Ancient New Year's Day

The origin of ancient New Year's Day was in ancient China, and New Year's Day was not on January 1st of the Gregorian calendar. From the first day of the twelfth lunar month in Yin to the first day of the first lunar month in Han, there have been many repeated changes. At the beginning of the Republic of China 19 12, 1 When Sun Yat-sen took office as interim president in Nanjing, for the convenience of statistics, the first day of the first lunar month was designated as the Spring Festival, and the Gregorian calendar was changed to 1, which was called the first New Year's Day, but it was still not called New Year's Day. Until the liberation, the central people's government promulgated the unified use of national statutory holidays and anniversaries, designated the Gregorian calendar 1 as New Year's Day, and decided to have a national holiday on this day. At the same time, in order to distinguish the two New Years, and considering that 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 called the Spring Festival.

Yuan on New Year's Day means beginning, which means first. The beginning of each number is called Yuan. Dan, pictographic, the upper sun represents the sun and the lower represents the horizon. The sun rises from Ran Ran on the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of a day. When people combine the words "Yuan" and "Dan", it is extended to the first day of the New Year. New Year's Day is also called three yuan, that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan. The word "Chinese New Year" comes from three emperors and five emperors. The Book of Jin, written by Tang Fang and others, uploaded: Emperor Zhuan Xu took the first month as the yuan, which was the Spring of New Year's Day. That is, the first month is Yuan and the first day is Dan. Lan Ziyun, a native of the Southern Dynasties, once wrote the poem "Jieya", which also said: Four Qi New Year's Day, a long life begins to appear.

There is another legend in the legend of ancient New Year's Day. It was the heyday of Yao and Shun more than 4,000 years ago. During Yao's reign, he worked hard for the people and did many good things for the people, which was deeply loved by the people. But because his son was incompetent, he passed the throne of the emperor to Shun, who had 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 New Year's Day, which was the ancient New Year's Day. On New Year's Day, emperors of all dynasties held ceremonies of offering sacrifices to gods, ancestors, couplets on doors, writing blessings and dancing dragon lanterns, and people gradually formed entertainment and celebrations such as offering sacrifices to buddhas, offering sacrifices to ancestors, putting up couplets, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year, having family reunion dinners and numerous community fires. Xin Lan, a poet in the Jin Dynasty, once wrote the poem "Jacky": Jacky began at the Festival of the Order, and Jiaqing began here. Salty play for a thousand years, small big fun. Describe the celebration of New Year's Day.