Today's "New Year's Day" is September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the first plenary session, decided to establish the Chinese People's Republic of China at the same time, but also decided to adopt the world's common calendar, and will be officially designated as the first day of January in the Gregorian calendar. "New Year's Day" and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was changed to "Spring Festival".
"Yuan" means "beginning" and "Dan" means "daybreak". New Year's Day is the first day of the year, also known as the "new calendar year" and "solar year". New Year's Day is also known as "Sanyuan", that is, the year of the yuan, the month of the yuan, the time of the yuan.
In 1911 A.D., Sun Yat-sen led the Xinhai Revolution, overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "line Xiazheng, so smooth farming, from the Western calendar, so the statistics", the Republic of China decided to use the calendar (actually used in 1912), and the solar calendar (Gregorian calendar) January 1 for the "New Year's Day", but do not call it "New Year's Day".
Ancient China's New Year's Day diet is rich and colorful, "Jing Chu chronicle" of the account is a concentrated embodiment. Jing Chu New Year's Day in the Southern Dynasties after worship, followed by pepper and cypress wine, drink peach soup, into the tusu wine, gum teeth molasses (táng), five Xin plate. Into the Shik Yu San, served but ghost pills, each eat an egg. Among them are peach soup, drinks, food, and medicines, all in one, each with its own special meaning.