New Year'S Day Is A National Holiday.

One of the origins of new year's Day

New year's day, also known as "yuan day", "no Shuo", "no Chen", "Yuan Zheng" and so on, contains the meaning of the beginning of a year. Because the original meaning of "Yuan" is "human head" and is extended to "beginning". The original meaning of "Dan" is also "beginning".

New year's Day is the first day of every new year. "Yuan" has the meaning of beginning. "Dan" refers to the time of daylight, and also refers to the daytime. New year's Day is the first day of a year. "In the excavation of the great cultural relics, we found a picture of the sun rising from the mountains and clouds in the middle. After textual research, this is the oldest form of "Dan" writing in China. Later, on the bronze inscription of Shang Dynasty, it appeared again. Simplify The word "Dan". The word "Dan" is expressed in the round sun. The word "one" under "sun" Horizon It means that the sun is rising from the horizon. In his "Jie Ya", Xiao Ziyun, a literary historian in the Southern Dynasties, recorded that "four new styles of new year's day, the beginning of longevity, and the present era". In Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu's "Meng Liang Lu" volume one "first month" entry: "the first day of the first lunar month, called New Year's day, vulgar call for the new year." This is the first year of the festival. "New Year's day," the book "Shun Dian" called the "yuan day"; in the Han Dynasty Cui "three sons of Chai Ming" in the name of "Yuan Zheng"; in the Jin Dynasty, "Yang Du Fu" is called "Yuan Chen"; in the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was called "Yuan Chun" in a "Yuan Hui Da Song Xia Xia Ci"; Tang Dezong Li Shi "yuan day retreat to the army and war camp" poetry is called "Yuan Shuo". However, our new year's Day is not the January 1st of the Gregorian calendar, but also the beginning of the first month, also known as the yuan day. The chronology of Chinese history is not the year of the annals, but each emperor. Dynasty They all have separate chronology, and they are the chronology of the lunar calendar. The current era of the year is the embodiment of Western calendar. The birth of Christ was the 1 year of Christ. China only gradually changed to the year of the Christian era after the Republic of China. Therefore, the Lunar New Year is more celebrated than the Lunar New Year's day. There are different kinds of names in Chinese dialects. Those called "New Year's Day" are called "the first day of the big day".

The month day of new year's day in China is not consistent. Xia Dynasty was at the beginning of the first month of the first month, and in the early December of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dai was in the early November. After Qin Shihuang unified six countries, it was first new year's day in early October. In the first year of emperor Tai Wu, Emperor Sima Qian set up the "beginning of the calendar" in the first year of the early Qing Dynasty. This is the first day of the lunar new year, which is also called the "Xia calendar". The founding of the Republic of China, Sun Zhongshan in order to "take the summer Zheng, so shun the countryside; from the Western calendar, so statistics", set the beginning of January (New Year's day) for the Spring Festival, and the Western calendar (Gregorian calendar) January 1st as the new year. In September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference adopted a resolution: "the annals of the People's Republic of China annals are adopted in the annals of the year." That is, the universal Gregorian calendar of countries all over the world. In order to distinguish the two new years of the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar, and in view of the "spring" in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, just before and after the lunar new year, the year the 1th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar was renamed "the Spring Festival". The Gregorian calendar January 1st was designated as "New Year's Day". Since then, new year's day has become a national festival of joy.

Due to the different longitude positions of countries all over the world, each country has its own time to enter new year's day. For example, Tonga, an island country in Oceania, is located on the west side of the boundary line. It is the first place to start a new day in the world, and naturally it is the first country to celebrate New Year's day. The Western Samoa on the eastern side of the day is the latest place to usher in the new year. China is the twelfth country in the world to usher in the dawn of new year's day.

The origin of new year's day two

Every year in the Gregorian calendar, people call it "New Year's Day" in January 1st. Why is that?

Originally, in Chinese, "Yuan" contains the first and the beginning meaning. "Dan" is a red sun rising from the ground. "Yuan" and "Dan" together are people to welcome the brand new year with vigorous vigour. On this day, China's cities and rural areas are decorated with lanterns and colorful costumes, and many of them are holding huge slogans to celebrate New Year's day to celebrate the new year. But this is not fixed from the beginning.

In calendars, people used to say that the earth rotates around the sun for 1 weeks for 1 years. However, because the earth moves around the sun without a fixed starting point and ending point, the starting and ending points of a year are all artificially prescribed, which results in different calendars. According to legend, the word "New Year's Day" comes from one of the earliest three emperors and five emperors in China. Later, some dynasties changed the date of the new year's day, but in principle, the first day of the year was new year's day. For example, the first day of January was the new year's day in the early days of the Xia Dynasty, but the first in the early December was the new year's day in the early December, and in the early November, it was new year's day. Until Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the great historian Sima Qian and others reformulated the calendar, and stipulated that the first month of the new year was new year's day.

After the success of the revolution of 1911 in 1911, it decided to adopt the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar, so the Lunar New Year's Day was changed to "Spring Festival", and the January 1st of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's day.

Nowadays, most countries in the world regard January 1st as new year's day because they have adopted the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar. However, there are also some countries and ethnic groups whose lunar calendar dates are different because of their local calendar traditions, religious beliefs, customs and seasonal climate. This also makes the world colorful and distinctive.

The origin of new year's day three

Around three thousand and five hundred BC, the ancient Egyptians had changed from nomadic farming to farming on the two sides of the Nile, and their agricultural harvest had much to do with whether the Nile floods. The ancient Egyptians found that the time of the Nile flooding was regular in the long term observation. They recorded the time on bamboo poles every time, and learned that there were about 365 days between the two flooding times. At the same time, it was also found that when the rising tide of the Nile came to the vicinity of today's open city, it was also the time when the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon simultaneously. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians defined the day as the beginning of a year. This is the earliest origin of new year's day.

It is also known as Spring Festival in modern folk custom. Actually, the origins of the year and Spring Festival are very different.

What does "Nian" come from? There are two main arguments in Folk: one is that in ancient times, there was a fierce monster named "Nian". When it came to thirty in the twelfth lunar month, it went to the village to seek food and flesh, and to destroy people. On the night of December 30, Nian arrived at a village, where two shepherd boys were competing for a whip. "Nian" suddenly heard the crack of whip in the air, and ran away with fear. It rushed to another village, and looked at the door of a family with a big red dress. It didn't know what it was, so it quickly turned around and ran away. Later, he came to a village and looked at the door of a family, only to see the brilliant lights inside, which made him dizzy, so he had to slip away with his tail in his hand. Therefore, people know the weakness of "new year", such as being afraid of sound, red and light. They think of many ways to resist it, and gradually evolved into the custom of new year.

Another way of saying is that the ancient Chinese word books put the word "year" in order to show good weather and good harvest. Because Gu Wo is generally cooked once a year. The "year" has been extended to the age of name.

Although the ancient Chinese folk had already had the custom of new year, it was not called the Spring Festival. Because at that time, the Spring Festival refers to the "spring" in the twenty-four solar terms.

The northern and Southern Dynasties refer to the Spring Festival as the whole spring. It is said that the Chinese New Year is officially named as the Spring Festival after the revolution of 1911. In order to distinguish between agriculture and Yang, we had to rename it in the 1th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar as "Spring Festival".