Stories about New Year's Day

1, the Chinese New Year's Day story

In the ancient Yao, Shun more than 4000 years ago, when the time of prosperity, Yao reign diligently in the people for the people to do a lot of good things, very much loved by the people, but because of the son of his son is not too talented and not too Cheng Cheng, he did not "tribal alliance" of the leader of the position passed on to his own son, but to the Shun, who has both virtue and talent. Instead, he passed the title of leader of the "tribal alliance" to Shun, who had both virtue and talent. Yao said to Shun, "You must pass on the throne well, so that when I die, I can rest in peace."

Then Shun passed the throne on to Yu, who had done a great job of curing the floods, and Yu did a lot of good things for the people like Shun did, and was very popular among the people. Later, people regarded the day when Emperor Shun offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and the late Emperor Yao after Yao's death as the beginning of the year, and called the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar "New Year's Day", or "New Year's Day".

2, the story of foreign New Year's Day

The earliest New Year's Day from about 50,000 BC, the ancient Egyptians have changed from nomadic to farming, settled on both sides of the Nile River, and their agricultural harvest and the Nile River whether or not the flooding has a great deal to do. Ancient Egyptians from long-term observation found that the Nile River flooding time is regular, they put this time each time to record on the bamboo pole, from which they learned that the two flooding time between about 365 days apart.

At the same time, it was also found that when the Nile's early tide came near the city of Cairo today, it also happened to be the time when the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon at the same time. Thus, the ancient Egyptians designated this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of "New Year's Day".

Expanded Information

New Year's Day was known by a variety of names in ancient times.

1, such as "Yuanchun", "Lefu Poetry Collection": "Showing Rites and Wrecking Music, Concurring with this Yuanchun", meaning: playing music and performing rituals to welcome the New Year.

2, such as "yuan day", "yuan day" Tang Dynasty: Sikongtu: "attentive yuan day, interjection and next year," interpretation: in order to welcome the new year has been busy, the sun sets means that the new year is coming.

3, and then "Yuanzheng". The Han Dynasty Cui Yuan "three hairpin inscription" said: "Yuanzheng on the day, a hundred blessings Kong Ling." Interpretation: On the first day of the New Year, praying for blessings is most effective.

4, also known as "yuan Chen". In the Jin Dynasty, YU Elucidation "Yang Du Fu" said: "The year is only the first day of the year, the yin and yang generation of discipline" meaning: the first day of the year, is the old and the new day.

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