Chinese people are accustomed to refer to January 1st every year as “New Year’s Day.” How did the term “New Year’s Day” come from?
The term “New Year’s Day” is a “native product” in ancient China. China has had the custom of “Nian” very early.
Every year, January 1st is New Year’s Day, which is the beginning of the New Year. “New Year’s Day” is a compound word. In terms of a single word, “Yuan” means the first or beginning.
The original meaning of the word “Dan” is dawn or morning. Our country was excavating the cultural relics of Dawenkou, and found a picture of the sun rising from the top of the mountain, with mist in the middle. After textual research, this is the oldest way of writing “Dan” in our country. Later, the simplified “Dan” character appeared on the bronze inscriptions of the Yin and Shang dynasties.
The “New Year’s Day” referred to today is the first plenary meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on September 27, 1949. While deciding to establish the People’s Republic of China, it also decided to adopt the universal AD chronology and change the Gregorian calendar.
It is officially positioned as “New Year’s Day” on January 1, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is changed to “Spring Festival”