New Year's Day in ancient times, New Year's Day now.

The ancient New Year's Day and the present New Year's Day are introduced as follows:

65438+ 10 month 1 is the beginning of a new year in 2020. China people are used to calling this day New Year's Day. The word New Year's Day was born and raised in China in ancient times, not imported. The lunar calendar has been used for more than 4,000 years, but now the New Year's Day is 1949, and the summer calendar produced by the Xia Dynasty in China is the current lunar calendar.

In China Chinese, New Year is a compound word. Yuan is the beginning, the beginning, the beginning, and Dan is an pictograph, which was recorded on the bronze wares of Shang Dynasty. It means that the sun rises from the ground level, and New Year's Day is the initial day, which is the first day of the year.

Historically, New Year's Day has many appellations, such as Yuanshuo, Zheng Dan, Jacky, New Year, Early Year, Tai Sui Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, Year of the Rooster and so on. But among many appellations, New Year's Day is the most common and the longest.

Due to different dynasties, the calendars adopted are also different. New Year's Day in China is not consistent. For example, the Xia Dynasty is the first day of the first month, the Shang Dynasty is the first day of December, and the Zhou Dynasty is the first day of November. After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, it was changed to the first day of October. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the summer calendar was reused and the first day of the first lunar month was regarded as New Year's Day.

After that, except for a few dynasties, all other dynasties used the summer calendar. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, 19 1 1, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing Dynasty and decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar. Gregorian calendar 1 is called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month is called Spring Festival, but it was not officially announced and named at that time. Today's new year's day is called.

The first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference passed a resolution. After the founding of New China, China was changed to the universal calendar year. Since then, Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10 1 has been officially called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival.

Overview of New Year's Day in various countries:

On the day before the British New Year, every household must have wine in the bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believe that if there is no wine and meat left over, they will be poor in the coming year. In addition, the custom of drilling wells in New Year is popular in Britain. People strive to be the first person to draw water, thinking that the first person to draw water is a happy person, and the water obtained from it is auspicious.

In Belgium, on the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing in the countryside is to pay New Year greetings to livestock. People go to cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals. During the German New Year's Day, every household should put a fir tree and a cross tree, and the leaves are covered with silk flower, indicating that a hundred flowers are blooming and the spring is full.

At midnight on New Year's Eve, just before the arrival of the New Year, they climbed into the chair. As soon as the bell rang, they jumped up from their chairs and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they had abandoned the disaster and entered the new year. In rural Germany, there is also the custom of climbing trees to celebrate the New Year, to show the promotion step by step.

France celebrates the New Year with wine. People began to revel in drinking on New Year's Eve until June 3, 65438. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day indicates the arrival of the New Year. On the morning of New Year's Day, they went to the streets to watch the wind direction for divination. The south wind was blowing, indicating that the weather would be peaceful and hot.

The west wind is blowing, and fishing and milking are bumper years. When the east wind blows, the fruit is high, and when the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.