What's the difference between New Year's Day and Spring Festival?

The difference between New Year's Day and Spring Festival is mainly reflected in the date. New Year's Day is 1 month 1 day in the solar calendar, and the Spring Festival is the first day of the first month in the solar calendar.

In fact, when it comes to New Year's Day, it actually dates back to the period of Three Emperors and Five Emperors. It is said that at that time, Emperor Yao was diligent and loved the people, and did many good things for the people all his life. However, Yao's son is a loser. He chose Shun, who is noble in character and outstanding in ability, instead of passing the tribe on to his son. Before he died, Yao also told Shun to give up his position to someone with both ability and political integrity. After that, Shun gave his seat to Yu, who had made contributions to water control. In fact, these leaders are very kind to the people and have done a lot of good things. Later, people took the day when Shun offered sacrifices to 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.

In modern times, that is, 19 1 1 year, when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. From the first year of the Republic of China, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar, and the Gregorian calendar 1 was designated as "New Year's Day", but it was not called "New Year's Day". Later, the government of the Republic of China called the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and the solar calendar 1 day "New Year's Day", which is the origin of modern New Year's Day in China.

So, when was New Year's Day designated as a legal holiday?

Actually, it should be 1949, which was on September 27th, 1949. At that time, the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC), and at the same time decided to adopt the universal calendar, namely the solar calendar. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, in order to distinguish between the two New Years, the country renamed the first day of the first month of the summer calendar as the Spring Festival, and the Gregorian calendar 1 1 was the beginning of the New Year, that is, New Year's Day, and included it as a legal holiday. From here, we can know that the Spring Festival is on the first day of the first month in the summer calendar, while the first day of the New Year is on the first day of January in the Gregorian calendar. Of course, apart from the date, the customs of New Year's Day and Spring Festival are also different.