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New Year's Day is a Chinese holiday or Western holiday

First of all, New Year's Day is a traditional Chinese holiday, the word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Zhuan Di to the first month of the first month of Meng Xia for the yuan, in fact, the spring of New Year's Day of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month. It can be seen that New Year's Day is indeed a traditional Chinese holiday, and not imported.

The word "New Year's Day" appears in the Jin Dynasty, but the concept of New Year's Day is very early, and each dynasty is different, such as the Qin Dynasty on the provision of October as the first month, then New Year's Day is October 1, the Shang Dynasty, when the definition of the first month of December, then the first day of December is the New Year's Day, and the current January is set as the first year is the establishment of the Han Dynasty after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, and since then, January has been the first month, and has been used until now. Since then, January has been the first month, and has been used until now.

Chinese New Year's Day traditionally refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. "New Year's Day" of the "yuan", refers to the beginning, is the first meaning, New Year's Day, the beginning of the number called "yuan"; "Dan", hieroglyphic character, the first month of January has been in use since then. ", hieroglyphic character, above the "day" on behalf of the sun, below the "one" on behalf of the horizon. "Dan" means the sun rising from the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of the day. People combine the words "yuan" and "dan" together, and it is derived as the first day of the New Year. New Year's Day is also known as "Sanyuan", i.e., the first day of the year, the first day of the month, and the first day of the hour.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the new calendar was introduced into China, and some people suggested that "the summer is the right time, so smooth agricultural time, from the western calendar, so the statistics", in order to distinguish between the two times, the new calendar on January 1 as New Year's Day, but at that time, it was called the New Year, and the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar for the Spring Festival. Until September 27, 1949, on the eve of the founding of the new China, China decided to use the world's common AD chronology, that is, what we call the Gregorian calendar, since then New Year's Day is the first day of the Gregorian New Year.

In the Chinese language around the language there are different ways to call, there is called "Dainianchuyi", there is called "Daitianchuyi", there is called "the first day of the year", generally also called "The first day of the first month". In China, New Year's Day has been included as a legal holiday. The date of New Year's Day varies from country to country due to the different longitude positions and time of day in each country. China was the 12th country in the world to start the New Year.