When is New Year's Day?

New Year's Day, namely 1 on the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "Chinese New Year" in most countries in the world. Yuan means "start", and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; New Year's Day means "the first day". "New Year's Day" usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar. The calendar stipulates when is January (that is, the first month), and New Year's Day is on the first day of that month, such as "the first day of the first month" in the lunar calendar and "1+ 1" in the solar calendar.

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" before the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was very inconsistent, and the dates of New Year's Day (the first day of the first month) in previous dynasties were also inconsistent. In the first year of the Republic of China, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually 19 12), and the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/was called "New Year's Day", but it was not called "New Year's Day". 1949, People's Republic of China (PRC) took Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/as New Year's Day, so New Year's Day is also called Gregorian calendar year or Gregorian calendar year in China.

New year's day culture in different countries;

1, UK

On the day before New Year's Day, every household must have wine in the bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believe that if there is no wine and meat left over, they will be poor in the coming year. In addition, the custom of "digging wells" is also popular in Britain in the New Year. People strive to be the first person to draw water, thinking that the first person to draw water is a happy person and the water called is auspicious.

2. Germany

During German New Year's Day, every household should put a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and the leaves are covered with silk flower, which means that a hundred flowers blossom and spring is full. Germans climbed into chairs at midnight on New Year's Eve. As soon as the bell rang, they jumped up from their chairs and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they had abandoned the disaster and entered the new year.

3. France

Celebrating the New Year with wine, people began to revel in drinking on New Year's Eve until 65438+1October 3. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day indicates a new year. On the morning of New Year's Day, I went to the streets to see the wind direction for divination: the south wind blows, which indicates that the weather will be good and the year will be safe and hot; When the west wind blows, there is a bumper harvest year for fishing and milking; If the east wind blows, the fruit will be rich; When the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.