Firecrckers and Spring Festival Scrolls

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Nian is very dangerous.But he is afraid of therr things:the collor red ,a bright flame ,and roud noise.People now can make a way to stop Nian from coming into their villages. Before each year,all of the people painted their doors the color red .They also burned a fire in front ot their door.At night they didn't go to bed.Tey stayed up the whole night.They made noise by hitting things.Nian never came back to the villages. This custom continued through the years.The people knew bamboo makes a loud sound when burened.Later,people used firecackers instead of bamboo to make loud noise on the Spring Festival. Firecrackers make a lot of noise and pollution,so setting off firecrckers is against the law in many places.Some people now pop balloons or listen to firecrackers on a tape .Other people put firecracker decorations in their homes. Nian is also afraid of the color red .Villaers put red paper on their windows and doors.,Today they write couplets on each paper.the papers are put on the sides of the door.They are called Spring Festival scrolls,in Chinese we say "Chun Lian".