​New Year's Day, which is January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, is the "New Year" commonly known by most countries in the world. Yuan means "beginning", and the beginning of all numbers is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; "New Year's Day" means "initial day".

Development and changes on New Year's Day

Chinese New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the first month of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar, lunar calendar). The term "New Year's Day" recorded in existing documents first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuan took the first month of Meng Xia as the Yuan, in fact, it was the spring of New Year's Day in Zhengshuo." The calculation method of the first day of the first month was also very different before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Unified. Therefore, the month and day of New Year's Day in the past dynasties are also not consistent. The Xia calendar of the Xia Dynasty uses the Mengxi month (January) as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang Dynasty uses the twelfth lunar month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou Dynasty's weekly calendar uses the winter month (November) as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, Yang Chunyue (October) was used as the first month, that is, the first day of October as New Year's Day.

Chinese New Year's Day Customs and Culture

Since New Year's Day was born during the Republic of China and evolved from the Spring Festival, when China just started celebrating New Year's Day, the customs and customs of celebration were of course similar to the Spring Festival, or a reduced version of the Spring Festival. Now let’s welcome the new year with New Year’s party, New Year’s activities, New Year’s Eve and other programs.

The coming of New Year's Day represents the end of the year and the coming of a new year. All the good and bad in the past have become the past, and a new journey will be ushered in

Shanle is here to wish you all a happy New Year's Day, everything goes well in the new year, and a happy life.

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