The meaning of yuanri

Noun explanation:

Meta means "beginning" and "beginning" (the first one), and Japanese means "day". Yuan and Japan are called "the first day", which is the first day of the year.

January 21 is an old saying, that is, "the first day of the New Year", which is equivalent to today's "Spring Festival", that is, the Lunar New Year.

Historically, different dynasties in China held different views on "January 1st and New Year's Day":

The first day of the first month of the Xia Dynasty (65438+1in the summer calendar);

Shang Dynasty is the first day of December (65438+ February1);

The first day of November in the Zhou Dynasty (165438+ 10/);

The Qin Dynasty is the first day of October (65438+1October1);

In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Deng Ping and others founded the "taichu calendar" and designated the first day of the first month as New Year's Day, which has been in use ever since until the Revolution of 1911.

After the founding of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen followed the farming season in order to "do a good job in summer"; From the Gregorian calendar, it is convenient to count. "The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, and Gregorian calendar 1 1 is the New Year;

1949 September, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference officially named the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10 1 as "New Year's Day".