Is New Year's Day a traditional festival in China?

New Year's Day is not a traditional festival in China.

New Year's Day, namely 1 on the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "Chinese New Year" in most countries in the world. Yuan means "start", and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; New Year's Day means "the first day". "New Year's Day" usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar.

After the Revolution of 1911, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used 19 12) in the first year of the Republic of China, and it was stipulated that Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/0 was called "New Year's Day", but it was not called "New Year's Day". 1949, People's Republic of China (PRC) took 65438+ 10 1 as New Year's Day, so New Year's Day is also called "solar year", "new calendar year" or "Gregorian year" in China.

Legend of New Year's Day

According to legend, in the prosperous time of Yao and Shun in ancient times more than 4,000 years ago, when Yao was in power, he worked diligently for the people and did many good things for the people, which was deeply loved by the people. However, due to his son's incompetence, he did not pass on the position of the leader of the "tribal alliance" to his son, but passed it on to Shun, who has both ability and political integrity.

Yao said to Shun, "You must pass on the throne in the future, and you will be relieved when I die." Later, Shun passed the throne to Yu, who made great contributions to flood control. Yu also loves the people and has done many good things for the people like Shun, and is deeply loved by the people. Later, people took the day when Yao died and sacrificed to heaven and earth and the first emperor Yao as the beginning of the year, and called the first day of the first lunar month "New Year's Day" or "Jacky".

There is also a legend that the first day of the first month (New Year's Day) began in Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors and five emperors, with a history of more than 5,000 years. It is said that this is the origin of the ancient Chinese New Year.