摘 要: | The Chinese New Year is now known asthe Spring Festival because it starts from thebeginning of spring.Though there are somesayings about its origin(起源,由来),all agreethat the word Nian,which in modern Chinesemeans“year”,was originally the name of abeast(野兽)that started to eat people thenight before the beginning of a new year. One story goes that the beast Nian had a
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