chinadaily双语新闻：元旦的来历

1、中国古代称新年第⼀天为“元旦”或元⽇、元长、元朔、元春，具体⽇期在西汉以前各不相同，西汉汉武帝太初元年，司马迁创“太初历”，以正⽉初⼀⽇为元

　　Chinese New Year

　　Chinese New Year has always refers to farmers (summer, Yin) calendar of the first month. Yuan is \"beginning\\"beginning\" meaning, celebrating the New Year's day cutted

　　Refers to the \"day\

language has various hyphenates around, there are called \"lunar New Year\New Year's day \\"the Chai inscription been reflected cui eliphelet of call\" yuan is \"; YuChan \"jin Yang ode in called\" magic \"; $ When a pieceof beiqi the yuan will be multiplied song imperial summer phrase \"shout for\" yuan; the spring\" One YuanRi back toward theLiShi view to camp in the poem of military battle in the \"yuan\" shobach \". In the past dynasties on June 21 is not uniform. Inthe first month, system of shang, zhou dynasty in December month in November, qin shihuang unified after six month, andthe first day in October for New Year's day, has not changed since past dynasties (shiji). In the beginning, yuan emperor,sima qian created the \"the beginning calendar\provisions as, say again so \"XiaLi\yat-sen, so summer \"line is the farming; from the western, so that statistics\Spring Festival in the western calendar January 1st as New Year's day. In contemporary, New Year's day, refers to the

Christian era of at the first 2 days. Since the western introduced into China, New Year's day after a word was dedicated to theNew Year, the traditional JiuLiNian says the Spring Festival. A.D. 1911, under the leadership of the revolution of 1911, sunyat-sen overthrew the rule of the manchu, established the republic of China. Our representatives meeting in nanjing

provinces, decided to use the lunar calendar, the day of the first month called \"Spring Festival, the Gregorian calendar onJanuary 1, called\" New Year's day \". But did not officially announced and the naming. In order to \"line summer is, so thefarming from the western, so that statistics Taiwan,\" the first decided to use the calendar (actual use is 1912), and stipulatesthe Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) January 1 as \"happy New Year\\"New Year's day\

conference first plenary session resolution: \"the People's Republic of China by the Christian confence approved, that is whatwe call the solar calendar, in order to distinguish the lunar New Year, and two to the solar calendar in view of the lunar year\"of \"24 solar terms in just before and after the lunar New Year, so he put on the lunar calendar renamed\" Spring Festival \solar calendar as \"New Year's day on January 1, thus, the New Year's day to become national people's joy festival.　　Edit this section on New Year's day origin

　　New Year's day

　　Ancient Chinese New Year's day, not now universal \"which Gregorian calendar almanac\" - January 1. From the Yin andset the twelfth lunar month of the first year, to the han dynasty set at the lunar calendar year, had many times for repeatedchange. To the republic of sun yat-sen in 1912, when early January as temporary President in nanjing for \"sunlink farming\\"then statistics\called \"New Year\unified use \"national festival and anniversaries holidays approach\Year's day, and decide the national in the period have the day off. At the same time for the lunar calendar year and differencebetween the two, and in view of the lunar year of \"four and twenty solar termhe lunar calendar is called \"Spring Festival\". \"New\" yuan \\"yuan\sun rising slowly on the horizon, the symbol of the day's start. People put \"yuan\" and \"denier\" talaq, extended to combine thefirst day of the New Year begins. New Year's day is also called \"ternary\Year's day the word begins with the memorial rituals, tang and five sovereigns FangXuanLing etc. Write the chapter

\"upload:\" in the MengChun emperor xu is yuan, when the spring of New Year's day is shomer.\" Namely the called yuan, ofthe first eruptions. In the interface LanZiYun beam people azariah poems also cloud: \"four gas new New Year's day,

WanShouChu today.\" There is a legend, in more than 4,000 years ago ancient ChengShiZhi, emperor shun many legends ofdiligent in people for people do many good thing, very receives general people love, but because of its have no just not quiteuseful implement, he didn't, \"the emperor's throne\" to his own son, but passed the character can shrugging shun. Yao to shun

said: \"your future must preach cosied up, stay kingship over human beings after my death also can ease gently.\" Later shunthe kingship over human beings to cure the flood of yu, yu meritorious as close to people also like shun featured for the

people did a lot of good and is really loved. The people later put yao died, ShunDi sacrifice to heaven and earth first emperoryao that day, as a year starting date, the day of the first month called \"New Year's day\Year's day. Successive royal are held DianYi unlikelihood on New Year's day celebration activities, such as sacrificialoffering the gods offering ancestors, write who hang Spring Festival couplets and writing hang \"happiness\" upside down,WuLongDeng, folk also gradually formed offering is hit, worshipping, before Spring Festival couplet, firecracker, ShouSui, eata big dinner and numerous \"poses of entertainment festivities. Jin XinLan had the poet is poem: \"RMB yuan is rev. Makesection, jiaqing arises from this. Salty played sandy-loamed, small datong yue years corvee.\" New Year's day celebrationscene accounts. In the republic of China after although set January 1st as New Year's day, when only organs, schools andforeign business of foreign big business such as 1 day, people only holiday, still do not admit in the eve of the lunar NewYear old stereotypes turbine blades &vanes as well as for the New Year, so old Beijing streets and folk are not what thefestivities. After liberation to January 1 year New Year's day festival renamed housands of years of Chinese lunar calendar in spring festive, according to farming DongXian before and after the period of\"Spring Festival\" three-day holidays, folk do \"temple fair\" wait for celebration, inheriting the people wish and thousands offolk.

　　Edit this section on New Year's meaning

　　1, China ancient times says the New Year's day New Year's day \"or\" YuanRi, yuan long, yuan to new moon and yuandynasty, specific date in spring before each are not identical, emperor han too early, sima qian and first \"too early tocalendar\" the month for yuan