The origin of New Year's Day

The origin of New Year's Day

"Yuan" means the beginning, and "Dan" means dawn. New Year’s Day (New Year) is the first day of the year, also known as the “New Year” and “Gregorian Year”. New Year's Day is also called "Three Yuan", which is the Yuan of the year, the Yuan of the month, and the Yuan of the hour.

In 1911 AD, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so it follows the agricultural time, and it follows the Western calendar, so it is convenient for statistics", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) was the "New Year", but it was not It's called "New Year's Day".

The etiquette on New Year’s Day is not the same as usual.

The "New Year's Day" mentioned today is the first plenary meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on September 27, 1949. While deciding to establish the People's Republic of China, it also decided to The world-wide AD calendar was adopted, and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was officially designated as "New Year's Day", and the first day of the first lunar month was changed to "Spring Festival".

In modern times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year. In order to distinguish the two new years of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, and because the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar happens to be before and after the lunar new year, the first day of the first lunar month is renamed the "Spring Festival", and January 1 of the solar calendar is designated as the new year. "New Year's Day" began and was included as a legal holiday and became a happy festival for people across the country.

New Year's Day - The earliest origin of New Year's Day was around 50,000 BC. The ancient Egyptians had changed from nomadic herding to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile River. Their agricultural harvests were closely related to whether the Nile River flooded. .

The ancient Egyptians discovered from long-term observations that the Nile River flooded at regular intervals. They recorded the time on bamboo poles each time, and learned from this that the approximate intervals between the two flooding times were 365 days, and it was also discovered that when the first rising tide of the Nile River reached today's Cairo city, it happened to be the time when the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon at the same time.

So the ancient Egyptians designated this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of "New Year's Day".