Modern folk custom on the Spring Festival also known as the Chinese New Year's day. In fact, the origin of the year and the Spring Festival is not the same.
中文翻译: 现代民间习惯上把过春节又叫做过年。其实,年和春节的起源是很不相同的。
Exactly how to "year"? In ancient times, there is a fierce monster called "year", every month, 30, was from village, foraging human flesh, destroyed creatures.
中文翻译:那么"年"究竟是怎么样来的呢?古时候,有一种叫做"年"的凶猛怪兽,每到腊月三十,便窜村挨户,觅食人肉,残害生灵。
There's a lunar month of 30 in the evening, "year" in a village, cattle whip comes at a time when two boy in the game." Year "suddenly smell air ring snapped BianSheng, frighten the run. It went to another village and took a look at the door with a big red clothes, it didn't know it was, frighten hurriedly turned away.
中文翻译:有一个腊月三十晚上,"年"到了一个村庄,适逢两个牧童在比赛牛鞭子。"年"忽闻半空中响起了啪啪的鞭声,吓得望风而逃。它窜到另一个村庄,又迎头望到了一家门口晒着件大红衣裳,它不知其为何物,吓得赶紧掉头逃跑。
People thus decision-makingprocesses the "year" is afraid, afraid of red, be afraid of the light of the weakness, then think of many methods against it, then gradually evolved into today's Chinese New Year customs.
中文翻译:人们由此摸准了"年"有怕响,怕红,怕光的弱点,便想到许多抵御它的方法,于是逐渐演化成今天过年的风俗。
Although Chinese ancient folk already have the Chinese New Year customs, but was not called the Spring Festival. When the Spring Festival, refers to the 24 solar terms of "spring".
中文翻译:我国古代民间虽然早已有过年的风俗,但那时并不叫做春节。因为那时所说的春节,指的是二十四节气中的"立春"。
Spring is the Spring Festival "refers to the whole of the northern and southern dynasties. It is said that the lunar New Year officially named as the Spring Festival, it is after the xinhai revolution. Because at that time to switch to the Gregorian calendar, in order to distinguish between agriculture, Yang two, so I had to the name of first lunar month to "Spring Festival".
中文翻译:南北朝则把春节泛指为整个春季。据说,把农历新年正式定名为春节,是辛亥革命后的事。由于那时要改用阳历,为了区分农、阳两节,所以只好将农历正月初一改名为"春节"。