What holiday is New Year’s Day? How to celebrate New Year's Day?

What holiday is New Year’s Day? How to celebrate New Year's Day?
New Year's Day is a festival to celebrate the new year of the lunar calendar. It is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Want to know more about New Year's Day? The eleventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as mid-winter and the month of Zi, has seen the coolness of autumn fade away and new changes in fortune. Let’s follow Mr. Shui Mo to take a look at the latest fortune information for the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021!

What holiday is New Year’s Day?

New Year's Day usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar, that is, January 1st in the Gregorian calendar. It is commonly known as the "New Year" in most countries in the world.
The word "New Year's Day" has existed since ancient times, and it was first seen in the "Book of Jin" in literary works. "New Year's Day" in Chinese history refers to the "first day of the first lunar month". The calculation method of the "first lunar month" was very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and the dates of New Year's Day (the first day of the first month) were not consistent in different dynasties.
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", "New Calendar Year" or "Gregorian Year" in China.

How to celebrate New Year's Day?

On New Year's Eve, Chinese people usually participate in various New Year's Eve activities, such as New Year's Eve parties, New Year's Eve concerts, New Year's Eve fireworks displays, etc., or spend the New Year's Eve with relatives and friends. In some parts of the south, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Day, because "yuan" and "yuan" have the same pronunciation, which means family happiness.
1. United Kingdom
The British usually prepare wine and meat on the day before New Year's Day. The British believe that if there is no leftover wine and meat, there will be poverty in the coming year. In addition, the custom of "drawing well water" in the New Year is popular in the UK. People strive to be the first to draw water, believing that the first person to draw water is a happy person and the water drawn is auspicious water.
2. Germany
During the New Year's Day, every German household will place a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and tie silk flowers between the leaves to represent the blooming flowers and the spring filling the world. They climb onto chairs just before the New Year arrives at midnight on New Year's Eve, and when the bell rings, they jump off the chairs and throw a heavy object behind the chairs to show that they are throwing away the disaster and jumping into the New Year. In addition, in rural Germany there is a New Year custom of "tree climbing competition" to show success.
3. France
The French like to celebrate the New Year with wine. People start partying and drinking from New Year's Eve and don't stop until January 3rd. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day foreshadows the outlook for the new year, so in the early morning they go to the streets to look at the wind direction for divination - if the wind blows from the south, it heralds good weather and a peaceful and hot year; if the wind blows from the west, it means a bumper year for fishing and milking; if the wind blows from the east, there will be a high yield of fruit; and if the wind blows from the north, it means a poor harvest.
4. Switzerland
The Swiss have the habit of doing fitness on New Year's Day. Some of them go hiking in groups, stand on the top of the mountain facing the ice and snow, and sing loudly about the good life; some ski along the long snow trails in the mountains and forests, as if looking for the road to happiness; some hold stilt-walking competitions, with men, women, old and young all taking part, wishing each other good health. They welcome the new year by doing fitness.
5. Spain
On New Year's Eve, all family members in Spain get together to celebrate with music and games. Midnight arrived, as soon as the clock struck twelve, everyone began to scramble to eat grapes. If you can eat 12 pills according to the sound of the bell, it symbolizes that everything will go well in every month of the new year.

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