New Year's Day handbook simple and good-looking

New Year's Day handbook is simple and nice:

New Year's Day, is a traditional Chinese festival, the Yuan is the "beginning", the beginning of the number is called "Yuan"; Dan is the "day". Yuan Dan, meaning "initial day". Its earliest appearance in the "Book of Jin": Zhuan Di to the first month of Meng Xia for the yuan, in fact, the spring of the first day of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first day of the first month. That is, the first month is called Yuan, the first day of the year for Dan.

New Year's Day source: New Year's Day in different times, referring to the specific time is not the same. In the Xia Dynasty period of the Xia calendar in the spring of January for the first month; Shang Dynasty period of the Yin calendar in winter December for the first month, the Zhou period of the Zhou calendar in winter November for the first month; the Qin Dynasty period, and winter October for the first month, the first day of October for the New Year's Day, the Han Emperor Wu Di period, the provisions of the spring of January for the first month, the first day of January known as the first day of the New Year's Day, and has been in use until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

New Year's Day to change the date: New Year's Day in China's ancient times, refers to the first day of the Lunar New Year, that is, the day of the Spring Festival. After the Xinhai Revolution, the national government vigorously implement the Western culture, even the calendar also changed. 1912, Sun Yat-sen in order to "line summer, so smooth farming; from the Western calendar, so that the statistics," so ordered to stop using the lunar calendar, and change to the Western countries common AD chronology, that is, the Gregorian calendar. Starting in 1912, China officially began to celebrate New Year's Day.

But New Year's Day on the lunar calendar is a traditional holiday that has been carried on in China for thousands of years, and at first people didn't buy it, but with the National Government's stipulation that New Year's Day should be a holiday involving the government, officials, schools, businesses, and so on, New Year's Day is beginning to be recognized by the people, and it is gradually spreading in the civil society. But at the same time, the lunar New Year's Day was also renamed "Spring Festival". In this way, New Year's Day and the Spring Festival have been preserved and have become the two major festivals in China.

New Year's Day customs: New Year's Day, is the beginning of the New Year, also known as the "new calendar year", "solar year". New Year's Day is also known as the three yuan "year of the yuan, the month of the yuan, the time of the yuan". And the custom of New Year's Day has been inherited.

As early as the Republic of China government, it is stipulated that the government on New Year's Day, New Year's Day government holiday for three days, and the government offices outside the colorful flags to hang, held a celebration. In addition, the school will also be held on New Year's Day, organized by the teachers and students on New Year's Day, the collective salute to the national flag, and then held a variety of games and activities.

New Year's Day has gradually become the celebration of all walks of life, they held a variety of exhibitions on New Year's Day, parades to celebrate the activities. Greeting cards are also sent to friends and relatives.