New Year
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Chinese New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar (summer, lunar) calendar. The "Yuan" in "New Year's Day" refers to the beginning, which means the first, and the beginning of any number is called "Yuan"; "Dan", a pictographic character, the upper "day" represents the sun, and the lower "one" represents the horizon. "Dan" means the sun rising from the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of a day. When people combine the two characters "Yuan" and "Dan", it is extended to be the first day of the new year. New Year's Day is also known as "three yuan", that is, the yuan of age, the yuan of month, and the yuan of time.
There are different names in the languages of various parts of the Chinese language. Some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "Datian First Day", some are called "New Year's Day", and they are generally called "New Year's Day". In China, New Year's Day has been included in the statutory holidays. Due to the different longitude positions of countries in the world, the time of each country is also different, so the date of "New Year's Day" is also different. China is the 12th country in the world to start the New Year.
New Year's Day is said to have originated from Zhuanxu, one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, with a history of more than 5,000 years.
Chinese New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the first lunar month in the summer calendar (lunar calendar, lunar calendar). The calculation method of the first day of the first month was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the month and day of New Year's Day in the past dynasties are not consistent. The summer calendar of the Xia Dynasty used Mengxi month (January month) as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang Dynasty took the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou calendar of the Zhou Dynasty took the winter month (November) as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchun month (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October is New Year's Day.
From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Meng Xiyue (January) was stipulated as the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first lunar month in the summer calendar) was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
