关于写春节的作文英语【实用20篇】

Spring festival is the most important festival to Chinese people.

It always lasts for 15 days.Before this day,all the family members eat dinner together.Last spring festival,my parents and I had a wonderful time. We had the most delicious dinner. After dinner, my parents watched the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV together.But my cousins and I went outside and set off fireworks.

They were so beautiful. The next day, we got the lucky money from the elders.We are looking forward to the next spring festival.

A new year ，a new start，when I stand on the edge of the  a new year，I cant help thinking about my plan of next year.

Just as the old saying：“Well began is the half of the success.”So I decide that I should be at work while the others are still relaxing ，and then ，at the beginning ，Im quicker than the others and of course I will get better result than the others.

But ，what I really decide to do is that I must make good of anytime I can spare though it seems impossible. While，I will do my best to live up  the with what I have planned，and the result will prove it.

spring festival is approaching, every household in hurry to buy hui-chun, paintings and so on. on this night, i and my mom went to the fathers father held a spring festival party.

after a few minutes by car, we came to the destination. has just entered the scene, i was attracted those colorful lights, as well as colored spotlights and turn the ball it! i made him look happy because i was the first time i saw such a beautiful stage.

unconsciously, this chinese new year party in a unit, thunderous applause ended, the spring festival party really happy ah!

春节将至,每个急于购买会春,绘画等家庭。在这个晚上,我和妈妈去了父亲的父亲举行了春节晚会。车后几分钟,我们来到了目的地。刚刚进入现场,我是吸引那些五颜六色的灯光,以及彩色聚光灯,把球吧!我让他看起来很高兴,因为我是我第一次看到如此美丽的舞台。

我的父亲和母亲发现,太空坐下。不久,主持人说:“春节联欢会了!”我想:今天的演出将是非常有趣。因此,我盯着主持人。 “第一个程序是吴解其缗的高原,我们欢迎的掌声!”听到这里,我不由自主地拍了拍手,因为阿姨闵是最友好的合作伙伴的父亲。随着音乐播放,敏感的母亲姊妹一起唱,观众欢呼声不时,终于来了,阿姨是在超敏在高端音频节目。观众闯入如雷的掌声,一些韩骑父亲的口号:“论,是的!”掌声和呐喊爆发。

节目主持人出来说:“第二个项目是下一个小姐朱小红舞蹈表演,我们欢迎的掌声!”不久,我们看到一个身穿红色服装,手持一个大姐姐,太极扇出人头地,当她到表,我突然感到中华民族的大火持续燃烧了1。 “邓小平,邓小平,邓小平。”音乐响起,并立即挥舞着大姐姐谁在太极球迷的下怀,跳跃精彩舞蹈。她shenqingruyan,动作一个接一个,完全没有经验,我们可以看到他的大姐姐排练,多么困难啊!

[春节英语优秀作文

春节The Spring Festival

农历 lunar calendar

正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar

除夕 New Years Eve; eve of lunar New Year

初一 the beginning of New Year

元宵节 The Lantern Festival

Food names:

年糕 Nian-gao; rice cake; New Year cake

团圆饭 family reunion dinner

年夜饭 the dinner on New Years Eve

饺子 Jiao-zi; Chinese meat ravioli

汤圆 Tang-yuan; dumplings made of sweet rice, rolled into balls and stuffed with either sweet or spicy fillings

八宝饭 eight treasures rice pudding

糖果盘 candy tray

什锦糖 assorted candies - sweet and fortune

蜜冬瓜 candied winter melon - growth and good health

西瓜子 red melon seed - joy, happiness, truth and sincerity

金桔 cumquat - prosperity

糖莲子 candied lotus seed - many descendents to come

糖藕 candied lotus root - fulfilling love relationship

红枣 red dates - prosperity

花生糖 peanut candy - sweet

祝你新的一年快乐幸福 Wish you happiness and prosperity in the coming year!

Customs:

过年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival

对联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry

春联 Spring Festival couplets

剪纸 paper-cuts

年画 New Year paintings

买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping

敬酒 propose a toast

灯笼 lantern: a portable light

烟花 fireworks

爆竹 firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop。)

红包 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year。)

舞狮 lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck。)

舞龙 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests)

戏曲 traditional opera

杂耍 variety show; vaudeville

灯谜 riddles written on lanterns

灯会 exhibit of lanterns

守岁 staying-up

拜年 pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit

禁忌 taboo

去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune

祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to ones ancestors

压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift

辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year

扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning

In a year of many programs, my favorite is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is also called the Chinese New Year.

According to legend, "year" is a monster, every Chinese new year it ran to the scourge of human people, so people in the door to paste the red antithetical couplet, home burning fire, burning firecrackers to scare away Sheng "year", so the formation of people with fire, burning, paste antithetical couplet Sheng firecrackers is celebrated a year of good harvest and pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year tradition.

As soon as the Spring Festival comes, our family will go to grandmas home. The old house is busy, and the people out are going back. Every year is waiting for my father to write a couplet, we help to stick. The most interesting thing is to put off fireworks and firecrackers, and always do not play enough. Grandpa and grandmas "money" is more than a year, saying that it is saving for us to read the University. With mom and dad went from door to door, a relative blessing, "Happy New Year" "Happy New Year" "fortune" and "when leading" the university entrance exam

The Spring Festival is the end of a year. It is also the beginning of the year. People celebrate the years harvest in the Spring Festival, and summarize the results of the year. The harvest of people on holidays, jubilant, eat delicacy, to reward their relatives. At this time, I will calm down in the bustle, think of the past year, how I have passed, what is worth remembering, and what is worth celebrating. "The plan of a year is spring". Spring is a new beginning of a year, and it is my starting point. We should plan my life for a year and get better results.

Life is full of hope, I am most looking forward to the Spring Festival. As the growth of the age, the reason why I look forward to the Spring Festival is also changed.

When I was babble, looking forward to the Spring Festival because the Spring Festival in many adults to visit, they will be praised me when they saw me grow very cute, let my heart fruity.

After kindergarten, I begin to love to play. So I look forward to the Spring Festival is to play with friends. We set off firecrackers, clay, hide and seek, wreaths...

In elementary school, I know that money can buy, buy books, stationery, buy groceries, you can also save with university, this is the reason why I look forward to the Spring Festival.

Now, I enjoy the beautiful scenery. Looking forward to the Spring Festival reason again in the Spring Festival, the spring is coming. Spring is a green world, a world full of. Flowers, warbler dancing butterflies fly, grass spring peach bright, this is the characteristics of the spring. Spring breeze blowing, it was the angel of voice, with all sorts of color of paint, dye red the gills of the peach blossom, white pear flower face, stained from the winter jasmine pigtails. It also blew the cx, green branches, blue sky, blowing and a smile on the surface of the lake. Float to the spring rain, it is a thread in the hands of a voice, a glimmer, embroidered with a piece of green. Schools of thought contend, flowers, birds, the beautiful spring, snow and ice melt. The ancients said, "people in the picture", it is exactly.

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival， Chinese Happy New Year，is the most important festival for all of us. All family members get together on Happy New YearEve to have a big meal.At the same time， everyone celebrates to each other.At about 12 oclock，some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly.How busy it is!

On the first early moring of one year， many senior citizen get up early and they stick the reversed Fu or hang some couplets on the front door. Some houses windows are sticked on red paper cutlings.

The Chinese Happy New Year lasts fifteen days. So during the fifteen days， we always visit our relatives from door to door. At that time， children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents，grandparents， uncles， aunts and so on. The last day of the Chinese Happy New Year is another festival. It names the Lantern Festival.

So the Chinese Happy New Year comes to the end.

Spring Festival is our traditional festival, as the saying goes, Chinese New Year.

On the day before the New Year, people go shopping in crowded stores. Some people buy chickens, ducks, geese, some people buy fish and meat, others buy biscuits, chocolate and other snacks...

One afternoon, my father took a broom and swept the house up and down. Mother rubbed the table and Windows clean with a duster. And I? It is to stick the decorations on the wall. The whole house became clean and beautiful. We were very happy.

Chinese New Year, for our children, is the most enjoyable, I look forward to that day.

Is cold in the winter of this year, every day I watch the weather forecast, know this several days the highest temperature to ten degrees or so. This kind of weather is easy to catch a cold, so wear more clothes. My Spring Festival to the weather is a little different, is "warm".

My grandma and grandpa, the pain, the most concerned about me, they not only care about me, but will also forgive me, give me a reason. Unlike impulse dad, I do wrong, he is not playing, is called. But also cant completely said father very impulse, as long as Im not being naughty, my dad is very kind to me. In recent years, my performance is progress than before, was beaten, always to be changed, now they is very kind to me. I feel warm in my heart, let me forget the bone-chilling cold. Therefore, although this years weather is so cold, but my heart is always flooded with a stream of warm current.

Hope everybody can like me, have a happy Spring Festival.

今年的冬天格外的冷，我天天看天气预报，知道这几天最高温度才十度左右。这种天气很容易感冒，所以要多穿衣服。可我的春节跟天气比起来有点儿不一样，是“暖和”的。

我的爷爷、奶奶最疼、最关心我了，他们不仅关心我，而且还会原谅我，给我讲道理。不像冲动的爸爸，我做错事，他不是打，就是骂。可是也不能完全说爸爸很冲动，只要我不调皮捣蛋，爸爸还是很和蔼地对待我。近年来，我的表现比以前进步了，以前总被挨打，今非昔比，如今他们对我可好了。我心里感到暖烘烘的，让我忘记刺骨的严寒。因此，尽管今年的天气是那样的寒冷，但是我的心里却总是涌着一股暖流。

希望大家能和我一样，度过一个愉快的春节。

The lunar new year is a great occasion to the chinese people. it lasts about the first four days of the year,during which people do not work except for the workers on duty. students do not go to school,and shops are closed.

several days before the new year,people begin to prepare. farmers kill pigs,sheep,cocks and hens. city dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables. houses are cleaned; coupletsare posted on the doors. colourful lanterns are hung at the gate.

On the eve of the new year,each family has its members gatherd together and eats a family reunion dinner. after the meal they watch tv until the clock strickes twelve. then every family sets off long strings of small firecrackers and other fire works to welcome the new year. on the first day of the new year,almost everyone is dressed in his or her best. when people meet on the way,they say to each other “happy new year”. friends and relatives pay new year calls and gives presents to each other. children indulge themselves in games.

I’m a 20 year-ol d boy, and the following is my story.

A month after I graduated from high school in August, 2013, I was coming home from swim_practice in the training centre of the city and was involved in a car accident. I was so seriously injured that I was in a coma for more than two months at Prince Georges Hospital.

I suffered a lot from the experience of dying eight times during my coma and I couldn’t open my mouth to talk or to communicate when I eventually came around. At that time, it seemed that walking was never going to happen again due to all the extreme injuries. Just like my body, my dreams were completely destroyed. But I was not going to let my injuries stop me from realizing my dreams．

After receiving a total of 15 operations and 36 blood transfusions, I had to make every great effort to learn to talk, eat, walk, shower, and live on my own again. When I was out of hospital,_I still had to go to outpatient therapy in Waldorf, Maryland. After I spent a few months in a wheelchair,_I took baby steps to walk on my own. It was a miracle that

I was able to walk again, but I still wanted to prove that I could not only walk, but also run.

When it came true, I wanted to get back into the pool again. After having a few lung tests, I was able to go in the pool a little bit each week. After a few months of swim training,_I began my freshman year at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and then became a proud member of the swim team.

By telling my story, I want to make a positive influence on the world. I am just trying to live dad push me round in my them and their family members. I wanted to let them know that everything was going to be okay. Somehow, things would work out for the best.

[春节主题英语作文

The spring festival ichinese most traditional festival ever365 days. each chinese pamuch attention on it. everyear about 15 daybefore spring festival， the migrate workand white-collarare beginning crowded home-returning.

but， in recent years， with the development of the world， mandifferent attitudebetween the young and the old towardthe spring festival come forth. the old are still pamore attention to the spring festival， but the young graduallchange the mode to spend their spring festival holiday， such atravel overseas.

when i am a childhood， i celebrated the spring festival with mfamilabout a month in mwinter vacation in traditional way， such ahelping cleaning our houses， putting red coupleton gates， setting off firecrackers， and wear new clothes. now， i spend onl4 or 5 dayat home with mparentin celebrating the spring festival， then i will hurrback to work. maybe in the near future， i will have no time celebrating spring festival hometown， and mparenthave to come to stawith uin the city.

whether or no， i like the spring festival. it ione of the most important part of our chinese culture. however busi am， i will trmbest to celebrating it with the traditional wato protect those our ancestor haleave behind.

Another Chinese New Year arrived, dad said: "the Spring Festival to return home with grandma." Family reunion dinner mom made a delicious fish, mom said: "eat fish on behalf of the annual New Year." I looked up doubt ask a mother: "every year more than fish is on behalf of heaven will drop down to us to eat? She smiled and said to me:" the fish is more harmonics, fish is a symbol of wealth. "Like a duck to water" used to describe the work and life happiness, harmonious, and happy.

On the first day, I got up early, to grandma happy New Year, my grandma gave me a red envelope, I said happily: "thank you, I wish you a happy holiday!" The Spring Festival fireworks, wear new clothes, watching the dragon boat show, visiting relatives and friends, eat, drink, and be merry. The holiday was happy!

又一个春节到了，爸爸说：“这个春节要回老家陪奶奶一起过。”年夜饭妈妈做了香喷喷的鱼，妈妈说：“过年吃鱼代表年年有余。”我仰起头疑惑的问妈妈：“年年有余是不是代表天上会掉鱼下来给我们吃?她笑着对我说：”鱼是余的谐音，鱼象征着富贵。“如鱼得水”用来描述工作和生活和谐美满、幸福。

大年初一，我早早的起床，去给奶奶拜年，奶奶给了我红包，我高兴地说：“谢谢，祝您节日快乐!”春节放烟花、穿新衣、看龙舟表演、走亲访友、吃喝玩乐。这个节日过得真快乐啊!

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of our country. Every year, every household will eat dinner, paste couplets, fireworks, but busy!

"Get up, get up..." On February 17th, early in the morning, mother urged me to get up, said to take me to buy necessities. I am a listen to immediately get out of bed, dressed quickly, in a hurry after breakfast, and mother go to the market. We came to a couplet of the stall. A: wow! There were so many styles, our eyes are spent. Suddenly I saw a pair of couplets, top allied: happiness chardonnay thousand music, bottom allied write: offer the old plum Singapore flavours. I feel very good, then show it to the mother, mother also feel good, bought it. Today, we went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables much more special, my mother and I managed to squeeze in. Mom bought a roast duck, sausage, vegetables, meatballs, etc. A lot of delicious, we cant carry it all. Back home, the home has come a lot of relatives, sister, brother, uncle, aunt... Good lively! They gave me money, I was really big harvest!

In the afternoon, my brother and I together stick couplets, paste, my brother and I ran upstairs together, waiting for a big family reunion dinner on the table, by the way, I also help make dumplings, ha ha. The fireworks in the evening, my in the mind very happy! "Chip, pa" "dong, dong," came the voice of fireworks exploded outside the window, a chain of moments of fireworks fly in the sky, colorful, beautiful! Look at the others fireworks, there isnt much to take, I also went downstairs fireworks! When we have a good time, father shouted upstairs "come on, the Spring Festival evening party started! We have a listen to, and scrambled upstairs.

This year the Spring Festival is fun! More and more, I like the Spring Festival.

春节是我国的传统节日。每到大年三十，家家户户都会吃年夜饭、贴对联、放烟花，可热闹了!

“起床了，起床了……”，大年三十一大早，妈妈就催促我起床，说要带我去购买年货。我一听立刻从床上爬起来，急忙穿好衣服，匆匆吃完早饭，和妈妈一起去市场。我们来到一个卖对联的小摊上。哇!样式可真多啊，挑的我们眼睛都花了。忽然我看到了一副对联，上联写着：岁岁瑞霞千家乐，下联写着：献岁梅花万里香。我觉得挺好的，便拿给妈妈看，妈妈也觉得不错，就买下了。我们又去了菜市场，今天来买菜的人特别多，我和妈妈好不容易才挤了进去。妈妈买了烤鸭、香肠、青菜、肉丸等好多好吃的，我们都拿不动了。回到家里，家里已经来了好多亲人，有大姨、哥哥、舅舅、舅妈……好热闹啊!他们还给了我压岁钱呢，我可真是大丰收啊!

下午，我和哥哥一起贴对联，贴好后，我和哥哥一起跑上楼，等着丰盛的年夜饭上桌，对了，我还帮忙包饺子了呢，呵呵。到了晚上，该放烟花了，我心里好开心呀!“噼、啪”“咚、咚”，窗外传来烟花爆炸的声音，一串串的烟花飞上了天空，五彩缤纷的，漂亮极了!看别人放烟花，没有自己放好玩，我也下楼放烟花喽!正当我们玩的开心时，爸爸在楼上喊道：“快上来啦，春节晚会开始了”!我们一听，又争先恐后的拥上楼去。

今年过春节真好玩啊!我越来越喜欢春节了。

On New Years Eve,our class had a party. The atmosphere was good. It was out of the ordinary from the very begining. The boy student from one bedroom gave an unusual performance. We saw a boy named Li Xinmin turn off all the lights in a sudden snap. Then with three resounding（响亮的） crow of a cock echoing in the hall,the hall was again brightly lit in a snap.

Then,the representative of the bedroom Zhu Guozhang asked us to guess a line of a poem related to the above situation. He added that Li Xinmin alone was born in the year of the dog and the other three were all born in the year of the chicken. They left us all in confusion. And it was our monitor who was quickwitted（机智的）. He shouted our, "The day breaks as the cock crows three times at dawn." The hall After that,they had another item. This time Li Xinmin was placed in the middle of the circle. While he was standing there,the other three stood around him,each bowing down to him at an angle of 120 degrees. It was an idiom. This time I got it right："The dog stands out among a group of chickens."

The Spring Festival is one of the most important and traditional festivals in China.Our familiy members gather to celebrate the festival.We eat dumplings,were new clothes,playing firecrackers and send a greeting to frends and so on.Parents will give there children money for the new year coming.

Then we go to our frends or relatives home and says "happy new year!" .

In a word,the Sping Festival is very interesting very important festival.

Since the first day, going to the relatives friend home happy New Year. Younger people brought their children, with inclined to home New Year gift, inclined to send money to see big child.

Yuanxiao is listed, and a highlight of the Spring Festival. The 15th day of each unit of each department will hang out all kinds of lanterns, rotary, the comical, also a symbol of the brilliant achievements of enterprise or units, each has its own characteristics, is overwhelmed. Next, it played the fireworks, as fireworks setting off, pieces of beautiful fireworks bloom in the air.

In this way, the Spring Festival in the cheers and firecrackers sound, came to a close.

从正月初一开始，就要到亲戚朋友家拜年。小一辈的人领着孩子，带着礼物到老辈家里拜年，老辈要给小辈的孩子发压岁钱。

元宵上市，又一个春节的高潮到了。正月十五，各单位各部门都会挂出各式各样的花灯来，有旋转式的，有卡通式的，也有象征企业或单位的辉煌业绩的，各具特色，令人应接不暇。接下来，就该烟花出场了，随着花炮的燃放声，一朵朵漂亮的烟花在空中绽放。

就这样，春节就在欢呼声和燃放声中落幕了。

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The Spring Festival in China is an ancient festival, is also the most important throughout the year a festival to celebrate this holiday, over one thousand years of history in the development, formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, and there are many also it today.

Happy New Year Spring Festival, the elders will prepared New Years money to the younger generation, it is said that the New Years money can be pinned XieSui, because "old" and "are" harmonics, junior get lucky money can be spent a year in peace.

You must know that the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn festival in our country. Want to know what the festival custom, just to have a look at my composition.

Everyone set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, firecrackers is made for the Spring Festival because it is over, so every Chinese New Year approaching, every family fireworks, to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival. Set off firecrackers in the ancient world is to keep a monster named "year", "year" oppressed the people, but people set off firecrackers off it. So set off firecrackers to this as a Spring Festival customs.

In addition to set off firecrackers, and stick couplets is a kind of Spring Festival customs. Couplet is made of red paper, it is believed that red can decline demon in addition to magic, so do couplets written on red paper. Each with a couplet, also posted on the door "f" word, "fu" is backwards paste, why? Ha ha, mean to say "fu" (to).

New Year is the Spring Festival custom, New Year is my favorite, because can earn money in New Year!! New Year is in commonly on the first morning, everyone got up early, say hello to each other when they met said message, then each other happy New Year New Years money, this is my most happy moment! Worship the year I went home for his New Years money, flattered.

Spring Festival custom and there are many, such as wear new clothes, eat dumplings together... Now also held some games over the years, you can play, everyone is happy. The custom of Spring Festival so much!

大家肯定都知道春节吧，春节是我国最隆重的节日。想知道这个节日有什么习俗，就来看看我的作文吧。

大家在过春节时都放鞭炮，因为鞭炮是为春节而制作的，所以每逢春节来临，家家户户都燃放烟花爆竹，庆祝春节的到来。放鞭炮在古代是为了赶走一个叫“年”的怪兽，“年”欺压百姓，但人们放鞭炮赶走了它。所以放鞭炮作为一种春节习俗流传至今。

除了放鞭炮，贴对联也是一种春节习俗。对联是用红纸做的，人们相信红色可以降妖除魔，所以用红纸做对联。每一家都贴有对联，门上还贴了“福”字，“福”是倒着贴的，为什么呢?哈哈，意思是表示“福”倒(到)了。

拜年也是春节习俗，我最喜欢拜年了，因为拜年可以挣压岁钱呢!拜年一般在大年初一的早上，大家都起床很早，相遇时互相问好说祝福语，然后互相拜年发压岁钱，这时候是我最高兴的时刻啦!拜完年我回家数着自己的压岁钱，心里美滋滋的。

春节的习俗还有很多，如穿新衣，大家一起吃饺子……现在这几年又举办了一些游戏，可以玩，大家都开心。春节的习俗真多呀!

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The Spring Festival is very important to Chinese people.In the past,people could not often have meat,rice or other delicious food.They could only eat these during the Spring festival.So every year they hoped that the Spring Festival would come soon.Now,although people‘s life is much better,and we can eat the delicious foods everyday.People still like the festival.Because most people can have a long holiday,and we are free to go on a trip or visit our friends or have parties with our family.In the evenings,we can have a big meal in the restaurant or stay at home with family and watch the TV programmes.

I like the Spring Festival very much.How wonderful the Spring Festival is!

春节是中国人民非常重要。在过去,人们不可能经常有肉,大米或其他美味的食物。在春节期间他们只能吃这些。所以每一年他们希望春节很快就会来的。现在,虽然人们的生活要好得多,我们可以每天吃美味的食物。人们仍然喜欢这个节日。因为大多数人可以有很长的假期,我们可以去旅行或访问我们的朋友和我们家有聚会。在晚上,我们可以有一顿大餐在餐馆或呆在家里和我的家人看电视节目。

我非常喜欢春节。春节是多么美妙!

the origin of chinese new yearchinese new year, pronounced in chinese as "xin nian", always falls on the date of marking the beginning of the spring and thus it is also called the "spring festival". "xin" means "new" and "nian" means "year". there are many stories told about the origin of "nian", which actually is a name of animals.

the old story says that the beast "nian" with a very big mouth was so fierce and could swallow many people in one single bite. people were very scared. an old man offered to subdue "nian" and said to "nian": "i hear that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" so "nian" swallowed many of the other beasts that hurt people and their domestic animals. the old man turned out to be an immortal god and riding the beast "nian" flied to the heaven.

now that "nian" is gone and other beasts were also scared into forests, people began to enjoy their peaceful life. before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each years end to scare away "nian" in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.