China really adopted the A.D. chronology and called it "New Year's Day" on September 27, 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded.
Today's "New Year's Day" is also known as the "New Year" internationally. Legend has it that the Chinese Emperor Zhuan once said "New Year's Day": "Yuan" is the first month of the lunar calendar, and "Dan" is the first day of the new year. Yu Xin of the Northern and Southern Dynasties said: "Zhengdan Mengzhao Wang's Wine Poem" said: "Zhengdan dispels evil wine, and the New Year's longevity cup." The cypress leaves come with the inscription, and the pepper flowers come one after another. This poem depicts people's joyful mood on New Year's Day. But for thousands of years, China's "New Year's Day and New Year" was actually the "Spring Festival", which was essentially a lunar calendar. The actual use of "New Year's Day" in China was in 1921, and January 1 of the solar calendar was stipulated as the "New Year" (it was not yet called "New Year's Day" at that time). The Yin Shang oracle bone inscription has its true meaning of the words "yuan", "dan", "new" and "year".
The oracle bone inscription "yuan" refers to the word thing, the combined configuration, and the upper and lower structure. Judging from the oracle bone glyphs, the upper part of the word "yuan" is a "shang" character, which describes the head at the top of the human body, and the "human" shape on one side below. "Two" and "people" are united up and down into the "yuan" glyph, highlighting its head, which means that above "people" is "head", which is the head of the human body and has the highest meaning. "Erya" said: "Yuan, the first also." "Yuan" is guided by the orientation of the human body, and the original meaning is the human head, which is extended to the leader, the head of state, and the head. "Yuan" can also describe everything from the beginning, with the meaning of beginning, the first time. "Shuowen" said: "Yuan, the beginning." From one, from the vultures. The words "yuan" and "wu" are actually the same meaning. "The Legend of the Ram: The First Year of the Hidden Emperor": "The first year of the first year, the first year of the king." "The first day of the Gregorian New Year is called "New Year's Day", the first month of the year is called "January Month", and the first day of "January Month" is called "Yuan Day". Therefore, it is known as the "three yuan": the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month, and the yuan of the day.
The oracle bone inscription "Dan", the meaning of the word, the combined configuration, the upper and lower structure. The upper part of the "sun" resembles the sun, and the lower part of the "mouth" resembles the earth, because the ancients believed that the earth was empty. The conjunction of "sun" and "mouth" indicates that the sun rises from the earth in the morning. The two strokes in the middle of "sun" and "mouth" coincide, indicating that the sun has not left the earth when it first rises. The original meaning of "Dan" is sunrise and dawn. "Sayings" said: "Dan, Mingye." From the day to see one, one, the earth also. Some oracle bone inscriptions have the word "Dan" at the bottom of the word "Yiheng", which represents the earth. The ancient characters "Dan" and "Chang" are cognate characters, indicating that the sun forms an identical reflection when it rises on the water surface, indicating that the ancients were careful to observe and have rich imagination when creating hieroglyphs. "Yuan" is the beginning, the first of the month;"Dan" is the day, the head of the sky, and is collectively called the "initial day".
The oracle bone inscription "new", the meaning of the word, the combined configuration, the left and right structure. The left side of the "Xin" is shaped like a tree, and the right side of the "Jin" is like the shape of the ancient axe, which is a kind of cutting tool for crops. "Xin" is the ancient word "salary", the original meaning is firewood, which refers to the cutting down of trees. "Shuo Wen" said: "New, take the wood, from the catty." Because a new heart appears when the tree is cut down, it is called "new", pretending to be a new person or thing, such as a new person or a new year. "Shangshu Yinzheng" said: "The old is stained and vulgar, salty and new. The Han Dynasty's "Gu Yan Song" said: "Clothes are not as good as new, and people are not as good as the old." There are also oracle bone scholars who interpret the "xin" on the left side as a kind of wooden flail, and use the "jin axe" on the right side to split the "wooden flail" to give the prisoner a new life, and then it evolves into a new one, pretending to be the meaning of the old and the new.
The oracle bone inscription "year", the meaning of the word, the combined configuration, the upper and lower structure. The "he" at the top refers to the crops that have been harvested, and the "human" shape at the bottom. "He" and "people" overlap, referring to people carrying the harvested ripe rice home, meaning a good harvest, known as "year". "Sayings" said: "Year, ancient also." From He, a thousand voices. "The Biography of Gu Liang: The Three Years of Huan Gong" said: "The five grains are ripe for years." ”
China really adopted the A.D. chronology and called it "New Year's Day" on September 27, 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded, which was in line with the world's common A.D. chronology. Considering the long cultural history of the Chinese nation, the first day of the first lunar month is the "Spring Festival", which is still used today. (Gu Jianming).