以“the Chinese New Year”为题写一篇短文

The Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year is an important festival for Chinese people all over the word.It is also called The Spring Festival or The Lunar New Year.
The exat date of the festival on the western calender changes from year to year.However The Chinese New Year take place from Janurary 1st to Febrary 19th.
On the Chinese calender every year has an animal's name.These animals are rat,ox,tiger,rabbit,dragon,snake,horse,ram,monkey,rooster,dog and pig.A Chinese legend says these twelve anmials had a race,the first year was named after the rat,the winner.The other eleven years were named according to the order the animals arrived in the race.The clever rat jumped on the ox's back,and then ate the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first.
The Chinese believe that the people born on the particular year has some of the anmial's characteristics of that anmial.可以