Is New Year's Day a traditional festival? Is New Year's Day a national holiday?

New Year's Day is not a traditional holiday, but a national legal holiday.

In A.D. 19 1 1, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Manchu Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "follow the agricultural season, so follow the western calendar, so do statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used is 19 12), and stipulated that the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/0 1 is called "New Year's Day", but it is not called "New Year's Day".

1 91265438+1October1,the Republic of China was proclaimed, and Sun Yat-sen was appointed interim president in Nanjing. Sun Yat-sen's oath of office ended with "New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic of China". This is the origin of "New Year's Day" in China.

1On September 27th, 949, the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC). At the same time, it also decided to adopt the universal year number method, which is what we call the solar calendar, New Year's Day, which refers to the first day of the year in the western calendar.

In order to distinguish the two New Year's days, namely, the summer calendar and the Gregorian calendar, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms is just around the first day of the first month of the summer calendar, the first day of the first month of the summer calendar was renamed the Spring Festival, and Gregorian calendar 1 day was designated as the beginning of New Year's Day, which became a national legal holiday.

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Traditional festivals in China:

The traditional festivals in China mainly include Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Dragon Head Raising (the second day of February), Social Day Festival (the second day of February), Tomb-Sweeping Day (around the fifth day of April in Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Tanabata (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July and a half (the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month) and Mid-Autumn Festival (the eighth lunar month).

In addition, some of the 24 solar terms are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and winter solstice. These festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations. They are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals.

In addition, the ethnic minorities in China have their own traditional festivals, such as the Water-splashing Festival of the Dai nationality, the Nadam Festival of the Mongolian nationality, the Torch Festival of the Yi nationality, the Danu Festival of the Yao nationality, the March Street of the Bai nationality, the Gewei of the Zhuang nationality, the Tibetan calendar year and the Guowang Festival, and the jump flower festival of the Miao nationality.

Baidu Encyclopedia-New Year's Day