Although the word "Chinese New Year" appeared in the Jin Dynasty, the concept of "Chinese New Year" existed long ago, and it was different from dynasty to dynasty. For example, the Qin Dynasty stipulated that 10 was the first month, so New Year's Day was 10, and Shang Dynasty defined December as the first month, so December 1st was New Year's Day. Now, the definition of "Jacky" in January was formulated after the establishment of the Han Dynasty. Since then,
The New Year, that is, the first day of the year, is a popular holiday in most countries in the world. All countries in the world, especially in ancient times, have different dates for the New Year. Most countries in the modern world set the calendar year as 1. 1. Modern China calls "New Year's Day" the Gregorian New Year.
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Although the meaning of "New Year's Day" means the first day of the year has never changed, in the history of China, the specific date of "New Year's Day" changed with the revision of dynasty change:
Xia Dynasty is the first day of the first month of the summer calendar.
Shang Dynasty is the first day of December in the summer calendar.
The Zhou Dynasty is the first day of November in the summer calendar.
The Qin dynasty is the first day of October in the summer calendar (see lunar calendar)
In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Deng Ping and others founded the "taichu calendar", which redesignated the first day of the first month of the first lunar month in the summer calendar as New Year's Day, and it has been in use ever since until the Revolution of 1911.
After the founding of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen followed the farming season in order to "do a good job in summer"; From the Gregorian calendar, so statistics ",renamed the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as Spring Festival, and Gregorian calendar 1 as New Year's Day [1].
Gregorian calendar1September, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference passed the "A.D. Chronology Law", which was renamed as "New Year's Day" on Gregorian calendar 1+0.