Is New Year's Day the Spring Festival? How to distinguish New Year's Day from the Spring Festival?

Is New Year's Day the Spring Festival? How to distinguish New Year's Day from the Spring Festival?
Introduction: There are many important traditional festivals in our country's traditional culture. So is New Year's Day the Spring Festival? How to distinguish New Year's Day from the Spring Festival? Follow the editor to find out! It is November of the lunar calendar in 2018, and winter is approaching. Follow Mr. Shui Mo's website and we will accompany you through the cold winter.

Is New Year's Day the Spring Festival? How to distinguish New Year's Day from the Spring Festival?

Different definitions
New Year's Day:
New Year's Day, which is January 1st of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as the "New Year" in most countries in the world. Yuan means "beginning", so the beginning of any number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day", so "New Year's Day" means "the first day". New Year's Day is also known as "Sanyuan", namely the first day of the year, the first day of the month, and the first day of the hour. The name "New Year's Day" in Chinese history refers to the first day of the first lunar month in the Xia calendar (lunar calendar, also known as the lunar calendar). The word "New Year's Day" that is recorded in existing documents first appeared in "Book of Jin".
After the Revolution of 1911, in order to "follow the Xia calendar to follow the agricultural season and the Western calendar to facilitate statistics", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was designated as "New Year", but it was not called "New Year's Day". In 1949, the People's Republic of China adopted January 1 of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day, so New Year's Day is also known as the "Gregorian year" or "Gregorian year" in China.
The concept of "New Year's Day" has different meanings in different eras and countries. Most countries in the world have adopted the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar and regard January 1st of each year as "New Year's Day."
Spring Festival: Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of the year and the traditional "New Year's Festival". It is commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year's happiness, New Year's happiness, New Year, etc. It is also verbally called celebrating the New Year, celebrating the New Year, celebrating the New Year, and celebrating the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolving from the ancient times' annual prayer and sacrificial activities. All things come from heaven, and people come from their ancestors. Praying for a good harvest, offering sacrifices, respecting heaven and following the example of ancestors are all ways to repay the roots and return to the beginning. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries rich historical and cultural heritage in the process of inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations are held across the country, and the atmosphere is lively and festive. These activities mainly focus on getting rid of the old and welcoming the new, welcoming the new year, worshiping gods and ancestors, and praying for a good harvest. They are rich and colorful in form, with strong local characteristics.

The difference between ancient and modern New Year's Day

New Year's Day in Ancient Times <br /> In ancient times, celebrations, ceremonies and prayers were held every New Year's Day. Because the Spring Festival and New Year's Day fell on the same day in ancient times, the activities on New Year's Day are similar to our current Spring Festival activities, such as offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, dragon dancing, pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, etc.
Modern New Year's Day <br /> Although we have now separated New Year's Day from the Spring Festival, New Year's Day is still a traditional Chinese festival and the country has included it in the list of legal holidays. People all over the country take a day off to celebrate the New Year's Day. People will also take advantage of the New Year's Day holiday to reunite with their families or go traveling together.
Based on the analysis of the above content, we can see that the current New Year’s Day and the Spring Festival are not the same, and they are not the same festival!

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