The origin of another name for New Year's Day.

In ancient China, "Yuan" stands for beginning and "Dan" stands for morning. Legend has it that "New Year's Day" originated in Zhuan Xu, and he stipulated that the first month of the lunar calendar is Yuan and the first day is Dan. New Year's Day is a very important festival in ancient times. There are many aliases for New Year's Day, such as Yuanri, Jacky, Chen Yuan, Kainian, Yuan Chun, Shangri-La and Huanian. The word "Chinese New Year" can best embody and summarize people's definition of this day, so "Chinese New Year" is the most common and the longest.

Chinese character meaning, yuan, start. Dan Dawn.

New Year's Day, used in the calendar, the beginning of the year, the first day. For example, the first day of the first month. There are many kinds of calendars. The first day of the year is artificially set. As "Historical Records" said, the past dynasties "changed the new moon to suit the color". December in lunar calendar is ugly month, November in weekly calendar, October in Qin calendar and ugly month in summer calendar.

In the Republic of China, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, the old calendar was abolished and the new calendar was introduced. The new calendar is Gregorian calendar, and Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/is New Year's Day. New Year's Day in the old calendar is called Spring Festival. Start a new calendar and use the year number at the same time, for example, the old first year of Taichu, the second year of Taichu, and the year number is xx year of the Republic of China.

People's Republic of China (PRC) uses the Gregorian calendar. The so-called cancellation of the year number was established in 1 949 1 0/0/0/0/kloc-0, 201910/0/0/0, which marked the seventieth founding of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Yuan has the meaning of beginning, not only at dawn, but also during the day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year, which indicates a new day, a new year and a new beginning. New Year's Day in China always refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar (summer and lunar calendar). The "yuan" of "New Year's Day" refers to the beginning, which means the first. The beginning of each number is called "yuan"; "Dan" is a hieroglyph, with the upper "sun" representing the sun and the lower "one" representing the horizon. "Dan" means that the sun rises from the horizon of Ran Ran, symbolizing the beginning of a day. People put "Yuan" and "Dan" together, which means the first day of the New Year. New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan. Different languages in Chinese have different names, some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "Big Day", and some are called "New Year's Day", which is generally called "the first day of the first month". In China, New Year's Day has been listed as a legal holiday. Because the longitude position of different countries in the world is different and the time of different countries is different, the date of "New Year's Day" is also different. China is the first 12 country in the world to start the New Year.