1. Introduction to New Year's Day
In contemporary times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year (i.e. January 1). Since the introduction of the Western calendar into our country, the term New Year's Day has been exclusively used for the New Year, while the traditional Old Calendar year is called the Spring Festival.
Before this, New Year’s Day always referred to the first day of the lunar year. Yuan means "beginning" and "beginning", and Dan refers to "days". New Year's Day collectively refers to the "initial days", which is the first day of the year.
2. The historical origin of New Year's Day
The term "New Year's Day" first appeared in "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuan took the first month of Mengxia as the Yuan, in fact, the spring of Zhengshuo New Year's Day" In. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jie Ya" in the Southern Dynasty said: "The four qi are on New Year's Day, and Wanshou is beginning today. "Records. The "First Month" entry in Volume 1 of Wu Zimu's "Meng Liang Lu" in the Song Dynasty: "The first day of the first lunar month is called New Year's Day, and it is commonly known as New Year.
The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was first called "New Year's Day". "Yuan" means "beginning" and "beginning", and "Dan" refers to the time of dawn, and also generally refers to the day. New Year's Day is collectively known as the "initial day", which is the first day of the year. The date on which the first day of the first lunar month was calculated was also very inconsistent before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the New Year's Day month and day in the past dynasties are not consistent. The lunar calendar of the Xia Dynasty took Meng Xi month (Yuan month) as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang dynasty took the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou calendar of the Zhou dynasty took the winter month (November) as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchun month (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October as New Year's Day. In the first year of Emperor Taichu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar" and stipulated Meng Xiyue (January) as the first month. The first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar) was called New Year's Day, which was still used until the Qing Dynasty. The last years. But this is the lunar calendar, that is, the lunar calendar or the lunar calendar, and it is not what we call New Year's Day today.
In 1911 AD, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so it follows the agricultural time, and it follows the Western calendar, so it is convenient for statistics", it was decided to use the Western calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar (Western calendar) was the "New Year", but it was not It's called "New Year's Day"
On September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference resolved: "The Chinese People's Republic of China adopts the AD chronological system for its chronological calendar." This is what we call In the Gregorian calendar, in order to distinguish the two new years of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, and because the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar happens to be around the lunar new year, the first day of the first lunar month is renamed the "Spring Festival", and the first day of the first lunar month is designated as the "Spring Festival". "New Year's Day", until now, New Year's Day has become a happy holiday for people across the country.