Q: Why is the first month of the lunar calendar called "the first month"? According to Zhao Zhi Heng, president of Tianjin Astronomical Society, in ancient China, the first month of each year sometimes changed with the change of dynasties. Before the Han dynasty, the order of months often changed every time the dynasty changed. It is said that as early as the Xia Dynasty, January of the current lunar calendar is actually the first month (the Xia Dynasty calendar was built in Yin, and September is the first month of the current lunar calendar); The Shang dynasty stipulated that 65438+ February was the first month of each year (the Shang dynasty built ugly, and the current month, that is, the December of the lunar calendar, was the first month); The Zhou dynasty took 1 1 as the first month of each year (the son of the Zhou dynasty, the month of the year, that is, November of the lunar calendar now). After Qin Shihuang unified the world, it took 10 as the first month of each year (in Qin Dynasty, Zhuan Xu was used to make winter months, that is, October of this lunar calendar was the first year). These are all recorded in the biography of Shangshu written by Fu Sheng, a great scholar in the second century BC: "Summer is in March, the color is still black, and Pingdan is the new moon; Yin is positive in December (ugly), the color is still white, and the crow is a new moon; The week is positive in November, the color is still red, and the midnight is the new moon. " In ancient times, November represented the sub-moon in the twelve earthly branches, December represented the ugly moon, and October represented the moon before the sub-moon, so I mean to make a child and be ugly. The Book of Song Dynasty (volume 14) and Four Rites and Discipline of Me recorded the first month of Qin and Han Dynasties: "Hu Yi led Qin people to take Hai as the truth, instead of changing the year and month as the basis, otherwise. The ancient teacher said that these months were written by chroniclers after the beginning of the calendar, not the original name at that time. Taking October as the beginning of a year means that October is the first month. This real month was called April Ear at that time. He always does. Uncle Suntong, the ministers will go in October. According to the ancients, October is the first month of the Han nationality, so it is a ceremony to celebrate the New Year. " In other words, from the Qin Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty, October is the beginning of a year. In fact, before the Han dynasty, every time the dynasty changed, the emperor had to change his surname, and the son of heaven had to "change his name" in order to show that he was "ordered by heaven" Zhao Zhi Heng said that these dynasties called the first month after the reform of Yuan Dynasty "the first month", and "reform of Yuan Dynasty" meant correction. In their view, after the change of dynasty, since they became emperors and occupied a suitable position, the order of one year 12 months had to follow them. Therefore, every time each dynasty revised the order of one month, the first month after the calendar change was called "the first month". At the beginning of Han Dynasty, the Zhuan Xu calendar of Qin Dynasty was still used, with September as the end of the year and October as the beginning of the year. So the New Year's Eve in the early Han Dynasty is today's September 29th, and the New Year's Day is October 1st. For example, in the seventh year of Emperor Gaozu (200 years before the reign of Emperor Gaozu), Changle Palace was completed, which coincided with the New Year, and the first ceremony of civil and military ministers in the DPRK was held on 10/day. Until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, due to the repeated calendar changes in previous dynasties, the calendar was very inaccurate, and there was a "new moon, full of strings" ("Hanshu? The chaos of the calendar), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Sima Qian and others to change the Zhuan Xu calendar and make another calendar, only to restore the first month of the summer calendar as the beginning of the year (so people still call the lunar calendar "summer calendar"), and put 24 solar terms into the calendar. Although the calendar has been revised many times by later generations, it is basically based on taichu calendar, with the first month of Meng Chun in the summer calendar as the beginning of the year. From then on (except Wang Mang's new dynasty and Wei Mingdi once switched to Andrew, Wu Zetian and Tang Suzong once switched to Zhou Zheng, which was very short-lived), it has been in use until now (that is, the first day of the Lunar New Year is the first day of the Lunar New Year). Q: Since "Zheng" means correction, the word "Zheng" in the first month should be pronounced as "correction". But why do people read it as the "sign" sound of "Long March"? A: Zhao Zhi Heng explained that in the Qin Dynasty, because of Qin Shihuang's surname, he thought the pronunciation of the word "Zheng" was homophonic with his name, saying it was a taboo, so he ordered that "the first month" be read as "Zheng (Zheng) Yue". Later, people got used to it and it has been used ever since. In addition, in order to avoid Ying Zheng, it is taboo to change the first month to the end of the month. Historically, January has many names, such as the first month, the end of the month, the middle of the month, the beginning of the year, the New Year, the early spring, Meng Chun and Xinzheng, and so on. /fwxx/KP/2007-02/18/content _ 530417 zhidao.baidu/question/19959420 Yiyou: 1980/b5/yunna. Yiyou27/ 1043 There is another article for reference: What does the first month mean? The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The name of the first month has a long history. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins contains the name of the first month, which can also be seen in the full text of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Then, why is the first month of the lunar calendar called the first month instead of January? In the era of Qin Shihuang, in order to avoid the taboo of Qin Shihuang's victory in politics, the first month was renamed Duanyue. It can be seen that the name of the first month is equivalent to the end of the month and the beginning of the month, which is the beginning and beginning of a year. In addition to the meaning of the first month, it also contains the meaning of the adjustment/correction month. Inclusion means that the month and the season are the same, and there is no confusion. In this sense, when China changes to the solar calendar, it is right that January is not called the first month, because there is no need to adjust leap months in the solar calendar. 365 JK/news/WDZWX/2007-2-6/62734h 0759 k8d 18f 34j 9

January of the lunar calendar, also known as the first month.

ㄓㄥㄩㄝ), taboo and renamed Duanyue, is the beginning of the Lunar New Year, and the month of establishing the shadow (tiger moon) is too complicated in law. On the first day of the first month or the middle of the first month, most of the time happens to be in beginning of spring (beginning of spring has a little time in the second half of the twelfth month). The first month is the off-season in the north, and it is also the month to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. In customs, the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month is usually called the Spring Festival.