Origin or allusion of New Year's Day: In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun, a literary historian in the Southern Dynasties, recorded in his poem Jieya that "New Year's Day is celebrated at four o'clock, and longevity is celebrated in early spring". Wu's Dream in the Song Dynasty said: "The first day of the first month is called New Year's Day, and the custom is called New Year's Day. This is the first one. " Record.
In A.D. 19 1 1, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Manchu Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "follow the agricultural season, so follow the western calendar, so do statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used is 19 12), and stipulated that the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/0 1 is called "New Year's Day", but it is not called "New Year's Day".
Representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling 65438+ 10 1 of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and 65438+ 10/of the Gregorian calendar "New Year's Day", but it was not officially announced at that time.
1 91265438+1October1,the Republic of China was proclaimed, and Sun Yat-sen was appointed interim president in Nanjing. Sun Yat-sen's oath of office ended with "New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic of China". This is the origin of "New Year's Day" in China.
1On September 27th, 949, the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC), and at the same time decided to adopt the international calendar, which is what we call the solar calendar. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year.
In order to distinguish the two New Year's Days, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar happens to be around the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month was renamed as "Spring Festival", and the Gregorian calendar 1 day was designated as the beginning of the New Year's Day, which was listed as a legal holiday and became a national legal holiday.