Who can explain the origin of New Year's Day? Are there any festivals in foreign countries on New Year's Day?

The origin of New Year's Day is that after the western calendar was introduced into China, the word New Year's Day was dedicated to the New Year, and the traditional old calendar was called the Spring Festival. Before that, New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the Chinese New Year. Foreign countries have festivals on New Year's Day.

Yuan means "early" and "beginning", but it means "day". New Year's Day is collectively called "the first day", that is, the first day of the year. 1On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference decided that "the people of China and the national calendar should adopt the AD calendar method", which is what we call the solar calendar.

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 as "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as "New Year's Day". So far, New Year's Day has become a happy festival for people all over the country. Celebrating the beginning of the new year and celebrating the new year can be said to be a common custom in all countries and regions of the world.

In China, it is also listed as a legal holiday. China and most countries and regions in the world adopt the Gregorian calendar, and set 65438+ 10/0 as the beginning of the new year, which is called "New Year's Day". 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. For example, Tonga, an island country in Oceania, is located on the west side of the Japanese boundary. It is the first place in the world to start a new day and the first country to celebrate New Year's Day. Western Samoa, to the east of international date line, is the latest place in the world to start a new day. According to the Gregorian calendar, China is the first 12 country in the world to start the New Year.