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关于春节的儿童英语故事 The Origin of Chinese New Year The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the SpringFestival because it starts from the Begining of Spring the first of the twenty-four terms incoodination with the changes of Nature。 Its origin is too old to be traced. Severalexplanations are hanging around. All agree， however， that the word Nian， which in modernChinese solely means year， was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey onpeople the night before the beginning of a new year. One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swa