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The legend of Nian
Long long ago, there was a horrible animal called Nian. It
usually had slept for more than three hundred days, and when it woke up, it
would eat mankind.
A fairy told people
that Nian would be most scared by something whose color is red and whose sound
is big. When Nian was coming, people would glue red papers on the door and fire
bamboos. Nian was frightened away when seeing the red color and hearing the big
sound of bamboos on fire.
That is the origin
of our posting new year’s scrolls and setting off firecrackers on Chinese new
year’s day.
Why do people post
new year’s scrolls and set off firecrackers on Chinese new year’s day?
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