What is New Year's Day?

January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is not considered a traditional Chinese holiday, before China did not use the Gregorian calendar, the Spring Festival belongs to the New Year's Day, of course, is also a traditional Chinese holiday China's New Year's Day from New Year's Day: New Year's Day; New Year China's New Year's Day, according to legend, one of the three Emperors Zhuanxu, more than 3,000 years of history. The term "New Year's Day" first appeared in the poem "Book of Jin": "Zhuan Di took the first month of Meng Xia as the first month of the year, in fact, the spring of the first month of the first month of the year". During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun, a writer and historian of the Southern Dynasties, also wrote in his poem "Jieya" that "New Year's Day of the Four Seasons, the first spring day of all life". Song Dynasty Wu Zimu "Dream Liang Records" Volume 1 "first month" entry: "the first day of the first month, known as New Year's Day, commonly known as New Year's Day. A year of festival order, this is the first." In the Han Dynasty, Cui Yuan's "Inscription on the Hairpin of the Three Sons" was called "Yuanzheng"; in the Jin Dynasty, Yu Emanuel's "Yangdu Fu" was called "Yuanchen"; in the Northern Qi Dynasty, a "Yuanhui Daxiangge Huangxia Rhetoric" was called "Yuanchun"; in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Shi's "New Year's Day" was called "New Year's Day". Tang Dezong Li Shi, "the first day of the retreat to watch the military battles to return to the camp" poem called "Yuan Shuo" China in the excavation of relics of the Dawenkou culture, found a picture of the sun rising from the mountain, the middle of the cloudy picture. It was proved that this is the oldest way of writing the character "Dan" in China. Later, in the Yin and Shang bronze casting inscription, and appeared to be simplified "Dan" hieroglyphic characters. The character "Dan" is represented by the round sun. The character "一" under "日" represents the horizon, meaning that the sun rises from the horizon. The Chinese New Year's Day traditionally refers to the first day of the first month of the summer (lunar or lunar calendar). Yuan is the "first", "beginning" meaning, Dan refers to the "day", Yuan Dan together that is "the initial day", that is, the first day of the year. That is, the first day of the year. There are different dialects in different parts of the Chinese language called "Dainianchuyi", called "Daitianchuyi", called "the first day of the year", generally also called "The first day of the first month of the new year. New Year's Day, "book - Shun Dian" called "yuan day", the Han Dynasty Cui Yuan "three hairpin inscription" called "Yuanzheng"; the Jin Dynasty Yu Elucidation "Yang Du Fu" called "yuan Chen"; the Northern Qi Dynasty a "yuan will enjoy the song of imperial summer rhetoric". The Yuanhui Daxiang song Huangxia speech" in the call for "Yuanchun"; Tang Dezong Li Shi "the first day of the retreat of the dynasty to watch the military battles to return to the camp" in the poem called "Yuanshuo". China's successive generations of New Year's Day month and day is not consistent. Xia dynasty in the first day of the first month, the Shang dynasty in the first day of December, the Zhou dynasty in the first day of November, Qin Shi Huang united the six countries, and the first day of October for the New Year's Day, and since then the successive generations have not been changed ("Records of the Grand Historian"). The first year of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Sima Qian created the "Tai Chu Calendar", which is the first day of the first month of the New Year's Day, and the same provisions of the Xia Dynasty, so it is also known as the "Xia Calendar", has been used until the Xinhai Revolution. The establishment of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen in order to "line Xia Zheng, so smooth farming; from the Western calendar, so the statistics", the first day of the first month (New Year's Day) for the Spring Festival, and the Western calendar (Gregorian calendar) on January 1 for the New Year. In contemporary times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year in the AD calendar. Since the introduction of the Western calendar into China, the term New Year's Day has been used exclusively for the New Year, while the traditional old calendar year is called the Spring Festival. In 1911 AD, the Xinhai Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Representatives of the provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar "New Year's Day". However, it was not officially announced and named at that time. In order to "conduct Xiazheng, so as to comply with the agricultural time, from the western calendar, so as to facilitate the statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (the actual use of 1912), and stipulated that the solar calendar (Gregorian calendar) on January 1 for the "New Year's Day", but did not call it "New Year's Day". Today's "New Year's Day" is the eve of the founding of new China, September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the first plenary session of the resolution: "The Chinese People's Republic of China * * * and the State of the year to adopt the AD chronology," that is, what we call the solar calendar! In order to distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar two new years, and in view of the lunar calendar in the twenty-four solar terms "spring" just before and after the lunar new year, so the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was renamed the "Spring Festival", the solar calendar as "New Year's Day" January 1 Therefore, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was renamed as "Spring Festival", and the first day of the first month of the solar calendar was designated as "New Year's Day". The origin of the earliest New Year's Day about 50,000 years BC, the ancient Egyptians have changed from nomadic farming, settled on both sides of the Nile River, their agricultural harvest and the Nile River whether or not the flood has a lot to do. Ancient Egyptians from the long-term observation found that the Nile River flooding time is regular, they will be this time each time to record on a bamboo stick, from which I learned that the two flooding time between about 3 65 days apart; also found that when the Nile River early tide to today's city of Cairo near the time, but also just the sun and Sirius 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".