1. 春节
Chinese New
Year

3. FIRE CRACKERS
Burning fireworks is the most typical
custom on the Spring Festival. And there
is a legend about it. Traced back to
thousands of years ago, there was a
ferocious monster called “nian”. It lived
deep at the bottom of the sea all the
year round and climbed up to the shore
only on New Year’s Eve to devour the
cattle and kill people’s lives.

4. Villagers were afraid of it so much
that they always escaped from their
homes on that day and couldn’t enjoy
New Year. One day a man thought of
an idea that he burnt a pile of
bamboo, the exploding sound of
which scared the monster “nian” so
much and droved it away, and it dared
not come back again.

5. From then on, people began to
burn fireworks on the Spring
Festival Eve and this turned to be a
kind of entertainment.

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