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How to do handicrafts or paintings on New Year’s Day

The painting method for New Year's Day is as follows:

Material preparation:

1. Draw three circles on the paper and write New Year's Day inside.

2. Draw ingots and firecrackers.

3. Draw another little girl.

4. Complete the details.

5. Finally apply color and it’s done.

New Year's Day Definition:

New Year's Day (alias: Gregorian calendar year, New calendar year, Gregorian calendar year, English name: New year's day) is a day set by people to celebrate the beginning of the new year. A designated holiday, the date is January 1 in the Gregorian calendar. In China, the word "New Year's Day" has existed since ancient times. It was first seen in the "Book of Jin" in literary works.

Historically, "New Year's Day" refers to the "first day of the first month". The calculation method of "first month" was very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The date of New Year's Day (the first day of the first month) in the past dynasties Not consistent. In ancient times, New Year's Day was also called Yuan Chen. The ancients once regarded the first day of October as New Year's Day. When celebrating New Year's Day, the ancients usually paired it with pepper and cypress wine.

The development and changes of New Year's Day:

1. Traditional New Year's Day:

The traditional Chinese New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first lunar month. The concept of "New Year's Day" has changed in different times and in different Countries also have different specific meanings. The concept of "New Year's Day" in China has always referred to the first day of the first lunar month. The calculation method of "first month" was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the month and day of New Year's Day in the past dynasties are not consistent.

The lunar calendar of the Xia Dynasty used January in spring as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang Dynasty used December in winter as the first month, and the weekly calendar of the Zhou Dynasty used November in winter as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, October in winter was regarded as the first month, that is, the first day of October was New Year's Day.

2. New New Year's Day:

In 1911 AD, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so agricultural time is in line with the Western calendar, so statistics are convenient", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used in 1912), and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar is the "New Year", but it is not called "New Year". New Year".

The representatives of the governors of each province met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was called "Spring Festival" and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day". However, it was not officially announced at the time.