1, the origin of "New Year's Day" in China

Yuan means "beginning", and the beginning of every number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; "New Year's Day" means "the initial day", which means the beginning of a new year. So New Year's Day is also called "Gregorian New Year" or "Gregorian Year".

According to historical records, in the history of China, "New Year's Day" has many names, such as Yuanri, Yuanzheng, Yuanchen, Kainian, Yuanchun, Shangri, Huanian and so on.

2. The origin of New Year's Day

19 12 1 month 1 day, the Republic of China was announced. In Dr. Sun Yat-sen's oath of office as interim president, it ended with "New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic of China", which is the origin of China's "New Year's Day".

1On September 27th, 949, when the China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish a Republic of the Chinese people, it also decided to adopt the world-wide calendar method, that is, the solar calendar. And New Year's Day refers to the day at the beginning of the year of the Western Millennium.

Later, in order to distinguish between the two New Year's days in the summer calendar and the Gregorian calendar, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms is just around the first day of the first month in the summer calendar, the first day of the first month in the summer calendar was renamed as the "Spring Festival", and the 1 month 1 day in the Gregorian calendar was designated as the beginning of the new year, that is, "New Year's Day", and it was listed as a legal holiday and became a national holiday.

3. The significance of New Year's Day in China.

China New Year's Day is 1 month 1 day every year, marking the arrival of the new year.

The Customs and Contents of New Year's Day in China

Compared with other traditional festivals, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, etc., New Year's Day is not heavy in the hearts of China people, so it is relatively simple to celebrate. So what are the customs and contents of New Year's Day in China?

1, New Year's Day was born only during the Republic of China, so the customs and contents of New Year's Day are mostly similar to those of the Spring Festival, such as setting off fireworks, killing three students, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

2. The happy thing about New Year's Day is that as a legal holiday, there are holidays. The legal holiday date is that if you are with the weekend, it is usually three days. New Year's Day in 2020 is a special day, which happens to be Wednesday, so we only have Wednesday off.

3. Many young people in modern times tend to meet friends on New Year's Day. Or schools, enterprises, etc., will hold activities organized by groups, such as getting together, hanging slogans to celebrate New Year's Day, or dancing folk dances, etc.

China New Year's Day Holiday Arrangements

The holiday schedule of New Year's Day in China is the same as that of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other legal holidays. If you can take a vacation, it will be three days. If you can't take a vacation, you can only take a vacation. For example, on New Year's Day in 2020, because it just falls on Wednesday, you can only take a vacation on 1 month 1 day in 2020.

Holiday arrangements for other statutory holidays in China in 2020 are as follows:

1, Spring Festival:/kloc-0 has a holiday from 24th to 30th, ***7 days, in which 1 month 1 9 (Sunday) and February 1 Saturday work.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Take a holiday from April 4th to 6th, which lasts for ***3 days.

2. Labor Day: May 1 day to 5 days, ***5 days, including working on April 26th (Sunday) and May 9th (Saturday).

3. Dragon Boat Festival: June 25-27 is a holiday with 3 days, including June 28 (Sunday).

4. National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival: 1 October1Sunday to 8 days, * * 8 days, in which1October 10 (Saturday) starts work.