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The origin of the New Year's Day Festival New Year's Day is what dynasty, it has what story

In China, the name of New Year's Day, are said to start from the legend of the three emperors one of the five emperors Zhuan Xu, he to the first month of the lunar calendar for the yuan, the first day of the year for Dan. According to the "Records of the Grand Historian": the Xia Dynasty to the first day of the first month for the New Year's Day; the Zhou Dynasty to the first day of November for the New Year's Day; Qin to the first day of October for the New Year's Day. After the Xinhai Revolution, China called the first day of the first month of the Spring Festival, January 1 of the Gregorian calendar called the New Year, not New Year's Day.

Until September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference adopted the use of the A.D. chronology, and only then will be officially designated as New Year's Day on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar