New Year's Day, January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries around the world.

The two words "Yuan" and "Dan" together mean the first morning of the new year.

The name New Year's Day originated from ancient timekeeping and agricultural production.

During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, in order to grasp the time and seasons to facilitate farming, the "astronomers" at that time already knew how to use the movement of the moon to measure time. The moon waxes and wanes once, which is designated as a month. The first day of the lunar month is the new day, and the fifteenth day is the new day.

Look at the sun; the moon is full and missing twelve times, that is, twelve months, which is one year.

There are only three widely circulated theories about the origin of New Year's Day, but there are quite a lot of New Year's Day customs. Let's take a look with me: 1. The origin of New Year's Day? One of the origins of New Year's Day: Zhuanxu designated New Year's Day? China's New Year's Day, according to

Legend has it that it originated from Zhuanxu, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and has a history of more than 3,000 years.

The word "New Year's Day" in my country comes from Zhuanxu (zhuān xū), the leader of the ancient tribal alliance in my country and one of the "Five Emperors".

He stipulated that the first month of the lunar calendar should be "Yuan" and the first day of the lunar month should be "Dan".

The calendar in the early Han Dynasty basically followed the Zhuanxu calendar since the Qin Dynasty.

"Zhuanxu Calendar" was completed in the 19th year of Qin Xiangong (366 BC).

The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuan took the first month of Mengxia as the Yuan Dynasty, which is actually the spring of New Year's Day in Zhengshuo".

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jie Ya" in the Southern Dynasties also recorded the saying "New Year's Day for all four seasons, early spring for longevity".

The lunar calendar of the Xia Dynasty took Meng Xi month (Yuan month) as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang dynasty took the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou calendar of the Zhou dynasty took the winter month (November) as the first month.

After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchun month (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October as New Year's Day.

?Origin of New Year's Day Part 2: The Legend of Emperors Yao and Shun? Legend has it that during the ancient times of Yao and Shun more than 4,000 years ago, Emperor Yao worked diligently on the people and did many good things for the people. He was very loved by the people, but because his son had no talent.

It was not very successful. He did not pass the throne of "Emperor" to his son, but passed it to Shun, who had both moral character and ability.

Yao said to Shun: "You must pass on the throne well in the future, so that you can rest in peace after my death." Later, Shun passed the throne to Yu who had done great work in controlling floods. Yu also loved the people and did things for the people just like Shun.

He has done many good deeds and is very loved by others.

Later, people regarded the day when Emperor Shun offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and the late Emperor Yao as the beginning of the year after Yao's death, and the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day" or "Yuanzheng". This was the ancient New Year's Day.

New Year's Day in ancient China was not January 1 of the Gregorian calendar that is commonly used today.

From the Yin Dynasty when the first day of the twelfth lunar month was designated as the beginning of the year, to the Han Dynasty when the first day of the first lunar month was designated as the beginning of the year, there have been many repeated changes.

By the time of the Republic of China, when Sun Yat-sen took office as the provisional president in Nanjing in early January 1912, the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar was designated as the Spring Festival, and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was designated as the "New Year" at the beginning of the year. However,

Still called "New Year's Day".

?The third origin of New Year's Day: It originated from ancient Egypt and said "New Year's Day", which first came from the West.

Around 50,000 BC, the ancient Egyptians changed from nomadic herding to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile River. Their agricultural harvests were closely related to whether the Nile River flooded.

The ancient Egyptians discovered from long-term observations that the Nile River flooded at regular intervals. They recorded the time on bamboo poles each time, and learned that the interval between two flooding times was approximately 365 days, which is one year.

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At the same time, the ancient Egyptians also discovered that when the first rising tide of the Nile River reached the vicinity of today's Cairo, it happened to be the time when the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon at the same time.

Therefore, the ancient Egyptians designated this day as the beginning of the year.

This is the earliest origin of New Year's Day.

New Year's Day is the beginning of celebrating the New Year. Celebrating New Year's Day can be said to be a common custom in various countries and regions around the world.

Now, most countries in the world regard January 1 of each year as New Year's Day. Since countries around the world are located in different longitude locations and have different times, the dates of "New Year's Day" are also different.

2. New Year’s Day customs: One of the New Year’s Day customs: soup cakes. Soup cakes are eaten on New Year’s Day. Soup cakes are noodle soup.

"Southern rice, northern side".

Friends from the north have the habit of eating pasta during Chinese New Year and holidays.

"It is extremely cold in Xuandong. In the early morning, the tears will freeze in the nose and the frost will freeze on the outside of the mouth. Soup is the best way to replenish the deficiency and relieve the fight." In such a cold weather, people are shivering, so why not have a bowl of hot soup?

Soup cake to warm your stomach.

There is a story about eating soup cakes. It tells that He Yan, a famous writer during the Three Kingdoms period, was a famous handsome man.