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Why don't the shops close for the New Year?

if the store doesn't close during the Spring Festival, it will open as usual.

The origin of the Spring Festival:

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian, which went from house to house on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. On the thirtieth night of the twelfth lunar month, Nian arrived in a village, and it happened that two cowboys were competing for a whip.

"Nian" suddenly heard the sound of whipping in mid-air, and ran away in fear. It fled to another village, and saw a bright red dress drying in front of a door. It didn't know what it was, so it turned around and ran away. Later, he came to a village, looked into the door of a family, and saw the bright lights inside, which made him dizzy and had to slip away again, with his tail between his legs. From this, people realized that Nian has the weakness of being afraid of noise, red and light, and they thought of many ways to resist it.

statement 2:

in ancient Chinese calligraphy books, the word "nian" was put in the grain department to show that the weather is favorable and the crops are abundant. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. The "year" was extended to the name of the year. Although there was a custom of celebrating the Spring Festival in ancient China, it was not called the Spring Festival at that time. Because the Spring Festival mentioned at that time refers to the "beginning of spring" among the 24 solar terms. The Northern and Southern Dynasties generally referred to the Spring Festival as the whole spring.

It is said that it was after the Revolution of 1911 that the Lunar New Year was officially named Spring Festival. Because the solar calendar was to be used at that time, in order to distinguish between agriculture and Yang, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed the Spring Festival.