The origin of New Year's Day?

In modern times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year. Since the western calendar was introduced into China, the word New Year's Day has been dedicated to the New Year, and the traditional old calendar year is called the Spring Festival.

Before that, New Year's Day always refers to the first day of the lunar new year. Yuan means "early" and "beginning", but refers to "day". New Year's Day is collectively called "initial day", which is the first day of the year.

On September 27th, 1949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference decided: "The Chinese people * * * and the national calendar adopt the AD calendar method", which is what we call the solar calendar. In order to distinguish the two new years, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar just happened before and after the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month was changed to the "Spring Festival" and the first day of the lunar calendar was the first day of January.

Celebrating the beginning of the New Year and celebrating New Year's Day can be said to be a common custom in all countries and regions of the world.

In our country, national holidays are also included. China and most countries and regions in the world adopt the Gregorian calendar, and set January 1st as the beginning of the New Year, which is called "New Year's Day".

Because countries in the world have different longitude positions and different time, the date of "New Year's Day" is also different. For example, Tonga, an island country in Oceania, is located on the west side of the date line. It is the first place in the world to start a day and the first country to celebrate New Year's Day. Western Samoa, on the east side of the date line, is the place where a new day begins at the latest in the world. According to the Gregorian calendar, China is the 12th country in the world to start the New Year.

New Year's Day celebrations around the world:

Thailand

The traditional Thai New Year, namely Songgan Festival (which is translated into Sanskrit), is also called Songkran Festival, which falls from April 13th to 16th every year in the Gregorian calendar. During the festival, people travel with huge Buddha statues carried in cars, followed by floats.

On the cars stood the "Goddess of Song Gan" in makeup, and groups of young men and women dressed in colorful national costumes, drumming on long drums,

singing and dancing. On both sides of the road where the parade passed, good men and women walked along the streets, filled with water soaked in scallops and permeated with spices in silver bowls, and sprinkled it on the Buddha statue and the "Goddess of Song Gan" to pray for a happy New Year and good weather, and then people sprinkled water on each other.

Young men and women who were happy and wished their elders a long and healthy life and wished their relatives and friends good luck in the New Year and unmarried people used water splashing. On the first day of the new year, Thais put a basin of clear water on the windowsill and at the door, and every family goes to the rivers in the suburbs for a New Year bath. To celebrate the New Year, Thais hold a large-scale "Elephant Race Conference", which includes: tug-of-war between elephants, elephant jumping to pick up things, elephant crossing people, elephant football match, ancient elephant array performance and so on. It's wonderful and moving.

Sunday

Japanese people pay special attention to the New Year, and December 29th-January 3rd is a national holiday every year. The Japanese call December 31st "

a dark day", that is, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, the Japanese call it "except for the night". When they do, they pray to the gods for TOEFL to bid farewell to the troubled old year and usher in a beautiful new year, which is called "the first idea". At midnight on New Year's Eve, temples in urban and rural areas rang the bell 18 times to

drive away evil, while the Japanese sat quietly listening to the "bell except night". When the bell stopped, it meant the arrival of the New Year. People leave their seats and go to bed,

hoping to have a good dream. On the morning of New Year's Day, families sit around and tell each other about their dreams on New Year's Eve to test good or bad luck. The Japanese call

the first day of New Year's Day "the right day". 1-3 is "Three Congratulations Day:". On the right day, the younger generation must go to their parents' home to pay New Year greetings, and then pay New Year greetings to their relatives and friends. The New Year is still a "eating" festival, and people all over the world pray for good luck by eating their own food. Japanese

On the day of "Zhengri", breakfast is very rich, with sugar, buckwheat noodles and Tu Su wine. After that, I ate vegetarian food for three days in a row to show my piety and pray for good luck in the coming year. At present, most city people in Japan have given up their vegetarian diet in the New Year, and instead have a meal of hollow noodles in the "night" to wish them health and longevity in the new year.

Egypt and

Egypt are ancient civilizations. In 4 BC, Egyptians were able to observe the stars. They found that Sirius rose with the sun, and

the Nile rose immediately. Egypt regards the day when the Nile rises as the beginning of the new year, which is called "Rising Water New Year".

Egyptian people in Croute welcome the New Year by putting a table at the door. Seven or eight plates are provided with grains of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat.

There are many green plants, which symbolizes abundance. The more you give to God, the more you will achieve in the New Year. The new year in Egypt

is in autumn, because agricultural production in Egypt begins in autumn.

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Every year in India, New Year's Day lasts for 5 days from October 31st, and the fourth day is New Year's Day. On the first day of the new year, no one is allowed to be angry with others, let alone lose his temper. In some parts of India, on the morning of New Year's Day, every household cries constantly, and everyone's face is full of tears. They welcome the New Year by crying because the years are fleeting and life is short, which is a lament for life. People in some areas welcome the new year by fasting for one day and one night, from the early hours of New Year's Day until midnight. Because of this weird custom, New Year's Day in India is called "Crying New Year's Day" and

"Fasting New Year's Day". In the first five days of the Chinese New Year, Indians will perform the Indian epic Ramayana (meaning Rama's Parade

), playing the hero in the epic "fighting" with the paper giant. When the "hero" triggers a burning arrow, the paper giant will catch fire in the cheers of the audience. Before New Year's Eve, all kinds of beautiful pictures will be posted in front of every household. On the morning of New Year's Day, people go out to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly and their relatives and friends, carrying refined small < P > lamps and red packets. After meeting and congratulating each other, they spread red powder on each other's foreheads to show that they are lucky and happy, and look up to see each other. Young people put red ink into a water gun and shoot it at relatives and friends, which is called "sprinkling red", indicating good luck.

Indian youth like to meet and fight unarmed during the New Year, whether they are familiar with it or not. Onlookers cheer for the wind and often become the object of girls' pursuit of < P >. In order to celebrate the New Year, the indigenous people in central India, the Boxhiler people, erected a smooth and thick wooden pole in the playground, and the top of the pole

had a small bag filled with gifts. The girls held bamboo poles and tried their best to stop the boys from climbing on the pole, and the boys formed a circle under the pole

to try to defend the girls from attacking the pole climber until the pole climber won the small bag.

Chao Xian

Like China, North Korea also has the custom of stick grilles and Taofu in the New Year. Koreans put up couplets and New Year pictures in every household during the New Year. Some people put portraits of birthday girls or fairies on their doors, praying for God's blessing, driving away ghosts and giving happiness. On New Year's Day in Li

Ming, people put some money into the scarecrow tied in advance on New Year's Eve and threw it at the crossroads to show off evil and welcome good luck

. At dusk, people burn the hair that the whole family lost in a year, wishing their families peace in the four seasons. During the Spring Festival, North Korean women

wear new clothes. On New Year's Day, girls wore a kind of hemp hat called "blessing towel" and colorful clothes with patterns to have a

swing competition. They aim at a tree flower to see who can kick or bite it first. There are also people who hang bronze bells on high places, and the winner is the one who touches the ring first. During the New Year, Koreans must cook a sweet rice similar to China's eight-treasure rice with glutinous rice, pine nuts, chestnut powder,

jujube paste and honey, in addition to enjoying fine wine and delicacies, so as to indicate that the family members will live a prosperous life as sweet as honey.

Singapore

Get up early on New Year's Day and happily get "red envelopes" (lucky money) from elders. In the New Year, there is a lion dance and

dragon dance team composed of a community performing along the street. Men, women and children are dressed in costumes and bring gifts to visit relatives and friends. During the Spring Festival, people love to eat sweet rice cakes made of fried glutinous rice and brown sugar.

Britain

In Britain, although New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar is not as grand as Christmas, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, various celebrations are held according to local customs to show off the old and welcome the new. On the night of New Year's Eve, English people often go out to visit with cakes and wine. They don't knock at the door, < P > they go straight into their relatives and friends' homes. According to British custom, after the Thousand Nights on New Year's Eve, the person who takes the first step into the house indicates the luck of the new year. If the first guest is a man with dark hair, or a happy, happy and rich person, the host will be lucky all year round. If the first guest is a woman with light yellow hair, or a sad, poor and unfortunate person, the host will have bad luck and encounter difficulties and disasters in the new year. People who visit relatives and friends' homes on New Year's Eve should stir the fire in the fireplace before talking,

wishing the host "open the door". Most of the New Year celebrations in Britain are held on the fire night of New Year's Eve, and the "welcome banquet" is one of them. This kind of banquet is divided into "family banquet" and "group banquet", which usually starts at 8 pm on New Year's Eve and ends at the early morning of New Year's Day. There are all kinds of wine, food and snacks at the banquet for people to drink all night. At midnight, people turn on the radio and listen to the New Year's bell of the church clock. When the bell rings, people are jubilant, toast, cheer and sing "Sunlight in the Past". The "New Year's Eve Dance" is another celebration. By local hotels and dances, night falls. People dressed in festive

costumes came from all directions to these newly decorated dance halls with brilliant lights, dancing in the beautiful music, and thousands of

people gathered in various squares, singing and dancing around the fountain and the eros statue in the center of the square. The TV station

is still doing a live broadcast in the square, so that people who are "guarding the old age" in this house can also enjoy the joy.

Germany

The German New Year is celebrated for a week. During this period, every household should put a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and the leaves are < P > all over silk flower, indicating that flowers are blooming and spring is everywhere. At midnight on New Year's Eve, just before the arrival of the New Year, the Germans climbed into the chair. As soon as the bell rang,

they jumped out of the chair and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they would throw away the evil and jump into the New Year. Children formed a band, put on new clothes, took harmonicas and accordions, and lined up to play in the street. Adults hold colorful flags and shout and sing after them to celebrate the New Year.

German women will improvise comedy sketches with family themes in the New Year. There is a custom of celebrating the New Year in the rural areas of Germany-

-"Tree Climbing Competition", in which the boys climb along the bare trees, and the first place is called "New Year Hero" to show that step by step

rises.

Iran

Iran has an Islamic calendar, and its seasons and months are not fixed. In Iran, celebrating the New Year means celebrating the arrival of spring.

It is often in the late March of the Gregorian calendar. It takes a week to celebrate the New Year. People flock to the streets to make a "bonfire"-"night fire", and then

the whole family jumps from the night fire in turn, indicating that they will burn "bad luck", usher in light, exorcise evil spirits and eliminate diseases, and be happy forever. On new year's eve, you should

eat "seven dishes", and the name of each dish should start with the letter "s" to show good luck. From grade one to grade three, people visit relatives and friends and wish each other a happy Spring Festival. On the last day of the new year, the whole family went out for an outing to avoid evil.

France

celebrates the New Year with wine, and people begin to binge on New Year's Eve until January 3rd. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day

indicates the new year. On the morning of New Year's Day, they went to the streets to see the wind direction for divination: the south wind blows, which indicates that the weather will be good, and this year will be safe and hot; There is a good harvest year for fishing and milking when the west wind blows; If the east wind blows, the fruit will yield high; If the north wind blows,

is a poor harvest year.