What does New Year's Day mean?

New Year's Day, also known as January Day, means the beginning of a year without new moon, new year and harmony. Because the original meaning of "yuan" is "head" and extended to "beginning" The original meaning of "Dan" is also "beginning" /& gt；

New Year's Day is the first day of every new year. "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. "In the cultural relics excavation in Dawenkou, China found a picture of the sun rising from the top of the mountain and clouds filling the air. According to textual research, this is the oldest writing method of the word "Dan" in China. Later, the simplified word "Dan" appeared on the bronze inscriptions in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The word "Dan" is represented by a round sun. The word "one" under "Sun" indicates the horizon, which means that the sun rises from the horizon in Ran Ran. Xiao Ziyun, a literary historian in the Southern Dynasties, recorded in his "Jieya" that "the four spirits live a long life on New Year's Day". It seems that Dan is the beginning of a day and lasts until the first day of the year.

Song Wu's "Liang Lumeng" Volume 1 "First Month" entry: "The first day of the first month is called New Year's Day, and the custom is called New Year's Day." One-year-old festival, this is the first one. "The New Year, the book? Shundian is called Yuanri "; Cui Yuan of Han Dynasty called it "Jacky" in San Zi Ming. In Jin Dynasty, Geng expounded Yang Du Fu and was called "Chen Yuan". 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".

However, the New Year's Day mentioned by the ancients in China is not 1 day in the Gregorian calendar, but the first day of the first month, which is also commonly known as January. The year number in the history of China is not the year of A.D., but every emperor and every dynasty has a separate year, that is, the Lunar Year. The current calendar year is the embodiment of the western calendar. Based on the birth of Christ in 1 year. It was not until after the Republic of China that China gradually changed its calendar to AD. Therefore, the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month in China is more festive than New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar.

There are different names in Chinese dialects, some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "Big Day", and some are called "New Year's Day", generally called "the first day of the first month". /& gt； /& gt；

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. 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 went to the countryside 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) is designated as the Spring Festival, and the Gregorian calendar 1 is the New Year. 1949 On September 27th, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference passed a resolution: "The people of China * * * and the national calendar adopt the AD calendar method. "That is, the Gregorian calendar is used all over the world. In order to distinguish the Lunar New Year from the Gregorian New Year, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the Lunar New Year happens around it, the first day of the first lunar month was renamed as "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar 1 day was designated as "New Year's Day". Since then, New Year's Day has become a national joyful festival in China.

/& gt； In Chinese, "Yuan" means the first and the beginning, while "Dan" means a red sun rising from the ground. The harmony between "Yuan" and "Dan" means that people should greet the new year with vigor. On this day, cities and rural areas in China are decorated with lanterns and festive costumes, and many units hang up huge slogans of "Celebrating New Year's Day" to celebrate the New Year.

But this is not fixed from the beginning. /& gt；

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In the calendar, people are used to calling the 1 period of the earth around the sun 1 year. However, because the earth's orbit around the sun has no fixed starting point and ending point, the starting point and ending point of a year are artificially stipulated, which leads to the inconsistency of various calendars. According to legend, the word "Chinese New Year" comes from Zhuan Xu, one of the earliest three emperors and five emperors in China. He defined the first month of the lunar calendar as "Yuan" and the first day as "Dan". Later, some dynasties changed the date of New Year's Day, but in principle, the first day of each year is still regarded as New Year's Day. For example, the Xia Dynasty regarded the first day of the first month as New Year's Day, but the Shang Dynasty regarded it as New Year's Day. The Zhou Dynasty was 1 1, and the Qin Dynasty was 1. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty that the great historian Sima Qian and others reformulated the calendar, stipulating that the first day of the first month of the first month of each year was New Year's Day, and it has not changed since then. /& gt；

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19 1 1 After the success of the Revolution of 1911, it was decided to adopt the international Gregorian calendar, so the first day of the lunar new year was changed to "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar 1 was called New Year's Day.