Which traditional holiday is New Year's Day in China?

New Year's Day is a legal holiday in China, New Year's Day is January 1 on the Gregorian calendar, which is also known as New Year's Day in most countries of the world. In fact, from the situation in our country, the word "New Year's Day" in a very early time, the first in the literary works in the "Book of Jin". In the history of China, "New Year's Day" refers to "the first day of the first month". However, it is worth noting that the method of calculating the "first month" was not standardized before the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

So how did New Year's Day come about?

In fact, when it comes to New Year's Day, it actually dates back to the time of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors. At that time, Emperor Yao was a hardworking man who did a lot of good things for the people throughout his life, but Yao's son was a loser, so Yao didn't pass the tribe to his son and chose Shun, who was a person of high moral character and outstanding ability, to be his successor. Before Yao's death, he also urged Shun to pass the throne to someone with both virtue and ability. After this, Shun passed the throne to Yu, who was successful in treating water. As a matter of fact, all these chiefs were good to the people and did a lot of good deeds. Later, people regarded the day when Shun sacrificed Yao as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day", which is the origin of New Year's Day.

Finally, what kind of food is usually eaten on New Year's Day?

In reality, many people think that New Year's Day is imported from foreign countries, but in fact it is not. As a matter of fact, as early as during the Republic of China, the government had already set a three-day holiday for New Year's Day, and colorful flags were hung outside all government offices for the celebration. Apart from that, on this day, New Year's Day parades were also held in schools, where teachers and students were organized to salute the national flag collectively on New Year's Day, and then various games and activities were held. After that, New Year's Day has gradually become a festival for all walks of life, where they hold various exhibitions and parades to celebrate the event. Friends and relatives also send greeting cards to each other.

Today, New Year's Day has also become a legal holiday, usually organized by groups of activities, such as New Year's Day gala, hanging banners to celebrate New Year's Day, or holding group activities. In addition, on New Year's Day, many families will eat soup dumplings, which also symbolizes reunion. Of course, people will also eat dumplings if it is the northern region.

In short, on New Year's Day, people usually eat soup dumplings or dumplings.