Chinese New Year The Lantern Festival The Beginning of Spring The Spring Dragon's Festival The Flower's Day The Cold Food's Day The Pure Brightness The Beginning of Summer Dragon Boat Festival Seventh Eve Festival O-bon Festival The Mid-autumn Day Chong Yang Festival The Winter Solstice Laba Festival Seeing off the Kitchen God
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When
the bell of the zero hour rings, people play fireworks to celebratethe
coming of the New Year, with firecrackers bursting all aroundand
fireworks blossoming in the sky. Actually, the Spring Festivalmeans the
same as the New Year's Day according to Chinese lunarcalendar. However
after the Revolution of 1911, China began to takethe Georgian Calendar
to number the years, so the 1st day of thelunar month was revised as the
Spring Festival. The tradition of playingfirecrackers in the Spring
Festival originated from a legend. It wassaid that the ancient people
burnt bamboo to frighten the ghosts andmonsters, because the cracking
sound of burning bamboo intimidatedthem a lot. Later, people used
gunpowder, one of the four greatinventions of ancient China, to make
firecrackers, which producedthe same cracking sound, when played, as
that of burning bamboo.Furthermore, various kinds of fireworks were
invented to play on NewYear's Eve so as to pursue good fortune and avoid
disaster, and tosignify good luck and happiness.