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2025 will be the Year of the Snake, and the billions of people who live in countries that follow the lunisolar calendar, such as China, will welcome the new year on January 29.

Chunjie is also known as the Spring Festival, which lasts for two weeks and celebrates the end of the coldest days of winter and the beginning of spring. Some of the traditions that are associated with Chunjie are designed to keep a demonic beast called Nian at bay. This mythical creature — which looks similar to a lion with a horn on its head — languishes in the depths of the ocean for most of the year, but on the last day of the lunar year, it comes ashore in search of people and livestock to feast upon. According to tradition, Nian is frightened of firecrackers and anything that's red, which is why you see plenty of both at this time of year.

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