China New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the first month of the agricultural (summer and lunar) calendar. The "yuan" of "New Year's Day" refers to the beginning, which means the first. The beginning of every number on New Year's Day is called "yuan"; "Dan" is an pictograph, with the upper "Sun" representing the sun and the lower "One" representing the horizon. "Dan" means that the sun rises from Ran Ran on the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of a day.

People combine the words "Yuan" and "Dan", which means the first day of the new year. New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month and the yuan of the time.

New Year's Day custom:

1949 After the founding of New China, the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as New Year's Day, because New Year's Day was born during the Republic of China. Of course, the customs and habits of celebration are mostly similar to those of the Spring Festival, or it can be said to be a pocket version of the Spring Festival. After all, New Year's Day is not a traditional festival in China, although some traditional celebration methods are followed. Such as setting off fireworks, killing Sansheng, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

The name meaning of New Year's Day

Yuan means "beginning", and the beginning of every number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; "New Year's Day" means "the first day". The word "New Year's Day" usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar. The calendar stipulates when January (that is, the first month) is, and New Year's Day is on the first day of that month, such as "the first day of the first month" in the lunar calendar and "1 month 1 day" in the solar calendar.

In the history of China, "the first day of the first month" has many appellations, such as New Year's Day, Yuanri, Yuanzheng, Yuanchen, Shangri, Yuanshuo, etc., but among many appellations, "New Year's Day" is the most common and the longest.