The origin and customs of New Year's Day

One, the origin of New Year's Day

"Yuan" has the meaning of the beginning, "Dan" refers to the meaning of daybreak. New Year's Day (NewYear's Day, NewYear) is the first day of the beginning of the year, also known as the "new calendar year" "solar year". New Year's Day is also known as "Sanyuan", that is, the year of yuan, the month of yuan, the time of yuan.

In 1911 A.D., Sun Yat-sen led the Xinhai Revolution, overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "line Xiazheng, so smooth farming, from the Western calendar, so the statistics", the Republic of China decided to use the calendar (actually used in 1912), and the solar calendar (Gregorian calendar) January 1 for the "New Year's Day", but do not call it "New Year's Day".

Today's "New Year's Day" is the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC) on September 27, 1949, and also decided to adopt the world's common Gregorian calendar and officially designated January 1 as the "New Year's Day". "New Year's Day", the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was changed to "Spring Festival".

Second, the customs of New Year's Day

Because New Year's Day was born in the Republic of China, and is evolved from the Spring Festival, so, when China just began to celebrate New Year's Day, its celebration of the customs of course, most of them are similar to the Spring Festival, or the Spring Festival is a smaller version.

After all, New Year's Day is not a traditional holiday in China, and although some of the traditional ways of celebrating it are used, such as setting off firecrackers, killing the three living beings, honoring the ghosts and gods, and paying homage to the ancestors, etc., it doesn't seem to take up much of an important position in people's minds. In modern times, the custom of celebrating New Year's Day is even simpler.

Celebration of New Year's Day I:

As all of China and even the whole world knows, many countries have designated New Year's Day as a legal holiday, and take a vacation on New Year's Day. After the founding of New China, it also stipulated New Year's Day as a legal holiday to take a day off.

New Year's Day celebrations two:

Now more common is organized by the group activities, such as New Year's Day gala, hanging celebration of New Year's Day slogans, or hold a collective activity, etc., before there is the organization of the beating of gongs and drums, the collective dance of the nationalities, and now in the television documentaries can be seen to the technological development of today, evolved into the gala and so on.

In recent years, there are even more travel, party and other programs, anyway, New Year's Day is not much tradition, in this day of vacation on the people to play. Even for the younger generation, New Year's Day only means a day of vacation.