Is New Year's Day a national holiday?

New Year's Day is a national statutory holiday.

Every year, New Year's Day in Gregorian calendar is 1, and national legal holidays refer to the days when the state stipulates holidays. The legal holidays in China are New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. Among them, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day and National Day are free, but expressway on New Year's Day is not.

New Year's Day, commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world, is the first day of the Gregorian New Year. It is said that New Year's Day began in Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors and five emperors, with a history of more than 5,000 years. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin: "The pursuit of the emperor is based on the first month, which actually coincides with the spring of New Year's Day." In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun, a literary historian in the Southern Dynasties, recorded in his poem "Jieya" that "New Year's Day in four seasons, long life in early spring".

What's the difference between New Year's Day and Spring Festival? New Year's Day is one of the traditional festivals in China. Long ago, the date of New Year's Day in ancient times was the lunar calendar, and the date of New Year's Day in different dynasties was different. At that time, the Spring Festival and New Year's Day fell on the same day.

In modern China, New Year's Day refers to the first day of a new year, which is 65438+ 10/on the Gregorian calendar every year. It is a popular festival in many countries. Is New Year's Day a traditional festival in China? Some people think that New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar is not a traditional festival in China. Because the Gregorian calendar was not used in China before 1920, New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar is not a traditional holiday in China, but a legal holiday in China, so we will have a holiday on New Year's Day.