New Year's Day history

On New Year's Day, it is said that one of the three emperors and five emperors has a history of more than 5,000 years.

The calculation method of the first day of the first month was also very inconsistent before the Han Wudi period. Therefore, the New Year's Day and the day of the past are not the same.

The summer calendar of the Xia Dynasty took Mengxiyue(January) as the first month, the Shang Dynasty's Yin calendar took the lunar month(December) as the first month, and the Zhou Dynasty's Zhou calendar took the winter month(November) as the first month.

From Han Wudi, it was stipulated that Mengxiyue(January) was the first month, and Mengxiyue's first day(the first day of the first month of the summer calendar) was called New Year's Day and was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

元旦来历

元旦，据说起于三皇五帝之一的颛顼，距今已有5000多年的历史。

1 元旦的由来是为了庆祝新年的开始2 元旦最早起源于古罗马的新年庆祝活动，后来传入欧洲其他国家3 现在元旦已经成为全球范围内的公共假日，人们会举办各种庆祝活动，迎接新的一年的到来

1 元旦的由来是指每年的1月1日，是西方国家的新年。这个节日起源于公元前45年的罗马共和国，当时罗马人庆祝新年的开始。 2 元旦的由来可以追溯到古罗马时期的一种庆祝活动，这个活动是为了纪念罗马神话中的神祇Janus，他是门神和过去与未来的守护神。 3 元旦的由来在罗马帝国时期逐渐传播到其他欧洲国家，成为了西方国家的新年节日。如今，元旦已经成为全球范围内庆祝的节日之一。

What is special during the New Year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets（ang pao or ya sui qian）to the children.

People in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the eve of New Year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the New Year. Ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future. Representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolises the elders' hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the “year”.

在古代，按公历来说，元旦不仅仅是⼀⽉⼀号这⼀天。元旦的⽇期从殷朝腊⽉初⼀改到汉朝的正⽉初⼀。公元1911年，孙中⼭领导的⾟亥⾰命，推翻了满清的统治，建⽴了中华民国。各省都督代表在南京开会，决定使⽤公历，把农历的正⽉初⼀叫做“春节”，把公历的1⽉1⽇叫做“元旦”。

元旦的由来英⽂：

Legend in 4000 years ago, when the ancient yao and shun sheng shi, yao tianzi in office diligent for the people do a lot of good things, by the majority of the people love, but because his son no talent is not too good, he did not pass the "son of heaven" to his son, but to the character and ability of shun. Yao said to shun。

"you must hand over the throne to the emperor from now on. Later, shun passed the throne to yu, who did a good job in flood control. Like shun, yu loved the people and did many good deeds for the people. Later people yao died, shun emperor worship heaven and earth and first emperor yao that day, as the beginning of the year, the first day of the first month known as "New Year's day", or "yuan zheng", this is the ancient New Year's day.