Why is January called January again?

Around 50,000 BC, the ancient Egyptians had changed from nomadism to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile, and their agricultural harvest was closely related to whether there was a flood in the Nile. Through long-term observation, the ancient Egyptians found that the time of Nile flooding was regular, so they recorded this time on bamboo poles every time, and learned that the time interval between two floods was about 3.65 days. At the same time, it was found that when the Nile came near Cairo at high tide today, the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon at the same time. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians set this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of New Year's Day. New Year's Day is a compound word in Chinese, and "yuan" means beginning or first. "Dan" is a hieroglyph, which means that the sun rises from the horizon. The pictograph "Dan" appeared on bronzes in China during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. "Yuan" has the meaning of beginning, "Dan" refers to the time of dawn and also refers to a day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year. The word "New Year's Day" comes from Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya" in the Southern Dynasties: "Four Qi New Year's Day, long life." In the Song Dynasty, Wu's Meng Lianglu recorded the first month: "The first day of the first month is called New Year's Day, commonly known as the first day of the New Year's Day." First of all, this is the first year's festival. "New Year's Day is called" Yuanri "in Shu Shun Dian and" Jacky "in Cui Yuan's Ming of Chai Sanzi in Han Dynasty; In the Jin Dynasty, Yu interpreted Yang Du as ""; The Northern Qi Dynasty called it "Yuan Chun" in Huangxia Ci of Hui Yuan Ge Xiang. Tang Dezong Shili called it "Yuan Shuo" in the poem "Yuan Ri retired from the DPRK to watch the war and return to camp". New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar. There are different names in Chinese dialects, such as "New Year's Day", "Big Day" and "New Year's Day", which are generally called "the first day of the first month". The month and date of New Year's Day in China are inconsistent. Xia Dynasty is the first day of the first month, Shang Dynasty is the first day of December, and Zhou Dynasty is the first day of November. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the first day of October was New Year's Day, and it has not changed since then (Historical Records). In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian founded the "taichu calendar", and once again took the first day of the first month as New Year's Day, just like the provisions of the Xia Dynasty, so it was also called "Li Xia", which was used until the Revolution of 1911. After the founding of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen followed the farming season in order to "do well in summer"; From the Gregorian calendar, so statistics, the first day of the first month (the first day of the New Year's Day) is set as the Spring Festival, and the Gregorian calendar 1 is set as the New Year. 1 On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference passed the Law on the Chronology of the AD, which named the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar1"New Year's Day". In modern times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year. Since the Gregorian calendar was introduced into China, the word New Year's Day has been dedicated to the New Year, and the traditional old calendar year is called the Spring Festival. Before that, New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the Chinese New Year. Yuan means "beginning" and "beginning", but it refers to "heaven" New Year's Day is called "the first day" and 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 is changed to "Spring Festival" and the solar calendar is January. 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 national holiday. China and most countries and regions in the world adopt the Gregorian calendar, and 65438+1 October1is designated 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 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.