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One of the legend of Chinese New Year:The year of the cook bring in the new year

Bringing in the new year, is the last one day in old year to does not go to bed at the mid-night, sit up to greet new custom of a year of arrival, also call New Year's Eve bring in the new year, a" cook year".Investigate the background of this custom, spread a story of interesting in the folks:

Too the ancient times period, there is a kind of fierce monster, spreading to reside in deep mountain woods, the people take care of they call" year".Its facial look is ferocious, the born nature is bloodthirsty, eating the birds and beasts, the fish and shellfish insect 豸 particularly, a day changes a kind of taste from kowtowing the insect to had been eat till to live the person greatly, letting the person talk that the color of" year" change.Afterwards, the people controled the movable regulation of" year" slowly, it separates 365 days to flee each time the place that crowd gathers to reside taste a fresh, and time that appear and disappear are all at get dark hereafter, wait until the chicken 鸣 day-break, they returned then to go to in the forest.

Allowed the date that" year" indulge in atrocities on the whole, the common people treat this terrible night as to close to come then very, call" year end", and figured out a the whole set to celebrate New Year's Eve the way of the pass:Each time to this evening, each per families work well the supper in advance, turn off the clean cooking stove, then chase a fastening with all stockade of chicken, the house hospital in front and back the doors all seal, hiding to eat" New Year's Eve dinner" in the house, because of this dinner have fierce 吉 don't 卜 of meaning, so buy very flourishing, in addition to wanting that the whole family the old and the young rounds together to have a meal to mean in peace and harmony and reunitedly, return the beard at have a meal to provide the worship of ancestors before and first first, the spirit of the imprecation ancestry protect, spending this night safe and sound, after eating the supper, who all dare not the sleeping, pushing to sit together to talk away to encourage.Became the habit of bring in the new year of year of the New Year's Eve cook gradually.

Bring in the new year the custom rise in the South and North Dynasty, beam toward of not a few scholars all have the poem text of the bringing in the new year." A night connects a year old, five even divide two years." The people order to rise the candle or oil lamps, keeping night watch all night, symbolizing to shine on the whole evil 瘟s disease epidemic disease to run to get rid of to walk, in hopes of new year, the good luck is satisfied.This kind of customs was spread by the people up to now.

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.

The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.

The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.本回答被提问者采纳

农历年

There's an old called "years" the monster, head length Angle, fierce anomaly, life in the sea. On New Year's eve will climbed out, the spitting food livestock harm thy soul. So a to New Year's eve, everyone fled to the mountains, to avoid the damage. This year, from the village to a silver whiskers elegant, eye if lang star old yourself. Midnight "years" burst into the village, is preparing to bluster, all of a sudden there was "cracking" Fried noise, the old has put on red appear in front of the "year", "year" shuddered, to flee to the sea, and the night can't into the village. This is to celebrates New Year's eve legends and the origin of firecrackers, and then after thousands of years of development, the Chinese New Year customs to accept the more abundant the.

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