When are the American New Year and the China New Year respectively?

American New Year refers to the first day of the year, that is, New Year's Day. There are two versions of China's New Year. According to the Gregorian calendar, the New Year refers to New Year's Day, and according to the lunar calendar, the New Year refers to the first day of the first month.

Because Americans don't attach the most importance to New Year's Day in all festivals, they only take 65,438+0 days off, that is, 65,438 438+ 10/October 65,438+0 every year, but they usually choose to rest on weekends like China.

The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year in China originally came from agriculture. 1949 On September 27th, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference designated the first day of the first lunar month as the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the Lunar New Year.

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After the victory of the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen became the interim president, and announced that the international Gregorian calendar, also known as Gregorian calendar, would be adopted from 19 12, and the annual Gregorian calendar 1 would be designated as New Year's Day.

In order to respect the national customs, Sun Yat-sen renamed the lunar calendar (summer calendar) as the lunar calendar, and named the first day of the first lunar month as the Spring Festival, so as not to confuse the two New Year's days, so the Spring Festival came after this. In fact, there was no such saying in ancient times.

19 14 and 19 14, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beijing submitted a submission to Yuan Shikai: it is planned to designate New Year's Day as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival as the summer festival, Mid-Autumn Festival as the autumn festival and winter solstice as the winter festival. All our citizens have a rest, and civil servants can also have a day off.

The government of the Republic of China stipulated that everyone should celebrate New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar, but the people did not support it. During Yuan Shikai's period, more people celebrated the traditional Spring Festival through legislation. Since then, the Spring Festival has been decided, that is, the Chinese New Year.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-New Year's Day

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival