What is the significance of New Year's Day?

What is the significance of the Chinese New Year?

For children, Chinese New Year means that everyone can play together and get red envelopes. For adults, they can finally relax after the Chinese New Year. For migrant workers, they can finally get paid after the Chinese New Year, and they can reunite with their long-lost families and have a happy meal together. For overseas Chinese, after the Chinese New Year, they finally feel the strong China flavor.

The meaning of the new year

"Yuan" means beginning, while "Dan" means that New Year's Day (New Year's Day) is the first day of the year, also called "new calendar year" and "solar calendar year". After the success of the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen designated the first day of the first lunar month as the Spring Festival and the solar calendar 1 day as the New Year. 1On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference decided: "The people of China * * * and the country have adopted the calendar year method", and the New Year's Day (the first day of New Year's Day) was designated as a legal holiday in China. New Year's Day is also a legal holiday in many countries or regions in the world.

What is the meaning of the New Year?

The so-called new year is a new year, a new beginning, and everything is about to become a brand-new thing. Happy New Year!

What is the significance and purpose of the New Year's Eve party?

Entertainment, welcome the new year

Which nationality is the custom of New Year's Day? What does it symbolize?

New Year's Day is a custom of the Han nationality, symbolizing the arrival of the new year.

Significance of New Year's Day: People regard the day when Yao died as the beginning of a year, and call the first day of the first month "New Year's Day" or "Jacky", which is the ancient New Year's Day. On New Year's Day, emperors of all dynasties held ceremonies to celebrate, offer sacrifices and pray for blessings, such as offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, writing couplets on doors, writing blessings and dancing dragon lanterns. People have gradually formed entertainment celebrations such as offering sacrifices to Buddha, ancestor worship, posting couplets, setting off firecrackers, celebrating the New Year, having a reunion dinner and numerous "social fires".

Introduction to New Year's Day: New Year's Day in China always refers to the first day of the first month of the agricultural (summer and cloudy) calendar. The "yuan" of "New Year's Day" refers to the beginning, which means the first. The beginning of each number is called "yuan"; "Dan" is a hieroglyph, with the upper "sun" representing the sun and the lower "one" representing the horizon. "Dan" means that the sun rises from the horizon of Ran Ran, symbolizing the beginning of a day. People put "Yuan" and "Dan" together, which means the first day of the New Year. New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan. Different languages in Chinese have different names, some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "Big Day", and some are called "New Year's Day", which is generally called "the first day of the first month". In China, New Year's Day has been listed as a legal holiday.

"Chinese New Year" is mainly to bless each other in various ways, and the new year card is its main form.

What is the significance of New Year's Day? Introduction of New Year's Day Customs in China

"Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means dawn. New Year's Day (New Year's Day) is the first day of a year, also known as "new calendar year" and "solar calendar year". New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan.

The custom of New Year in China

China pays less attention to New Year's Day than New Year's Day, so the custom of New Year's Day in China is to post "Celebrate New Year's Day".

Three ways to celebrate the new year

Mode 1: It is known throughout China and even the whole world that many countries have designated New Year's Day as a legal holiday. After the founding of New China, it was also stipulated that New Year's Day would be a legal holiday, with one day off.

Mode 2: At present, it is common to organize activities in groups, such as New Year's Eve parties, hanging slogans to celebrate New Year's Day, or holding group activities. In the past, people who organized gongs and drums and danced folk dances collectively can still be seen in TV documentaries. With the development of science and technology, it has evolved into a gala or something. In recent years, there have been tours, parties and other programs. Anyway, there is not much tradition on New Year's Day. You can have a holiday on this day and play as you like. Even New Year's Day only means a day's holiday for the younger generation.

Mode 3: The traditional way of celebrating in China is among the people, especially in the countryside. Every new year's day, every household will set off firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, and worship the gods of all parties, which means family reunion and dinner. As for a more intense way to celebrate, I haven't seen it yet.

What is the significance of New Year's Day to western countries?

"New Year's Day" first came from the west. Around 50,000 BC, the ancient Egyptians had changed from nomadism to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile, and their agricultural harvest was closely related to whether there was a flood in the Nile. The ancient Egyptians discovered from long-term observation that the time of Nile flooding was regular, so they recorded this time on bamboo poles every time, and learned that the time between two floods was about 365 days, that is, one year. At the same time, the ancient Egyptians also found that when the Nile came near Cairo today, the sun and Sirius just rose from the horizon at the same time. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians set this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of New Year's Day.

France celebrated the New Year with wine, and people began to revel in drinking on New Year's Eve until 65438+1October 3. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day indicates a new year. On the morning of New Year's Day, they went to the streets to see the wind direction for divination: the south wind blows, which indicates that the weather will be good and the year will be safe and hot; When the west wind blows, there is a bumper harvest year for fishing and milking; If the east wind blows, the fruit will be rich; When the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.

Switzerland: Swiss people have the habit of keeping fit on New Year's Day. Some of them go climbing in groups, standing on the top of the mountain facing the ice and snow, singing loudly about a better life. Some ski along the long snowy road in the mountains, as if looking for the road to happiness; Some hold stilt walking competitions, in which men, women and children go into battle together and wish each other good health. A few weeks before the ceremony, women were busy making clothes for men. People carefully carved disc-shaped headdresses out of wood, some symbolizing houses, others symbolizing bridges and villages. Anyone who takes part in the celebration is dressed as a woman, symbolizing wealth and kindness. The masks they wear have plump cheeks and are all made of wax. They have a little flower in their mouth and the expressions on their faces are "exactly the same". The colorful headdress is also decorated with the motto of the ancestors.

In the Greek New Year, every family will make a big cake and put a silver coin in it. The host cut the cake into several pieces and distributed it to family members or visiting relatives and friends. Whoever eats the cake with silver coins will become the luckiest person in the new year, and everyone congratulates him.

Germans attach great importance to New Year's Day, which they think is directly related to the luck of the next year. On New Year's Eve, people will light up and set off fireworks to "exorcise evil spirits" and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Before the New Year bell rings, many Germans will climb into chairs. When the bell rings, they will jump down and run behind the chairs to show their disaster. There is also a custom in rural Germany-tree climbing competition. It is said that the higher you climb, the better your luck. The person who climbs the highest every year will be praised as a "New Year hero" and envied by others. Germans also have the custom of wearing new clothes on New Year's Day. They think that everything will be fine with new clothes in the new year. Dressing indiscriminately in the New Year is not smooth all the year round. In addition, they will put some fish scales in their wallets, because fish scales are the mascots of the new year, which indicates that financial resources are rolling in; Many people also nail horseshoes to the wall to "exorcise evil spirits".

In Spain, when the bell at 0/2 o'clock on New Year's Eve/Kloc just struck the first sound, people rushed to eat grapes. If you can ring the bell to eat 12 grapes, it symbolizes peace and happiness every month in the new year. Each grape has different meanings, such as the first "seeking peace", the fifth "harmony", the sixth "refuge" and the seventh. At the same time, most Spaniards will carry a gold coin or copper coin to show good luck.