Chinese New Year's Day has always referred to the first day of the first month of the lunar (summer, overcast) calendar. Yuan means "beginning" and "beginning". Dan means "day", and New Year's Day together is the "initial day", which is the first day of the year. There are different names in different languages in Chinese, some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "New Year's Day", and they are usually called "First Day of the First Moon".
On New Year's Day, the book "Shun Dian" is called "Yuan Day", and the Han Dynasty Cui Wei "Yuan Zheng" is called "Yuan Zheng"; in Jin Dynasty, the "Yang Du Fu" is called "Yuan Chen"; during the Northern Qi Dynasty An article "Yuanhui Daxiangge Huang Xia Ci" is called "Yuanchun"; Tang Dezong Li Shi called "Yuan Shuo" in the poem "Yuanri retreating from the North Korea to watch the battle and return to camp". The moon and day of New Year's Day in China are not consistent. The Xia Dynasty was on the first day of the first month, the Shang Dynasty was on the first day of December, and the Zhou Dynasty was on the first day of November. After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he took New Year's Day as the first day of October, and the history has not changed since then ("Historical Records"). In the first year of the first year of Emperor Hanwu, Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar". This was the New Year's Day on the first day of the first month. It was the same as the Xia Dynasty regulations, so it was also called the "Xiaoli", which was used until the Revolution of 1911. The founding of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen in order to "run Xiazheng, so the agricultural period; from the Western calendar, so statistics", the first day of the lunar new year (New Year's Day) as the Spring Festival, and the Western calendar (the Gregorian calendar) January 1 as the New Year.
In modern times, New Year's Day refers to the second day of the first year of the AD. Since the introduction of the Western calendar into China, the term New Year's Day has been dedicated to the New Year, and the traditional old calendar year is called the Spring Festival. In 1911, the 1911 Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu rule and established the Republic of China. Representatives of governors from various provinces met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was called the "Spring Festival" and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day." However, it was not officially announced and named at that time. In order to "Xia Xingzheng, so when the agricultural period, from the Western calendar, so that statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actual use is 1912), and stipulated that the solar calendar (gregorian calendar) January 1 as "New Year", but not Called "New Year's Day".
Today's "New Year's Day" is September 27, 1949, the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference resolved: "The People's Republic of China adopts the AD method", which is what we call In order to distinguish the Chinese New Year and the Chinese New Year, and because the "Spring" in the 24 solar terms is just before and after the Chinese New Year, the first day of the first lunar month is renamed as the "Spring Festival". For the "New Year's Day", until then, New Year's Day has become a joyous festival for the people across the country.