A handout about New Year's Day! Be quick!

In contemporary times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year in the A.D. calendar. Since the introduction of the Western calendar into China, the term New Year's Day has been used exclusively for the New Year, while the traditional old calendar year is called the Spring Festival.

Before that, New Year's Day had always referred to the first day of the lunar year. Yuan is the "first" "beginning" meaning, Dan refers to the "day", Yuan Dan together that is "the initial day", but also The first day of the year.

September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the first plenary session of the resolution: "the Chinese people **** and the state chronology using the A.D. chronology", that is, what we call the solar calendar, in order to distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar two New Year, but also in view of the twenty-four seasons of the lunar calendar. "Spring" just before and after the lunar New Year, so the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was renamed the "Spring Festival", the first day of January in the solar calendar as "New Year's Day", so far, New Year's Day has become the national people's The first day of January on the solar calendar was designated as "New Year's Day".

Customs of New Year's Day in different countries

Thailand

The traditional New Year's Day in Thailand, Songkran ("Songkran" is a translation of Sanskrit), is also known as the "Water Festival". "The festival is held from the 13th to the 16th of each year on the Gregorian calendar. During the festival, people carry or carry a huge Buddha statue out, Buddha statue followed by a float, the car stood in makeup "Songkran goddess", groups of young men and women, dressed in brightly colored national costumes, beating long drums, singing and dancing. On both sides of the road where the procession passes by, good men and women walk along the road, using a silver bowl containing water soaked with shell leaves and oozing with spices to throw water on the Buddha statue and the "Songkran Goddess", praying for a happy New Year and good weather, and then people sprinkle water on each other, wishing their elders a long and healthy life, wishing their relatives and friends a lucky New Year, and unmarried young people, men and women, use the water to throw water on the statue. Unmarried young men and women, then splash water to show their love for each other. On the first day of the New Year, Thai people put a basin of water on the window sill and the door, and all families go to the rivers in the countryside to take a New Year's bath. In order to celebrate the New Year, the Thai people held in the scale of the "Elephant Race Conference", the contents of: human elephant tug-of-war, jumping elephants to pick up things, elephant across the human body, elephant soccer, the ancient Elephant Formation show, and so on. It is very exciting and moving.

Japan

Japanese people attach special importance to New Year's Day, every year on December 29 - January 3 for the national vacation. The Japanese call December 31st "Daikichi", or New Year's Eve. On the night of New Year's Eve, the Japanese call it "New Year's Eve", and on New Year's Eve, they pray to the gods for blessings to send away the troubles of the old year and usher in a beautiful new year, which is called "Hatsu Atsui". At midnight on New Year's Eve, temples in cities and towns ring 108 bells to drive away evil, while Japanese people sit quietly and listen to the "New Year's Eve bells," the sound of which signals the arrival of the New Year. People then leave their seats and go to bed, hoping to get a good dream. On the morning of New Year's Day, family members sit together and tell each other the dreams they had on New Year's Eve, in order to measure the good and bad luck. The Japanese call the first day of New Year's Day "Shoichi", and the 1st - 3rd days "Sangaichi". On the first day of New Year's Day, the younger generation must first go to their parents to pay respects to their parents, and then go to the home of friends and relatives to pay respects to New Year's Day. New Year's Day is also a "food" festival, and people of all countries eat their own national food to pray for good luck. In Japan, on the day of the "main day", breakfast is very rich, eating sugar carrots, buckwheat noodles, etc., and drinking tsukudani. Thereafter, for three days in a row, they eat vegetarian, as a sign of piety, and pray for good luck in the coming year. Now most Japanese townspeople have given up New Year's vegetarian uniform habit, instead of "New Year's Eve" to eat a meal of hollow noodles, in order to wish in the new year, health and longevity.

Egypt and

Egypt is an ancient civilization, 40 BC, the Egyptians were able to observe the stars, they found that Sirius and the sun rose together, the Nile River immediately rose. Egypt to the Nile River rise this day as the beginning of the new year, called "rising water new year". The Egyptian Kluts greeted the New Year by placing a table at the door with seven or eight plates of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat grains, as well as small shoots of green plants, which symbolized abundance. The more things were offered to the gods, the greater the harvest of the New Year. The Egyptian New Year falls in the fall, because agricultural production in Egypt begins in the fall.

India

India has a New Year*** for five days from October 31 every year, with New Year's Day on the fourth day. On the first day of the New Year, no one is allowed to be angry with anyone, much less lose their temper. Some areas of India, the morning of New Year's Day, families crying, everyone's face with tears, they to the passing of the years, life is short, with crying to welcome the New Year, is the lament of life. Some areas of the people to fast for a day and a night to meet the new year, from the early morning of New Year's Day until midnight. Because of this strange custom, India's New Year's Day is known as "crying New Year's Day", "fasting New Year's Day". Indians in the New Year's Day before 5 days, all over the Indian epic "Ramayana", (meaning the procession of the Rama), played the epic hero and paper giants "combat", "hero" trigger fire arrow, paper giants will be in the audience's cheers! Before New Year's Eve, every house is decorated with beautiful pictures. On the morning of New Year's Day, people carry small refined lamps and red powder packets, and go out to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly and their friends and relatives. After meeting and saying goodbye, they put red powder on each other's foreheads to express good luck and happiness. Young people put red ink into the water gun, shot to friends and relatives, known as "sprinkle red", said good luck. Indian young people like to meet in the New Year, regardless of familiarity, hand-to-hand combat. The onlookers called the wind to help the wind, often become the object of the girl's pursuit. Indigenous peoples of central India Bohil people, in celebration of the New Year, in the playground erected a smooth and thick wooden pole, the top of the pole has a small bag with gifts, the girls holding the Harvest Bamboo pole to try to block to the pole to climb to the boy guards, the boys are under the pole into a circle, efforts to defend against the girls on the pole-climbing people's attacks until the pole-climbers to win the bag until the victory