2. From the content of celebration: celebrate the arrival of the new year on New Year's Day; Lantern Festival celebrates the first full moon in a year and family reunion.
3. From the scope, New Year's Day is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world; Lantern Festival is the last important festival in China Spring Festival.
4. From the way of celebration, New Year's Day is designated as a legal holiday, and some organizations will hold New Year's Day parties, hang slogans to celebrate New Year's Day, or hold collective activities. Yuanxiao will have activities such as eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns, doing crossword puzzles and playing with lions.
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The word "New Year's Day" in the history of China first appeared in the Book of Jin. The "New Year's Day" in the history of China refers to "the first day of the first month". The calculation method of "the first month" was very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the New Year's Day dates in previous dynasties were inconsistent. From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, January of the lunar calendar was defined as the "first month", and the first day of January was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
After the Revolution of 1911, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (the actual use was 19 12 years) and the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as "New Year", but it was not called "New Year". 1949 The People's Republic of China adopted the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day as New Year's Day, so New Year's Day is also called the Gregorian calendar year, the new calendar year or the Gregorian calendar year in China.
In the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Tianguan Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Diguan Festival, Yulanben Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Shuiguan Festival) are collectively called Sanyuan. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. The activities of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to sacrifice "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the night of the first month are regarded by later generations as the first sound of offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.
Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Lantern Festival and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival.