Festival Science Popularization
Chinese New Year's Day, according to legend, originated from Zhuanxu, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and has a history of more than 3000 years. The term "New Year's Day" began to appear in the poem "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuan took the first month of Mengxia as the yuan, but in fact, it was the spring of the first day of the new year. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was also a record in Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya" that reads "New Year's Day in all four seasons, early spring in ten thousand years of life".The "New Year's Day" in Chinese history refers to the "first day of the first lunar month". The calculation method of "first month" was very inconsistent before the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, and the date of New Year's Day (the first day of the first lunar month) was not consistent throughout the dynasties.In 1911 AD, in order to follow the agricultural season and follow the Western calendar, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar (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" at that time.In 1949, the People's Republic of China designated January 1st of the Gregorian calendar as the New Year's Day, hence "New Year's Day" is also known as the "Gregorian calendar year", "New calendar year" or "Gregorian calendar year" in China.