The Origin and Story of New Year's Day

The word "Chinese New Year" has a long history, which was first seen in the literary work The Book of Jin.

At that time, Emperor Yao worked hard for the people and did many good things for them all his life. But Yao's son is a scum. Yao didn't pass on the tribe to his son, but chose Shun with noble character and outstanding ability. Before he died, Yao also told Shun to give up his position to someone with both ability and political integrity. After that, Shun gave his seat to Yu, who had made contributions to water control. In fact, these leaders are very kind to the people and have done a lot of good things. Later, people took the day when Shun offered sacrifices to Yao as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day", which is the origin and legend of New Year's Day.

New Year's Day is a legal holiday in China, and the Gregorian calendar is 1+0. Most countries in the world also call it New Year's Day. In the history of China, "New Year's Day" means "the first day of the first month". However, it is worth noting that before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the calculation method of "the first month" was not uniform.