Introduction To New Year's Day

New Year's Day is a holiday set by people to celebrate the first day of the new year, which falls on January 1st in the Gregorian calendar. Regarding New Year's Day, there is a detailed introduction as follows:
1, Origin and History
The term 'New Year's Day' has existed in ancient China and was first mentioned in the Book of Jin. In history, "New Year's Day" referred to "the first day of the first lunar month". The calculation method of "January" was very inconsistent before the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, so the date of New Year's Day (the first day of the first lunar month) was also not consistent throughout the dynasties.
Starting from Emperor Wu of Han, it was stipulated that January in spring was the first lunar month, and the first day of January was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
After the Xinhai Revolution, in order to follow the agricultural season and calculate according to the Western calendar, the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (which was actually used in 1912) and designated January 1st of the Gregorian calendar as the "New Year", but it was not called "New Year's Day".
On September 27, 1949, when the First Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China, it also decided to adopt the universal calendar, the Gregorian calendar. It also stipulates that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar is the beginning of the new year - "New Year's Day", which is listed as a legal holiday and becomes a national holiday.
2, Name Origin
Yuan is called "beginning", and the beginning of any number is called "yuan"; Dan, also known as' day '; New Year's Day "means" the day of the beginning ". New Year's Day, also known as the "Three Elements", refers to the element of the year, the element of the month, and the element of the hour.
3, Celebration method
China: New Year's Day is celebrated in a variety of ways, including eating dumplings, eating rice dumpling, setting off firecrackers, and eating reunion dinner. In the north, people also engage in folk activities such as dancing yangko and walking on stilts. In the south, there are customs such as "Qingtian Silkworms" in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, "Spring Rice" in Fujian province where flowers made of red paper are inserted into rice, and "New Year's greetings, red envelopes, or citrus fruits" in Guangdong province.
In the West: In the UK, on the day before New Year's Day, every household must have wine in a bottle and meat in a cupboard, and there is also a popular custom of "drilling well water" during the New Year. On the morning of New Year's Day in Belgium, we pay New Year's greetings to livestock. During the New Year's Day, Germans will place fir trees and horizontal trees with silk flowers among their leaves, which means that flowers are like flowers and spring is full of people. The French celebrate the New Year with wine and start to revel from New Year's Eve. Italian New Year's Eve is a night of revelry, where people flock to the streets to light firecrackers and fireworks.