New Year's Day, commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world, is the first day of a new year in the Gregorian calendar. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin, but its meaning has been used for more than 4000 years.

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.

In Xiao Ziyun's poem Jieya in the Southern Dynasties, there is also a record of "New Year's Day in Four Seasons, Long Life in Early Spring". In the Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu's "Dream Liang Lu" said: "The first month of the first month is called New Year's Day, and the custom is called New Year's Day. One-year-old festival, this is the first. " The record.