How do people in China celebrate New Year's Day?

The traditional festival "New Year's Day" in China refers to the first day of the new year, on which people will hold celebrations.

Speaking of the origin of New Year's Day, it actually dates back to the period of Three Emperors and Five Emperors. At that time, Emperor Yao worked hard for the people and did many good things for them all his life. But Yao's son is a scum. Yao didn't pass on the tribe to his son, but chose Shun with noble character and outstanding ability. Before he died, Yao also told Shun to give up his position to someone with both ability and political integrity. After that, Shun gave his seat to Yu, who had made contributions to water control. In fact, these leaders are very kind to the people and have done a lot of good things. Later, people took the day when Shun offered sacrifices to Yao as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day", which is the origin of New Year's Day.

In modern times, that is, 19 1 1 year, when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. From the first year of the Republic of China, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar, and the Gregorian calendar 1 was designated as "New Year's Day", but it was not called "New Year's Day". Later, the government of the Republic of China called the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and the solar calendar 1 day "New Year's Day", which is the origin of modern New Year's Day in China. After the founding of New China, at the first session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, in order to distinguish between New Year's Day and Spring Festival, the country called the first day of the first month in the summer calendar as Spring Festival, while the first day of the first month in the solar calendar was New Year's Day, which became a legal holiday.

So, how did the ancients spend New Year's Day?

We know that in ancient times, there was no need to go to the yamen to pay New Year's greetings, just send blessings to the host. In fact, on New Year's Day, emperors of all dynasties held ceremonies to celebrate and sacrifice, such as offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, hanging Spring Festival couplets, writing the word "Fu" and dancing dragon lanterns. It is also quite grand and prosperous to celebrate New Year's Day in the imperial court, and it is also very lively for ordinary people to celebrate New Year's Day. On the morning of New Year's Day, every family will get up early, then freshen up, put on new clothes, visit relatives and friends and wish each other well.

On New Year's Day, the streets are covered with lanterns and colorful decorations, and various commodities such as hats, jewelry, clothes and toys are placed.