气喘吁吁的意思关于元宵节的初中英语作文

关于元宵节的初中英语作文

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring

Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of

the twenty-four terms in coodination with the

changes of Nature).

Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging

around.

All

agree, however, that the word

Nian,

which

in

modern

Chinese solely means

beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning

of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that

would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very

scared.

One

day,

an

old

man

came

to

their

rescue,

offering

to

subdue Nian. To Nian he said,

but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of

people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?

swallow

many

of

the

beasts

of

prey

on

earth

that

also

harrassed

people and their domestic animals from time to time.

After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He

turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other

beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy

their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put

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