On the origin of new year's day

New Year's Day is a festival in China, which has been passed down since ancient times. On the Origin and Legend of New Year's Day;

It is said that New Year's Day began in Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors and five emperors, with a history of more than 4,000 years. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin: "The pursuit of the emperor is based on the first month, which actually coincides with the spring of New Year's Day."

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun, a literary historian in the Southern Dynasties, recorded in his poem "Jieya" that "New Year's Day in four seasons, long life in early spring". Wu's Dream in the Song Dynasty said: "The first day of the first month is called New Year's Day, and the custom is called New Year's Day. This is the first one. " Record.

It is called Yuan Shuo in Cui Yuan's Three Zi Ming in the Han Dynasty, Yang Du Fu in the Jin Dynasty, Emperor Xia Fu in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Shi Li's poem "Retire Yuan to Watch the Army Fight and Return to Camp".

New Year's Day in China always refers to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar and lunar calendar). The calculation method of the first day of the first month was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the New Year's Day of the past dynasties is not consistent. Meng Xiyue (1 month) is the first month of the Xia calendar, the twelfth month of the Shang lunar calendar (1February) and the winter month of the week calendar (1 1 month). After Qin Shihuang unified China, Yangchun month (October) was the first month, that is, the first day of October was New Year's Day.

From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that Meng Xiyue (January) was the first month, and Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first month in the summer calendar) was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In A.D. 19 1 1, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Manchu Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling 65438+ 10 1 of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and 65438+ 10/of the Gregorian calendar "New Year's Day", but it was not officially announced at that time.

In order to "follow the agricultural season, so follow the western calendar, so do statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used is 19 12), and stipulated that the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/0 1 is called "New Year's Day", but it is not called "New Year's Day".

1949 On September 27th, the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC), and at the same time decided to adopt the world calendar, namely the solar calendar. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year.

In order to distinguish between the two New Years, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar is just around the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month was renamed the Spring Festival, and the Gregorian calendar 1 day was designated as the beginning of the New Year, which became a national legal holiday.