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Chinese New Year Origins – Why Chinese Celebrate Chinese New Year?
Since Chinese New Year begins on the first day of spring in the Lunar Calendar, Chinese New Year is also widely known as Spring Festival as well, particularly to the Westerners. Though Chinese New year is magnificently celebrated by the Chinese, not many know the origins of Chinese New Year and what is the significant of celebrating it.
The myth once said that, ‘Nian’ (meaning year in Chinese) was actually the name of a beast that started to attack the villagers the night before the New Year begins. The beast hid in the village and started attacking them when night falls.
That particular beast was very well known because of its big mouth that is big enough to gulp a bunch of people in a bite. The beast started to attack the villagers and swallowing them. Therefore, the villagers were always afraid towards the end of each year, where the day comes and the beast started to attack them. The villagers had become the prey of the beast.
One fine day, the villagers were rescued by an old man that told the beast to eat the other beasts instead of the innocent villagers. Right after that, the old man was seen riding on the back of the beast and went out of sight. Since then, the old man never appears again.
The villagers then believe that the old man, the savior of their life was actually the God sent down to rescue them. From then onwards, the beast was gone, so do other beasts as well.
Peaceful life of the villagers returned and there is nothing else to be afraid of. With the advice given by the old man, the villagers started to paste red paper decorations on windows and doors to prevent the beast. Just in case the beast came back, the villagers listen to the advice and paste them every year. True to them, the beast never came back again because red is the color that the beast fear most.
Hence, the tradition was passed down from generation to generation and the term ‘Guo Nian’ is used. ‘Guo Nian’ literally means survive the year which explains the situation way back in the century perfectly. The villagers survived the year; hence, Chinese New Year is celebrated with red decorations and the playing of firecrackers.
Up to this day, the tradition of decorating the house with red is still in the practice, but many don not have a clue to why red and firecrackers are used during Chinese New Year. People in the modern days did what is in the tradition thinking that, red brings them prosperous.
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