1. New Year's Day and Spring Festival
We will now make a distinction between New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, which is the first day of the first month of the national calendar, and the Spring Festival which is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.
For us Chinese, the importance of Spring Festival is far greater than that of New Year's Day. But before the Xinhai Revolution, we also had New Year's Day, and starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, New Year's Day was the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Because in ancient times, there was no national calendar, only the lunar calendar.
2. And the present New Year's Day has the present meaning: the first day
New Year's Day, January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as the "New Year" in most countries around the world. Yuan is called "beginning", and the beginning of all numbers is called "yuan"; "New Year's Day" means "the first day". "New Year's Day" usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar
The concept of "New Year's Day" in China has always referred to "the first day of the first lunar month." The calculation method of "New Year" was also very inconsistent before the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the month and day of New Year's Day are not consistent in the past dynasties.
3. The historical process of New Year's Day
1. The summer calendar of the summer period takes spring and January as the first month.
2. The Yin calendar of the Shang period took winter and December as the first month, and 3. The Zhou calendar of the Zhou period took winter and November as the first month.
4. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, winter and October were the first month, that is, the first day of October was New Year's Day.
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6. After the Xinhai Revolution, in order to "go to Xiazheng, so Shunnongshi, from the Western calendar, so it will be counted", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (the actual use is 1912), and stipulated that January 1 of the solar calendar is the "New Year", but it is not called "New Year's Day".
Representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar "New Year's Day", although it was not officially announced at that time.
- Dan is also known in China as the "Gregorian year", "new calendar year" or "Gregorian year".
Click on the following links to learn about the history of the Spring Festival:
https://m.toutiao.com/is/i8qsy1Mh/ - Is the history of the Spring Festival more than 4,000 years, more than 3,000 years, or only more than 100 years? - Today's headlines
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