When did the New Year begin?

The first day of the Lunar New Year (this year is February 18).

It seems to be the second day of Chinese New Year's Eve (Spring Festival).

Is it the time of the New Year? Or do you want to ask from which dynasty did you start celebrating the New Year?

The New Year's Festival, now known as the "Spring Festival", has a long history of origin, evolving from the first year of prayer in ancient times, and it is recorded that the Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. It was created by working people.

According to the old custom, starting from the day of the sacrificial stove (dust sweeping day) on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth day of December at the end of the year, until the night of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month or the nineteenth day of the first month, the time of nearly a month is called "New Year", that is, the "Spring Festival period" that is now called; If you start from the preparation of "New Year's goods", it will be busy from December 15 and 6 at the end of the year.

New Year's Day, also known as Yuan Ri, Wu Shuo, Wu Chen, Yuan Zheng, etc., contains the meaning of the beginning of the year. Because the original meaning of "yuan" is "human head", it is extended to "beginning". The original meaning of "Dan" blind cherry blossom is also "beginning".

According to the record in Song's "Dream Lianglu New Year": "The first lunar day is called New Year's Day, and it is called the New Year. ”

The name "New Year's Day" is said to be derived from the legendary Three Emperors and Five Emperors. 颛顼 takes the first month as the yuan, and the first day of the new year is the day. Since then, the dates of New Year's Day in Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han have not been the same.

According to the "Historical Records", the Xia Dynasty took the first day of the first month as the New Year's Day, the Shang Dynasty took the first day of December as the New Year's Day, and the Zhou Dynasty took the first day of the November as the New Year's Day.

After the Xinhai Revolution in China, the world general Gregorian calendar was used, with the first day of January in the Gregorian calendar as the New Year's Day and the first day of the first lunar month as the Spring Festival.

What is "New Year's Day"? "Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means daytime. New Year's Day is the beginning of the year.

In order to facilitate the calculation of time, people are looking for a more reasonable starting point as the beginning of the year in the natural phenomenon of the earth's cycle around the sun. The beginning of the year is entirely assumed to be the first of the year, so there are different opinions on when to be the head of the year. For example, China has long advocated the "beginning of spring" as the beginning of the year, while European countries are in favor of taking the "winter solstice" as the starting point, and there are also those that adopt the "spring equinox".

In 46 B.C., after Caesar became emperor of the Roman Empire, he abolished the lunar calendar and reformulated a new calendar, the Gregorian calendar, which began to be implemented in 45 B.C., called the "Julian calendar". This calendar used to start the year with the "winter solstice", but at that time the masses were accustomed to the lunar calendar and insisted on using the new day as the starting point of the year. Therefore, the tenth day after the "winter solstice" is set as the first day of the year, which is the first day of January in the "solar calendar", which has been used to this day.

We call this day "New Year's Day".

In China, the New Year is also called "New Year's Day", and in ancient times, it was also called "Yuan Ri", "Shangri", "Duan Ri", "Yuan Chen", "Yuan Shuo" and so on.