2017年春节英语手抄报资料+图片
导语：春节在我国算是最传统，也是最隆重的节日了，那这样的节日有什么传统的习俗呢?下面是小编分享的关于2017春节的手抄报设计内容，希望对大家有所帮助!
【2017春节手抄报设计内容】
The Origin of Chinese New Year
中国春节的来历
The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival becauseit starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms incoodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be ral explanations are hanging around. All aGREe, however, that the word Nian,which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of amonster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of anew year.
One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallowa GREat many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old mancame to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, "I hear say thatyou are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earthinstead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" So, it didswallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and theirdomestic animals from time to time.
After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out tobe an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are alsoscared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the oldman left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windowsand 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 most.
From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried onfrom generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive theNian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinesehaving both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". The custom of putting upred paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance torun loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why theyare doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to theexcitement of the celebration.
