Chinese New Years Day has always referred to the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar. Yuan means "beginning" and "beginning", and Dan refers to "days". New Years Day collectively refers to the "initial days", which is the first day of the year. There are different names in various Chinese dialects. Some are called "New Years Day" and some are called "Da Tian Chu Yi".Yes, some people call it "the first day of the first lunar month", but its usually called "the first day of the first lunar month".
The date on which the first day of the first lunar month was counted was also very inconsistent before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the month and day of New Years Day in the past dynasties are not consistent. The lunar calendar of the Xia Dynasty took Meng Xi month (Yuan month) as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang dynasty took the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou calendar of the Zhou dynasty took the winter month (November) as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchun month (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October as New Years Day. Starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Meng Xiyue (January) was designated as the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar) was called New Years Day, which was still used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. But this is the lunar calendar, that is, the lunar calendar or the lunar calendar, and it is not what we call New Years Day today.
In 1911 AD, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Representatives of the provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and January 1st of the Gregorian calendar "New Years Day". However, it was not officially announced and named at that time. In order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so the agricultural time is in line with the Western calendar, so statistics are convenient", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) is the "New Year"; , but it is not called "New Years Day".
