New Year's Day is a traditional festival in which country?

New Year's Day is a traditional festival in China.

We are about to enter 20021year. Many friends are looking forward to New Year's Day, which means they can rest at home. Generally speaking, the festive atmosphere is very lively, but do you feel that the atmosphere on New Year's Day is not strong? Why? Isn't New Year's Day a traditional festival in China? So which country's traditional festival is New Year's Day? In which country is New Year's Day? New Year's Day is the origin of which country? Let's follow the Best Bian Xiao to learn more!

New Year's Day was originally a festival in China.

China celebrates the New Year first. 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 "New Year's Day" comes from Zhuan Xu, one of the earliest 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, in Xia Dynasty, the first day of the first month was regarded as New Year's Day, but in Shang Dynasty, the first day of February was regarded as New Year's Day, and in Zhou Dynasty, the first day of October was regarded as New Year's Day. 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.

19 1 1 After the success of the Revolution of 1911, it was decided to adopt the international Gregorian calendar, so the New Year's Day of the lunar calendar was changed to "Spring Festival" and 1 day of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day. When New China was founded, the "AD Chronology Law" was officially used, and the annual Gregorian calendar 1 was designated as New Year's Day.

At present, most countries in the world take 65438+ 10 1 as New Year's Day, because most of them adopt the international Gregorian calendar. However, some countries and nationalities have different New Year's Day dates because of their local calendar traditions, religious beliefs, customs and seasonal climate, which makes the world more colorful and ethnic.

New Year's Day is not a traditional festival in China.

Although New Year's Day is now a national statutory holiday, it is not a traditional holiday, so its status is very embarrassing. The fundamental reason lies in the two era methods of lunar calendar and western calendar.

The western calendar, that is, the AD, also known as the Gregorian calendar, is a chronological method that originated in western society. This is a calendar made by the Italians who reformed julian calendar. On 1582, it was approved and promulgated by the then Pope.

19 12 years, when the government decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar as the national calendar. In terms of calendar, the chronological method of AD is parallel to the chronological method of the Republic of China. At that time, representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to call the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and the calendar day of 1 "New Year's Day", but it was not officially announced at that time.

1On September 27th, 949, the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to adopt the general method of calendar year, so there were two kinds of New Year: Gregorian calendar and Lunar New Year. In order to facilitate the distinction, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar happens around the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first month is changed to "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar 1 is designated as "the first day of the New Year".

For China people, no matter how the calendar evolves, whether it is called New Year's Day or Spring Festival, our own New Year is the first day of the first lunar month every year. No matter how far you go and how tired you are, everyone will rush home for the New Year, which has also formed the most unique phenomenon of Spring Festival travel rush craze in the world. On the first day of the first month, relatives who rarely meet on weekdays will get together. During the Spring Festival, everyone will be full of good hopes for the new year. Perhaps, affection and blessing are the meaning of the festival.

Most countries in the world adopt the international Gregorian calendar, and 1 in October every year is regarded as "New Year's Day". Countries that use the Gregorian calendar take Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/month as New Year's Day, which is a national holiday. In most countries in the world, such as South Korea, Japan and Singapore, it is commonly known as "New Year". Due to the different longitudes and times in different countries in the world, the date of New Year's Day in some countries is also different.