The Chinese New Year

                                            The Chinese New Year

This festival known as “The Chinese New Year” or “Spring Festival” is a festival   based on the lunisolar calendar. It begins in the first day of the lunisolar calendar and it ends with the beginning of the latern‘s festival, in these days begins the biggest human migration of the world, this migration is called The Spring Movement. In this period the people goes to their origin place.

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                          CYCLE

The animal zodiac:  there is a 10-year cycle of heavenly stems. Each of the ten heavenly stems is associated with one of the five elements of Chinese astrology, and these elements are: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The elements are rotated every two years while a yin and yang association alternates every year. The elements are thus distinguished: Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, etc. These produce a combined cycle that repeats every 60 years. For example, the year of the Yang Fire Rat occurred in 1936 and in 1996, 60 years apart.

                                                     MYTHOLOGY

According to tales and legends, the beginning of the Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian. Nian would eat villagers, especially children. One year, all the villagers decided to, hide from the beast .An old man appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that he's going to stay the night, and decided to get revenge on the Nian. All the villagers thought he was insane. The old man put red papers up and set off firecrackers. The day after, the villagers came back to their town to see that nothing was destroyed. They assumed that the old man was a deity who came to save them. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid of the color red and loud noises. When the New Year was about to come, the villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns, and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used firecrackers to frighten away the Nian. From then on, Nian never came to the village again. The Nian was eventually captured by Hongjun Laozu, an ancient Taoist monk. The Nian became Hongjun Laozu's mount.

Conclusion: I chose this festival because i think that it is very interesting how  people move and go to their houses and  they all together do a festival , dance , use fireworks and get really close among them