英语翻译The Chinese New Year i now known as the Spring Festival

英语翻译
The Chinese New Year i now known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the beginning of spring.Though there are some sayings about its origin(起源）,all agree that the word Nian,which in modern Chinese means"year",was originally the name of a beast(野兽）that starts to eat people the night before the beginning of a new year.
One tory goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would take in a great many people at one time.People were very afraid.One day,an old man came to their help and aid he would top all this.To Nian,he said."I hear that you are very strong,but can you eat up all the beast on earth instead of people who are too weak to be your enemy(敌人)?""Yes,"Nian agreed with him and went to kill many of the beat on earth.People were very happy because those beasts also did bad things to people and killed farm animals from time to time.
After that,the old man,who was a god,rode on the beast Nian and left.Nian was gone,and other beasts also went into forest;people began to enjoy their happy life.Before the old man left,he had told people to put up red paper-cuts on their windows and doors at each year's end to drive Nian away,because red is the color that beast felt mot afraid of.
From then on,every year at the beginning of spring,people"Guo Nian".The words"Guo Nian"means "Go through the Nian safely".Putting up red paper-cuts to drive Nian away and making dumplings for a better year are still an every-year doing by the Chinese people.However(然而）,people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this,they jut feel the color and the food made the New Year very enjoyable.
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（有点语法错误）我所知道的中国的新年叫做春节,因为一年开始于春季之初.虽然有些关于春节起源的传说,但是一般的说法是,在现代汉语中“年”这个词的含义是一种在新年来临前那个晚上开始吃人的野兽.一个故事中说到,年兽有一张很大的可以一次吃下很多人的嘴.人们都很害怕.一天,一位老人来帮助人们,他说他可以阻止这一切.他对年说：我听说你非常强大,但是你能吃光大地上除了弱小而并不能跟你敌对的人类之外的全部走兽吗?“是啊,”年答应他并且去吞噬大地上好多走兽.人们非常高兴,因为这些走兽对人类也是不利的,他们常常吃掉家畜.
在那之后,那位神仙老人骑着年兽离开了.年走了,其他走兽也回到了林野中.人们开始过上幸福的生活.老人走前曾经说过,在每一年末的那天在窗户和门上张贴红色的纸条可以赶走年兽.因为野兽都害怕红色.
从那以后,每年的春季之初,人们都“过年”.“过年”这个词是说“安全经过年兽身边”.贴春联赶年兽、为了好年景包饺子是中国人过年必做的事情,然而,今天的人们已经遗忘了为什么要做这些,大家仅仅是感觉这种颜色和这些食物非常令人享受.