Knowledge of New Year’s Day in 2023

Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368)dawnfasthappyHello, 2023!On the first day of the Gregorian calendar every year,

All mark the arrival of the new year,People are used to calling this day "New Year’s Day", also known as "solar calendar year".

So with the first ray of sunshine in the morning,People wish each other: "Happy New Year’s Day!"How did the festival "New Year’s Day" come about? What evolution has it experienced in Chinese history? What are the relevant customs, cultures and poems? Let’s increase our knowledge together!

The origin of new year’s day

China’s New Year’s Day, according to legend, originated in Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors and five emperors. The word "New Year’s Day" first appeared in the poem "Zhuan Di took the first month of Meng Xia as the yuan, but it was actually the spring of New Year’s Day" in the Book of Jin. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun’s poem Jieya in the Southern Dynasties also recorded "New Year’s Day in Four Seasons, Long Life in Early Spring".

China first called the first day of the first lunar month "New Year’s Day". Yuan means "early" and "beginning" and refers to "day". Together, New Year’s Day is the "initial day", that is, the first day of the year. The date of the first day of the first month was also very different before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the new year’s day of the past dynasties is not consistent. Meng Xiyue (January) is the first month in the summer calendar of Xia Dynasty, twelfth month (December) in the Yin calendar of Shang Dynasty and winter month (November) in the Zhou calendar. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchunyue (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October was New Year’s Day. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that Meng Xiyue (January) was the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first month in the summer calendar) was called New Year’s Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. But this is the summer calendar, that is, the lunar calendar or lunar calendar, and it is not what we call New Year’s Day today.

In 1911, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "follow the agricultural season, follow the western calendar, and make statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used in 1912) and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) was called "New Year’s Day", but it was not called "New Year’s Day".

Today’s "New Year’s Day" is the first plenary session of China People’s Political Consultative Conference on September 27th, 1949. When it was decided to establish the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it was also decided to adopt the world-wide calendar method, and officially designated January 1st of the Gregorian calendar as "New Year’s Day" and the first day of the first lunar month as "Spring Festival".

New year’s day customs

New Year’s Day is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in the whole year. How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits in the historical development of a hundred years, and many of them have been passed down to this day.

Eating rice cakes, also known as sticky cakes, has the meaning of high year after year. Rice cakes have a long history, but eating rice cakes on New Year’s Day prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. Mainly in Suzhou, Jiading and other places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital", on the New Year’s Day of the first month, "I am excited to wash, eat jujube cakes and celebrate the New Year’s cakes".

Eating dumplings at the beginning of the new year has a very good meaning. Because the dumplings are round, they symbolize family reunion and family reunion, harmony and happiness, and they are used to eating dumplings on many major festivals.

Eating jiaozi jiaozi is transformed from wonton. Every New Year’s Day, northerners will eat jiaozi. But the custom of eating jiaozi on New Year’s Day flourished in the north of Ming and Qing Dynasties. On New Year’s Day, "make a flat food, and serve the long life".

Setting off firecrackers means that the old year has passed and the new year has come. Legend has it that Nian is a terrible monster. Firecrackers are set off during the Chinese New Year to scare away the cannibal Nian beast and protect the safety of family members. This is also to add a festive and lively atmosphere to New Year’s Day.

It is essential to send blessings in China. While blessing others, we are also enjoying their blessings. May everything go smoothly in the new year.

Poems and sentences on New Year’s Day

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The year 2023 is coming, the regret of the past and the longing for a new life. Is this feeling common in ancient and modern times? Let’s take a look at how the ancients spent New Year’s Day. Although the ancient New Year’s Day and today’s "New Year’s Day" are not a concept, there is no difference in their feelings.

YuanriSong Wang AnshiThe roar of firecrackers, the old one year has passed; The warm spring breeze came to the new year, and people drank happily the newly brewed tu su wine.

The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.

Tian Jia’s New Year’s Day Winter SceneTang Meng HaoranLast night the bucket handle of the big dipper turned to the east, and this morning began again.

I am forty years old, and I am worried about farming, though I have no official position.The farmer who worked in fields full of mulberry trees, carrying a hoe and a shepherd boy worked together.

The farmers predicted this year’s harvest, saying that this year was a good year.New year’s workDon Liu Changqing

New year’s arrival homesick more, the independent horizon can not help tears flow.To the old age is exiled to the people, the spring is hurried on ahead of me.

The apes and me in the mountains fainted, and the willows and willows in the river were divided into sorrow.

I have suffered like the imperial guardian, so when will the day be taken?Thoughts on January DayTang Liu Yuxi

Zhen Zhe dived in the spring, but the people from southern Hunan did not return.The longer you get, the more you feel last year.

The burning fire is empty, and the children’s colorful clothes.There is no old acquaintance in a foreign land, and it is rare to get to the door.

Yuan ri Shu HuaiDon Lu ZhaolinThere is no middle rank in the official position, and there are foreign ministers in the cultivated land.

People sing songs and drink wine, and flowers dance in the Tang Dynasty.The grass is fascinated by three paths, and the scenery moves around.

May it be so long, and the phenology will be new every year.Occasionally making plum blossoms in Helin on New Year’s Day

Song Bai YuchanThe east wind blows the snow on the willow tips, saving the world spring overnight.Since then, Yangchun should have feet, and the spirit of flowers and rich grass.

Jiyou New Year’s DaySong luyouNight rain dissolves the residual snow, and the morning sun opens and accumulates yin.

Taofu is written with a pen, and the pepper and wine are slanting.YuanriCheng Yanxiong in Southern Tang Dynasty

Dai Xing first held a wish for Yao, and his temples were stunned in the mirror.It’s a good idea to steal before the lamp, and Tu Su should not taste it first.

Original title: "2023" New Year’s Day "knowledge science"