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Phew! The most horrible week of this year is finally over... 4 test in the week, where has the limit of 3 gone to? But thinking ahead, chinese new year is round the corner and i can make big bucks again! Speaking of chinese new year, do you know why chinese new year requires one to wear red clothes and light fire crackers? I am going to tell you the origin of it. One legend goes that there is a extrinsic beast called nian which come to a village every spring to prey on people. Villagers were very scared. One day, a deity visited the mortal world and saw the chaos allegedly caused by nian. He decided to teach the culpable nian a lesson as he knew what nian is scared of. He quickly called the villagers for a meeting and asked them to wear red clothes and hang red decoration an the house. Meanwhile, he asked the children to make fire crackers and to light it up when the nian comes. True enough, when nian saw and heared these things, he was so afraid that he ran away immediately. From then on, the villagers wear red clothes, hang red decorations and light fire crackers to preclude nian from coming back again. The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away the nomadic Nian should it have a chance to wander back and harm us is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the colour and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.