The origin of New Year's Day

"Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means dawn. New Year's Day (New Year's Day) is the first day of a year, also known as the "new calendar year" and "solar calendar year". New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan.

In A.D. 19 1 1, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "follow the agricultural season, so follow the western calendar, so do statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used as 19 12), and stipulated that Gregorian calendar 1 was called "New Year's Day", but not "New Year's Day".

There is no specific etiquette on New Year's Day, as usual.

Today's "New Year's Day" is the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference on September 27th, A.D. 1949. When we decided to establish the Republic of China, we also decided to adopt the universal calendar, officially designated the Gregorian calendar 1 as "New Year's Day" and changed the first day of the first lunar month to "Spring Festival".

In modern times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year. In order to distinguish between the two New Year's Days, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar is just around the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was renamed as "Spring Festival", and the Gregorian calendar 1 day was designated as the first day of the New Year's Day, which became a legal holiday and became a happy holiday for the people of the whole country.

New Year's Day-the earliest New Year's Day originated around 50000 BC. The ancient Egyptians changed from nomadism to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile. Their agricultural harvest has a lot to do with whether there is a flood in the Nile.

Through long-term observation, the ancient Egyptians found that the time of Nile flooding was regular, so they recorded this time on bamboo poles every time, and learned that the time between the two floods was about 365 days apart. At the same time, they also found that when the Nile came near Cairo at high tide today, the sun and Sirius just rose from the horizon at the same time.

Therefore, the ancient Egyptians set this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of New Year's Day.