"Yuan" means the beginning, and "Dan" means the time of daybreak, which is also commonly referred to as daytime. New Year's Day is the first day of the year. The term "New Year's Day" first came from a poem by Xiao Ziyun (萧子云), a native of the Southern Dynasties, which reads, "The new New Year's Day is the first day of the year, and the first day of the year is the first day of all life." Song Dynasty Wu Zimu "Meng Liang Record" Volume 1 "first month" entry: "the first day of the first month, called the new year's day, commonly called the new year. This is the first of the year's festivals." In the Han Dynasty, Cui Yuan's "Inscription on the Hairpin of the Three Sons" was called "Yuanzheng"; in the Jin Dynasty, Yu Emanuel's "Yangdu Fu" was called "Yuanchen"; in the Northern Qi Dynasty, a poem entitled "Yuanhui Daxiangge Huangxia Rhetoric" was called "Yuanchun"; and in the poem "Retiring from the court on the first day of the new year, observing the military battles and returning to the camp," Tang Dezong's Li Shi was called "Yuanshuosuo". ". Historically, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar, lunar calendar). There are different dialects in the Chinese language, called "Dainianchuyi", called "Daitianchuyi", called "the first day of the year", generally called "the first day of the first month".
The origin of New Year's Day
Summer Dynasty in the first day of the first month, the Shang Dynasty in the first day of December, the Zhou Dynasty in the first day of November, the first emperor of Qin united the six countries and the first day of October for the New Year's Day, and since then, the generations have not changed. In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", which is the first day of the first month of the New Year's Day, the same as the Xia Dynasty, so it is also known as the "Xia Calendar", which has been used until the Xinhai Revolution. In 1911 AD, Sun Yat-sen led the Xinhai Revolution, overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "line Xia Zheng, so smooth farming, from the Western calendar, so the statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the calendar (actually used in 1912), and the provisions of the calendar on January 1 for the "New Year", but not called "New Year's Day New Year's Day" was not called "New Year's Day". Today's "New Year's Day" is the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC) on September 27, 1949, at the same time, it also decided to adopt the world's common Gregorian calendar and officially designated January 1 as "New Year's Day". "The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was changed to "Spring Festival". Nowadays, most countries in the world celebrate January 1 as New Year's Day every year because they mostly adopt the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar. But there are some countries and nationalities due to local calendar traditions and religious beliefs, customs, seasons and climatic differences, and therefore their New Year's Day date is not the same, which also makes the world colorful, more national characteristics.
New Year's Day Couplets
The yellow warbler is singing in the green willow, and the purple swallow is cutting the spring breeze
Spring flowers contain smiles, and firecrackers increase the sound of joy
A year passes through the world, and all the families are rich, and people meet the year of the year, and all are happy
The spring rain moistens all the things, and red plums embroider thousands of mountains
Danfeng presents the good luck of dragons, and red peaches celebrate the year of the apricot, welcoming the spring
He Shun has hundred of good lucks, and peace and security are worth a thousand golds
Hundreds of years of contemporary good Thousands of years of rivers and mountains are new today
Spring couplets sing the song of peace and prosperity of the people and the country, and the character of joy is a pair of flowers and the moon is full
Spring is filled with a hundred flowers in the world, and the seasons of good fortune in the courtyard
Five shifts divided into two years, and every year, one night, and even two years, and every year, as you want it to be
Humans and horses have been dusted off, and foreigners are vibrant, and the Chinese are marking the history of the world, and the jinx sheep have opened up to the world, enriching the people, and clearing the government and showing a new chapter
We are in a good position. The door welcomes spring, summer, autumn and winter blessings, and the household receives wealth from the southeast, northwest and north
New Year's Day customs in various countries
The new year always brings good wishes to people. On this day of old and new, people from all over the world welcome the New Year in their own unique and distinctive ways. Among them, there are these countries to celebrate the most peculiar customs: such as Belgium's "to the animals to pay New Year's Day". In the Belgian countryside, the morning of New Year's Day, people get up and run to the cattle, sheep, horses, dogs, cats and other animals, to them to pay tribute to the New Year. Animals are friends of mankind, a year, the animals have worked hard, so to pay tribute to them, wish them a happy new year! Brazil's "New Year's Day", Brazilian people in rural areas on New Year's Day, when they meet, must pull each other's ears. Paraguay's "do not move fireworks to eat cold food", Paraguayans in the first five days of the new year, from the head of state, down to the ordinary people, do not move fireworks, only eat cold food, until the New Year's Day zero hour bell ringing before the fire to cook food, to celebrate New Year's Day. More North Korea's "burn hair New Year's Day", in North Korea, New Year's Day dusk, every family should be collected during the year to shed hair, all burned. It is said that burning the hair can make the whole family safe in all seasons.
Tianjia New Year's Day
Meng Haoran
Last night the bucket returned to the north, and today the year rises to the east.
I am already strong in my years, but I am still worried about farming without pay.
The mulberry field is the place for my father to plow, and my hoe is the place for the shepherd boy to follow.
The weather is so good that I can say, "This is a good year.