{"id":1860,"date":"2020-01-23T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:08:29","slug":"1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pbs-main-wrapper\"><h2>A Legend of the Origin of Chinese New Year<\/h2>\n<p>Like all traditional festivals in China, Chinese New Year is steeped with stories and myths. One of the most popular is about the mythical beast Nian, who ate livestock, crops, and even people on the eve of a new year. (It&#8217;s interesting that Nian, the &#8216;yearly beast&#8217;, sounds the same as &#8216;year&#8217; in Chinese.)<\/p>\n<p>To prevent Nian from attacking people and causing destruction, people put food at their doors for Nian.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s said that a wise old man figured out that\u00a0<b>Nian was scared of loud noises (firecrackers) and the color red<\/b>. So, then people put\u00a0red lanterns\u00a0and red scrolls on their windows and doors to stop Nian from coming inside. Crackling bamboo (later replaced by firecrackers) was lit to scare Nian away.<\/p>\n<p>Let us learn lessons from the last year\u2019s mistakes and welcome the Chinese New Year with open arms, great spirits and high hopes\u2026. Happy Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CNY-2020-v4-FA-05.jpg\" xlink=\"href\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1861 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CNY-2020-v4-FA-05-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CNY-2020-v4-FA-05-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CNY-2020-v4-FA-05-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CNY-2020-v4-FA-05-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CNY-2020-v4-FA-05.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Legend of the Origin of Chinese New Year Like all traditional festivals in China, Chinese New Year is steeped with stories and myths. One of the most popular is about the mythical beast Nian, who ate livestock, crops, and even people on the eve of a new year. (It&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}