January 1 of each year is China's legal holiday, new year's day. Everyone can enjoy the legal holiday. Therefore, new year's Day is an important day to celebrate the arrival of the new year. So what does new year's day mean? Why is the first day of the new year called New Year's day? In this article, let's understand why the first day of the new year is called New Year's day.
Because 'Yuan' means the beginning, 'Dan' means that the sun has just come out of the peace line. New year's Day is also known as the 'new calendar year' and the 'Gregorian calendar year'. At the same time, it is also called "three yuan", that is, the yuan of age, the yuan of month and the yuan of time.
The date of the Chinese New Year is different in different dynasties. The Xia Dynasty is set on the first day of January, the Shang Dynasty on the first day of December, the Zhou Dynasty on the first day of November, and the Qin Dynasty on the first day of October. In the first year of the Western Han Dynasty (104 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted the suggestion of Sima Qian and others to use the Taichu calendar, restored the summer calendar, that is, the lunar calendar, took the first month as the beginning of the year, and set the 24 solar terms into the calendar. Later, although the calendars were modified in all dynasties, they were basically based on the Taichu calendar, with the first month of mengchun in the summer calendar as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month as new year's day and new year's day, that is, the first day of the new year.
After the 1911 Revolution, the rule of the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, and Sun Yat Sen established the government of the Republic of China in Nanjing. Representatives of provincial governors held a meeting in Nanjing to discuss the calendar. At the meeting, we reached the "line summer calendar", so it was along the lunar time; From the Western calendar, the consensus of "Statistics" decided to use the Gregorian calendar, customize the "new year" on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, and call the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar the "Spring Festival", but it was not officially named and promoted. On September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference decided: "the year of the people's Republic of China adopts the year method", and confirmed the new year (New Year's day) as China's legal festival.
Celebrating the beginning of the new year and celebrating New Year's Day is a common custom in all countries and regions of the world. In China, it is also listed as a legal festival. China and most countries and regions in the world adopt the Gregorian calendar and set January 1 as the beginning of the new year, which is called 'New Year's Day'.
Due to the different longitude positions of countries in the world, the time of countries is also different. Therefore, the date of 'New Year's Day' is also different. For example, Tonga, an island country in Oceania, is located on the west side of the date line. It is the first place in the world to start a new day and the first country to celebrate New Year's day. Western Samoa, located east of the sun line, is the latest place in the world to start a new day. According to the Gregorian calendar, China is the 12th country in the world to start the new year.