买一些书。我非常喜欢春节
Today is an annual Chinese New Year， the first day of the new year，the traditional festival of CAt this day， everyone has a happy reunion ， the families round together to eat regiment rice for year， is really a happy Say for us， this festival is very happy， having a lot of delicious outside， can also take New Year's Money to buy the thing that oneself wants to buy for a long 今天是一年一度的春节，也就是新年的第一天，中国的传统节日。在这一天，大家欢聚一堂，一家人围在一起吃团年饭，真是一件幸福的事情。对于我们来说，这一个节日是十分快乐的，有很多好吃的之外，还可以拿压岁钱去买自己很久想买的东西。
Spring FestivalSpring Festival is the most important festival in China In the evening before the Spring Festival ，families get together and have a big meal In many places people like to set off firecrackers Dumplings are the most traditional food Children like the festival very much ，because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes They can also get some money from their This money is given to children for good luck People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune
The Origin of Chinese New Year The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature) Its origin is too old to be Several explanations are hanging All agree， however， that the word Nian， which in modern Chinese solely means "year"， was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one People were very One day， an old man came to their rescue， offering to subdue N To Nian he said， "I hear say that you are very capable， but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" So， it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to After that， the old man disappeared riding the beast N He turned out to be an immortal Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests， people begin to enjoy their peaceful Before the old man left， he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again， because red is the color the beast feared the From then on， the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to The term "Guo Nian"， which may mean "Survive the Nian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe" The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still However， people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this， except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the
