Today is the first day of the New Year, called "New Year's Day". Although everyone knows that today's holiday is suitable for fun, blessings, red envelopes, and FLAG, many people do not know how the two words "New Year's Day" came from, and some people still think that this word is an imported product from foreign countries, and that New Year's Day is a foreign festival.
In fact, "New Year's Day" is an authentic local goods, local products, Chinese 5,000 years ago began to celebrate New Year's Day.
New Year's Day, literally can be disassembled into "Yuan" and "Dan". Yuan in the ancient language refers to "beginning", that is, the meaning of "first", "dan" refers to the day, which is understood as the first day, the initial day.
The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin: "Emperor Zhao took the first month of Mengxia as the yuan, but in fact, the spring of new Year's Day." "Therefore, New Year's Day originated from one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and has a history of more than 5,000 years today." It should be added here that the Book of Jin is not a "book of the Jin Dynasty", but was actually compiled by Fang Xuanling and others in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the word "New Year's Day" should appear in the Tang Dynasty at the earliest, don't ask you the etymology of New Year's Day, you answer a "Jin Dynasty", then it will be laughed at.
The word "New Year's Day", the southern dynasty literary historian Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya" has: "Four seasons of new New Year's Day, longevity of the early spring dynasty" The Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Record" said: "The new day of the first lunar month, called New Year's Day, is commonly known as the New Year." The first of the year is the first of these years".
Although they are all called "New Year's Day", there is still a big difference between the ancient New Year's Day and today's New Year's Day.
New Year's Day is to measure the time to facilitate farming, so March of each year is the beginning of the new year. Everyone should note that the March here refers to the third month of the lunar calendar, which is often said to be the "lunar calendar". When Yao Shun arrived, in order to commemorate the merits of Yao Shun, people regarded the day when Emperor Shun worshipped Emperor Yao and the gods as the first day of the year, when New Year's Day was not only a simple tool for measuring time, but also had the great significance of "sacrifice".
During the Xia, Shang, and Qin and Han dynasties, although the time of New Year's Day was different (such as the first day of November in the Zhou Dynasty and the first day of October in the Qin Dynasty), and the names were also changing (such as Yuan Day, Kai Nian, and Hua Nian), the custom of commemorating the "first day of the New Year" gradually became a tradition. On this day, people worship ancestors, sacrifice temples, paste Spring Festival, eat rice cakes, and observe the New Year, in countless forms.
The name changes back and forth, and everyone still thinks that the word "New Year's Day" is good. Therefore, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "New Year's Day" as the title of "the first day of the new year" began to be used, and it was used until the Qing Dynasty.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China, China began to adopt the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar chronology, and took January 1st in the Gregorian calendar as the New Year, but this time was not called "New Year's Day". It was not until 1949 that the title of "New Year's Day" as the Gregorian New Year was officially determined, which is the "New Year's Day" we live today. And what about the original "New Year's Day"? It has become our current "Spring Festival".
After talking about China, let's briefly introduce the Western "New Year's Day". In the West, the festival of "New Year's Day" originated in the time of the ancient Roman Caesar, who, in order to pray for the blessing of the ancient Roman door gods, took January 1 as the beginning of the Western New Year and promoted it.
Well, that's it for a brief introduction to "New Year's Day." I wish you all a happy new year, 2020 to get rich, get off the list, lose weight successfully!