New Year's Day was established on September 27, 1949.

New Year's Day, January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world. New Year's Day means "the first day". After the Revolution of 1911, in order to "follow the Xia Zhengzheng, so the agricultural season follows the Western calendar, so statistics are convenient", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually 1912), and stipulated January 1 of the Gregorian calendar as the "New Year", but this did not It's called "New Year's Day". In 1949, the People's Republic of China adopted January 1st of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day. Therefore, "New Year's Day" is also called "Gregorian calendar year", "New calendar year" or "Gregorian calendar year" in China.

Festival Culture

Chinese New Year’s Day: New Year’s Day in modern China, according to the Chinese government’s inclusion of it as a legal holiday, has become a national holiday. After a day off, we often adjust the weekends before or after the day, usually for three consecutive days. The celebration of New Year's Day in modern China is much less important than the Spring Festival. Generally, agencies and enterprises will hold year-end collective celebrations, but there are very few private activities.

Western New Year's Day: In 46 BC, Caesar of ancient Rome designated this day as the beginning of the Western New Year in order to bless the double-faced god "Janus", the door god in Roman mythology. "Janus" later also It evolved into the word "January" in English.