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元旦作文400字：元旦英语优秀作文
new year:
chinese new year (simplified chinese: 春节, or 农历新年; traditional c 第2页 /总页数 3 页
元旦作文400字：元旦英语优秀作文
new year:
chinese new year (simplified chinese: 春节, or 农历新年; traditional chinese: 春节, or 农历新年; pinyin: chūnjié, or nónglì xīnnián), or the spring festival/lunar new year is the most important of the traditional chinese holidays. the chinese new year period lasts for 15 days, beginning on the first day of the first lunar month (正月 zheng yue) of the chinese calendar. the holiday period ends with 元宵节 （yuan xiao jie), on the 15th day of the festival.
it is possible that the beginning of the year began with month 1 during the xia dynasty, month 12 during the shang dynasty, and month 11 during the zhou dynasty in china, but intercalary months were added after month 12 during both the shang dynasty according to surviving oracle bones and the zhou dynasty according to sima qian. the first emperor of china qin shi huang changed the beginning of the year to month 10 in 221 bc. whether the new year was celebrated at the beginning of these months or at the beginning of month 1 or both is unknown. in 104 bc, emperor wu established month 1 as the beginning of the year where it remains.
according to legend, in ancient china, nian ("nyan"), a maneating beast from the mountains, could infiltrate houses silently to prey on hum