What was New Year's Day called in ancient China?a. New Year's Day b. New Year's Day c. Head of the Year d. Spring Festival

New Year's Day was called New Year's Day in ancient China.

Yuan Dan Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals and a prelude to the Chinese Lunar New Year. In ancient times, New Year's Day was the New Year's Day Festival. People would hold various celebrations on New Year's Day, such as worshipping ancestors, praying for a good harvest and setting off fireworks. At the same time, New Year's Day is also an important political festival, and the emperor would hold a grand ceremony on this day to pray for the peace and prosperity of the country.

Over time, China gradually adopted the Gregorian calendar and made New Year's Day an official holiday. However, since the Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, it is still regarded as the beginning of the New Year. Nowadays, New Year's Day and the Spring Festival have been separated, but they are still an essential and important element of Chinese culture.

New Year's Day celebrated differently in different countries

Western New Year's Day: In 46 BC, Julius Caesar set this day as the beginning of the New Year in the Western calendar, in order to bless the two-faced god "Janus", the god of doors in Roman mythology. "The word "Janus" later evolved into the English word January.

Britain: The day before New Year's Day, every household must have wine in the bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believe that if they don't have any meat or wine left over, they will be poor in the coming year. In addition, the British also popular New Year's "well water" custom, people are striving to be the first to go to the water, that the first to play the water for the happiness of the people, to play the water is auspicious water.

Belgium: In Belgium, the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing in the countryside is to animal New Year. People walk up to cows, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals, and fervently pass on to these living creatures, "Happy New Year!"

Germany: The Germans, on New Year's Day, put up a fir tree and a horizontal tree in every house, with silk flowers tied between the leaves, to show that the flowers are in full bloom and spring is in the air. They are in the midnight of New Year's Eve New Year's Day before the moment, climbed to the chair, the bell rang, they jumped off the chair, and will be a heavy object thrown to the back of the chair, in order to show that to throw off the scourge of the New Year, jump into the New Year. In the German countryside is also circulating a kind of "tree-climbing competition" in the New Year's custom, in order to show the step by step.

France: to celebrate the New Year with wine, people from New Year's Eve began to drink, until January 3 to end. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day is a sign of the new year. Early in the morning on New Year's Day they went out on the street to see the wind to divine: blowing the south wind, the omen of wind and rain, the year will be safe and hot; blowing the west wind, there is a fishing and milking of the harvest; blowing the east wind, the fruit will be high; blowing the north wind, it is a bad year.

Italy: New Year's Eve in Italy is a night of revelry, when the night begins to fall and thousands of people rush out into the streets, lighting firecrackers and fireworks, and even firing live ammunition. Men and women dance until midnight. Families pack up their old belongings and smash things that can be broken in the house. Old pots, bottles and jars are thrown out of the door to show that they are getting rid of bad luck and troubles, which is their traditional way of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - New Year's Day