The Origin of New Year's Day (Simple)

Every year, the Gregorian calendar 65438+1 October1is New Year's Day, "Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means day, that is, "the day when we first met, the first day of a new year". Now New Year's Day is September 27th. 1949. When the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC), it also decided to adopt the world calendar, that is, the solar calendar. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year.

The "yuan" on New Year's Day refers to the beginning, which means first, and 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.

Custom of new year's day

Since New Year's Day was born in the Republic of China and evolved from the Spring Festival, when China just started to celebrate New Year's Day, its customs and habits were of course mostly similar to the Spring Festival, or a scaled-down version of the Spring Festival.

After all, New Year's Day is not a traditional festival in China. Although it has followed some traditional ways of celebration, such as setting off firecrackers, killing Sansheng, worshipping ghosts and gods, and offering sacrifices to ancestors, it has not been seen in people's minds how important it will be.

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Legend of New Year's Day

Legend has it that during the prosperous period of Yao and Shun in ancient times more than 4,000 years ago, when Emperor Yao was in power, he worked diligently for the people and did many good things for the people, which was deeply loved by the people. However, due to his son's incompetence, he did not pass on the throne of "emperor" to his son, but passed it on to Shun, who has both ability and political integrity. Yao said to Shun, "You must pass on the throne in the future, and you will be relieved when I die."

Later, Shun passed the throne to Yu, who made great contributions to flood control. Yu also loves the people and has done many good things for the people like Shun, and is deeply loved by the people. Later, after Yao's death, people took the day of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and the first emperor Yao as the beginning of the year, and called the first day of the first month "New Year's Day" or "Jacky", which was the ancient New Year's Day.

Baidu Encyclopedia-New Year's Day