Is New Year's Day a traditional festival in China?

First of all, New Year's Day is a traditional festival in China. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin: "Emperor Zhuan Xu took the first month as the yuan, which actually happened to be the spring of New Year's Day. Therefore, New Year's Day is indeed a traditional festival in China, not an imported one.

Although the word "Chinese New Year" appeared in the Jin Dynasty, the concept of "Chinese New Year" existed long ago, and it was different from dynasty to dynasty. For example, the Qin Dynasty stipulated that 10 was the first month, so New Year's Day was 10, and Shang Dynasty defined December as the first month, so December 1st was New Year's Day. Now January is designated as Jacky, which was formulated after the establishment of the Han Dynasty.

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 every number on New Year's Day 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.

After the Revolution of 1911, the new calendar was introduced to China. Some people have suggested that "it is summer, so it is suitable for farming, so it is counted from the western calendar". In order to distinguish these two times, the day of 1 in the new calendar was designated as the first day of New Year's Day, but it was called New Year at that time, and the first day of the first lunar month was the Spring Festival. It was not until September 27th, A.D. 1949, the eve of the founding of New China, that China decided to adopt the universal method of the A.D. calendar, which is what we call the Gregorian calendar. Since then, New Year's Day is the first day of the Gregorian New Year.

Different languages in Chinese also 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.