Before that, New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the Chinese New Year. Yuan means "early" and "beginning", but it means "day". New Year's Day is called "the first day" and is the first day of the year.
1On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference decided that "the people of China and the national calendar should adopt the AD calendar method", which is what we call the solar calendar. In order to distinguish between the two New Years, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar is just around the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month is changed to "Spring Festival" and the solar calendar is January.
Celebrating the beginning of the new year and celebrating the new year can be said to be a common custom in all countries and regions of the world.
In China, it is also listed as a national holiday. China and most countries and regions in the world adopt the Gregorian calendar, and set 65438+ 10/0 as the beginning of the new year, which is called "New Year's Day".
Because the longitude position of different countries in the world is different and the time of different countries is different, the date of "New Year's Day" is also different. For example, Tonga, an island country in Oceania, is located on the west side of the Japanese boundary. It is the first place in the world to start a day and the first country to celebrate New Year's Day. Western Samoa, to the east of international date line, is the latest place in the world to start a new day. According to the Gregorian calendar, China is the first 12 country in the world to start the New Year.
New Year's Day celebrations around the world:
Thailand
Thailand's traditional New Year, namely Songkran Festival, is also called Songkran Festival, which is based on the Gregorian calendar.
Every April 13 to April 16. During the festival, people travel with giant Buddha statues, which are carried by cars and followed by floats.
On the bus stood the "goddess Gan Song" in makeup, and groups of young men and women, dressed in colorful national costumes, drummed on the long drums.
Singing and dancing. On both sides of the road where the parade passed, kind men and women lined up on both sides of the street, filled with silver bowls soaked in scallops.
Spiced water is poured on Buddha statues and "Gan Song Goddess" to pray for a happy New Year and good weather, and then people sprinkle water on each other.
Happy young men and women wish their elders a long and healthy life, wish their relatives and friends a happy New Year, and splash water to show their love for each other.
Admiration. On the first day of the new year, Thais put a basin of clear water on the windowsill and at the door, and every household has to go to the riverside in the suburbs.
Take a bath in the new year. In order to celebrate the New Year, Thais will hold a large-scale "Elephant Race Conference", which includes: tug-of-war between people and elephants, jumping like elephants to pick up things, and elephants.
Cross-person, elephant football match, ancient elephant array performance, etc. It's wonderful and touching.
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Japanese people pay special attention to the New Year, and every year 65438+February 29th-65438+1October 3rd is a national holiday. The Japanese name is 65438+February 3 1 ".
"Big black day, that is, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, the Japanese call it "New Year's Eve". When they do this, they pray to God for the TOEFL test and send them away.
The troubled old year ushered in a beautiful new year, known as the "first idea." At midnight on New Year's Eve, temples in urban and rural areas rang bells 108 respectively.
In order to exorcise evil spirits, the Japanese sit quietly and listen to the "bell except night", and the stop of the bell means the arrival of the new year. People leave their seats to go to bed.
I hope to have a good dream. On New Year's morning, families sit around and tell each other about their dreams on New Year's Eve to test good luck or bad luck. Japanese people call it New Year.
One is "Zhengri". 1-3 is "Three Congratulations Day": On Sunday, the younger generation must pay a New Year call to their parents, greet them and then go.
Relatives and friends pay New Year greetings, and the Chinese New Year is still a "eating" festival. People in all countries pray for good luck by eating their own food. Japanese
On "Zhengri" day, breakfast is very rich, with sugar, buckwheat noodles and Tu Su wine. After that, I ate for three days.
Simple, as a sign of piety, pray for good luck in the coming year. At present, most urban people in Japan have given up vegetarian food in the new year and changed to "eat at night".
Have a hollow noodle and wish you a long and healthy life in the new year.
Edge
Egypt is an ancient civilization. In 40 BC, Egyptians were able to observe the stars. They found Sirius rising with the sun.
The Nile water rose immediately. Egypt regards the day when the Nile rises as the beginning of the new year, which is called the "Rising Water New Year". Egyptian
People in Croute put a table at the door to welcome the New Year. There are seven or eight plates on the table with soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat.
There are also many small buds of green plants, which symbolize abundance. The more you give to God, the more you will get in the new year. New Year in Egypt
Autumn, because agricultural production in Egypt begins in autumn.
Yindu
In India, New Year's Day begins on June 65438+1October 3 1, and the fourth day is New Year's Day. On the first day of the new year, no one is allowed to be angry with others.
Don't lose your temper. In some parts of India, on the morning of the New Year's Day, every family kept crying, and everyone's face was covered with tears.
Life is too short to greet the New Year in tears, which is a sigh of life. In some areas, people fast for a day and a night to welcome the New Year.
From the wee hours of New Year's Day to midnight. Because of this weird custom, New Year's Day in India is called "Crying New Year's Day".
Fasting on New Year's Day. During the first five days of the New Year in China, Indians will perform the Indian epic Ramayana everywhere.
), play the hero in the epic and "fight" with the paper giant. The "hero" triggers the burning arrow, and the paper giant is in the joy of the audience.
There is fire in the voice. Before New Year's Eve, various beautiful pictures are posted in front of every household. On the morning of New Year's Day, people carry exquisite dishes.
Deng, with a red and pink bag, went out to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, relatives and friends. After meeting and congratulating each other, red powder will be painted on each other's foreheads to show good luck.
Good luck, look up and see happiness. Young people put red ink into a water gun and shoot it at relatives and friends, which is called "sprinkling red", indicating good luck.
Indian youth like to meet and fight with their bare hands during the New Year, whether they are familiar with it or not. Watching and cheering is often the pursuit of girls.
The object of. To celebrate the New Year, the Bokhir people, an indigenous people in central India, erected a smooth and thick wooden pole on the playground.
There is a small bag full of gifts. The girls try their best to stop the boys from climbing the pole with straw, while the boys are under the pole.
Form a circle and try to stop the girl from attacking the pole climber until the pole climber wins the small bag.
Korean (language)
Like China, North Korea has the custom of stick grilles and Fu Tao in the New Year. Koreans put up couplets in every household during the New Year.
And new year pictures. Some people stick portraits of birthday girls or fairies on their doors, praying for God's blessing, driving away ghosts and giving people happiness. New Year's Day
Ming, people put some money into the tied scarecrow in advance on New Year's Eve and throw it at the crossroads to show evil spirits and welcome good luck.
With the revival of dusk, people burn the hair that the whole family lost for a year and wish their families peace in the four seasons. During the Spring Festival, Korean women
Women wear new clothes. On New Year's Day, girls will wear a hemp hat called a "blessing towel" and colorful and patterned clothes.
Swing competition. They aimed at a tree flower to see who could kick it or bite it first. Some people hang bronze bells on high places and touch them first.
Whoever rings the bell is the winner. During the New Year, Koreans must not only enjoy delicious food and wine, but also make a glutinous rice with pine nuts and chestnut powder.
Jujube paste and honey, etc. It is cooked into fragrant rice similar to our country's eight-treasure rice to show that family members are prosperous and life is like honey.
A little sweet.
Singapore
Get up early on New Year's Day and happily get a "red envelope" (lucky money) from your elders. In the new year, there is a community lion dance.
The dragon dance team performed along the street. Men, women and children are dressed in costumes and visit relatives and friends with gifts. During the Spring Festival, people like to eat fried glutinous rice and brown sugar.
Turn into a sweet rice cake.
British state
In Britain, although New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar is not as grand as Christmas, it is still celebrated on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day according to local customs.
Show various celebrations to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. On New Year's Eve, English people often go out to visit with cakes and wine. They don't knock.
I went straight to my relatives and friends' house. According to British custom, after the 1001 night of New Year's Eve, the first person who steps into the house indicates a new one.
A year of luck. If the first guest is a man with dark hair, or a happy, happy and rich person, the host will be very lucky all the year round.
Good luck. If the first guest is a woman with light yellow hair, or a sad, poor and unfortunate person, the host will change to a new one.
If you are unlucky in the middle of the year, you will encounter difficulties and disasters. People who visit relatives and friends' homes on New Year's Eve should stir the fire in the fireplace before talking.
Bless the host to "open the door". Most New Year celebrations in Britain are held on the bonfire night on New Year's Eve, and the "welcome banquet" is one of them.
This kind of banquet is divided into "family banquet" and "group banquet". Banquets usually start at 8: 00 pm on New Year's Eve and last until the early morning of New Year's Day.
End. There are all kinds of wine, food and snacks at the banquet for people to drink all night. At midnight, people turn on the radio.
Machine, listen to the church New Year bell, when the bell rings, people are beaming, toasting, cheering and singing "past!
Sunshine. " The "New Year's Eve Dance" is another celebration. Local hotels and dances, night arrival. People wear holiday clothes.
Dressed up, they came to these beautifully decorated dance halls from all directions and danced in beautiful music, thousands of them.
Crowds also gathered in various squares, singing and dancing around the fountain and the statue of cupid in the center of the square, and reveling. TV station
It is also broadcast live in the square, so that people who "keep the age" can also enjoy the joy.
Germany
There is a week before and after the German New Year celebration. During this period, every household should put a fir tree and a horizontal tree with leaves tied together.
Silk flower is full of flowers, which means spring. Germans climbed into chairs at midnight on New Year's Eve, just before the New Year. As soon as the bell rings,
They jumped up from their chairs and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they had got rid of the disaster and jumped into the new year. The children formed a band and put on new clothes.
Clothes, with harmonica and accordion, lined up to play in the street. The adults held colorful flags and shouted and sang behind them to celebrate the New Year.
German women will improvise comedy sketches with the theme of family in the New Year. There is a custom of celebrating the New Year in rural Germany-
-"Tree Climbing Competition", in which boys climb along bare trees. The first name is "New Year Hero" to show a better life.
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Iran
Iran has an Islamic calendar, and the seasons and months are not fixed. In Iran, celebrating the New Year means celebrating the arrival of spring.
Often in the late March of the solar calendar, when the New Year is celebrated for a week, people flock to the street to have a "bonfire"-"night fire", and then
The whole family jumped down from the night fire in turn, which means burning "bad luck", welcoming the light, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating diseases, and happiness will last forever. New Year's Eve
When eating "seven dishes", the name of each dish should start with the letter "S" to show good luck. From grade one to grade three, people visit relatives and friends.
Wish each other a happy Spring Festival. On the last day of the new year, the whole family went out for an outing to ward off evil spirits.
France
Celebrating the New Year with wine, people began to revel in drinking on New Year's Eve until 65438+1October 3. The French think that New Year's Day.
Our weather heralds the arrival of the new year. In the early morning of New Year's Day, they went to the streets to watch the wind direction for divination: the south wind blows, which indicates good weather.
A 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; If the north wind blows, then
This is a poor harvest year.