Ancient people also New Year's Day, but not in the calendar on January 1, the ancient "New Year's Day" refers to which day?

The original meaning of "Yuan" is "head", which is later extended to "beginning", because this day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called Because it is the first day of the year, the first day of spring and the first day of the first month, it is called "Sanyuan"; because it is the first day of the year, the first day of the month and the first day of the year, it is also called "Sanchao"; because it is the first day of the first solstice, it is also called "Yanshuo". Song Wu Zimu in the "Meng Liang Lu" explains: "the first month of the first day, called the new year's day". The Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Characters) explains the word "dan" as "from the sun to see a top, one, the ground." It means that the sun has just risen from the horizon, which means morning. Because it represents the first morning of the year and the first morning of the first month, it is called "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day" respectively.

In addition to the above title, the Spring Festival is also known as "the beginning of the year", "the beginning of the year", "Fang years", "Hua years

In addition to the above, the Spring Festival is also known as "New Year", "New Year", "Founder", "Huayu", etc., in many of these titles to say "New Year's Day" is the most common, the longest.

Because of the different dynastic calendars, New Year's Day is located in different seasons. The ancient Chinese calendar is a yin and yang calendar, need to take into account the position of the sun and the moon, so to determine the new year's day, need to first determine that it is in a certain season, and then selected and the season is close to the first month as the new year's day. Because a year and 12 lunar parallel is not equal, the difference is about 11 days, so every three years need to set a leap month to adjust the season. Ancient Chinese astronomers came up with an easy way to determine the relationship between the moon sequence and the seasons, which is to set the moon sequence by the pointing of the handle of the dipper in the evening, which is called the twelfth month of the year. From the north to the east, the ground is divided into 12 directions, in the evening, the handle pointed to the direction, is the month of the moon, the son of the month, the month of ugly, the month of Yin are equivalent to the eleventh, twelfth, the first month of the month.

China is an ancient multi-ethnic country. Different historical periods of different ethnic groups have been based on their own cultural traditions and customs to determine their own New Year's Day, that is, changed to the "first day of the month", the first day of the first month of the time. Zhuanxu Emperor and the Xia Dynasty to the first month of Bengchun for the yuan, that is, the use of the summer calendar Jianyin, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the Shang Dynasty to use the Yin Calendar, the Yin Calendar Jianshou, the first day of December of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the Zhou Dynasty to use the Zhou Calendar, the Zhou Calendar into the son of the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar as the New Year's Day; the Qin Dynasty to use the Qin Calendar, the Qin Calendar Jianhai, the first day of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the pre-Xihan period still uses the Qin Calendar, the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first month of the first month of the first month of the Han Emperor Tai Chou (104 years AD) In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Qin Calendar was still used, but in the first year of the first lunar month (104 AD), Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, he changed to the Tai Chu Calendar, which was created by Sima Qian and Luo Xia Ma-te. Later, except for Wang Mang and Emperor Ming of Wei, who once switched to the Yin Calendar of Jianshou, and the Zhou Calendar of Jianzi in the time of Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty and Emperor Su of the Tang Dynasty, all dynasties used the Summer Calendar until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The term "Spring Festival" had different meanings in different periods of history. During the Han Dynasty, people called the first of the 24 solar terms "Spring Festival". During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people called the entire spring season "Spring Festival".

After the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, the Nanjing Provisional Government, in order to "follow the farming season" and "facilitate statistics", stipulated that in the civil use of the summer calendar, in the government agencies, factories, mines, schools and organizations in the implementation of the Gregorian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, the first day of the first month for New Year's Day. However, the general public called the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as the "solar year", and still called the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as "New Year's Day".

September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference adopted the use of the world's common calendar calendar, the calendar that is the first day of the first month of the solar calendar as New Year's Day, for the New Year; because the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is usually in the spring before and after, and therefore the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the "Spring Festival".