1. In ancient times, there was a ferocious monster called Nian. Every year on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, it would go from village to house, looking for human flesh and killing living creatures. One night on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, Nian arrived in a village and happened to see two shepherd boys competing in a cattle whip competition. Nian suddenly heard the sound of a whip cracking in the air and was so frightened that he ran away. It ran to another village and saw a red dress hanging in front of a house. It didn't know what it was, so it was so frightened that it turned around and ran away. Later, it came to a village and looked into the door of a house. It saw bright lights inside, which made it dizzy, so it had to sneak away with its tail between its legs. From this, people figured out that the New Year was afraid of the sound, red, and light, and thought of many ways to resist it, which gradually evolved into today's New Year customs.

2. Another theory is that in ancient Chinese calligraphy books, the word "year" was placed in the "He" department to indicate good weather and good harvests. Because grains generally ripen once a year. The year was extended to the name of the year.

3. Although Chinese people in ancient my country had already had the custom of celebrating the New Year, 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 twenty-four solar terms.

4. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Spring Festival generally refers to the entire spring. It is said that the Lunar New Year was officially named the Spring Festival after the Revolution of 1911. Since the solar calendar was to be switched to the Gregorian calendar at that time, in order to distinguish the agricultural and solar festivals, the first day of the first lunar month had to be renamed the Spring Festival.