The ancient ＂New Year’s Day＂ originally meant this! Too knowledgeable.
New Year’s Day in ancient times and New Year’s Day today,
Is it the same meaning?
"New Year’s Day" is the first day of January in the solar calendar every year, which is a traditional New Year in China and many countries in the world. But in ancient China, the meaning of the word "New Year’s Day" was very different from today.
Zhuan Xu (zhuān xū, the legendary ancient emperor) started the lunar calendar, with the first month as the yuan and the first day as the denier. But since then, the New Year’s Day dates of Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han are not consistent. According to Historical Records,New Year’s Day is the first day of the first month in Xia Dynasty, the first day of December in Shang Dynasty, the first day of November in Zhou Dynasty and the first day of October in Qin Dynasty. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty resumed the summer calendar, the first day of the first month was still regarded as New Year’s Day, which is now our "Spring Festival".
On the first day of the first month, we now call it "Spring Festival" or "Chinese New Year", but in ancient times it was called "New Year’s Day".
However, different dynasties still have different names:
The pre-Qin period was called "Shang Yuan", "Yuan Ri", "Gai Nian" and "Xian Nian". During the Han Dynasty, it was called "Three Dynasties", "Sui Dan", "Zhengdan" and "Zhengri". Wei and Jin Dynasties were also called "Yuan Chen", "Yuan Ri", "Fuehrer" and "Sui Dynasty". During the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was called "New Year’s Day", "Yuan Day", "New Zhengs" and "Singapore Dollars". In the Qing Dynasty, it was always called "New Year’s Day" or "Yuan Day".
From the appellations of the above dynasties, we can see that the most commonly called Spring Festival in ancient times was "January Day" or "New Year’s Day".In other words, the New Year’s Day they are talking about is not the first day of January in the solar calendar we are talking about now.
"New Year’s Day" is a compound word. According to a single word, "Yuan" is the "head" of people in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which means beginning and first."January Day" is the first day of the New Year, and "Book Shun Dian" says: "The moon is on January Day, and Shun Ge is in the same position as Wen Xiang Zu." Kong Chuan: "The moon is positive, the first month; January, last day. " "Tokyo Fu": "So Meng Chun won the day, and the group was next to it." There are also the famous poems "Tian Jia Yuan Ri" by Meng Haoran in Tang Dynasty and "Yuan Ri" by Wang Anshi in Song Dynasty, etc. The "Yuan Ri" in the poems is our present "Spring Festival".
"Dan" means dawn.Shuowen Jiezi holds that "Dan" means "seeing from the sun, seeing from the ground". "Dan" is a pictograph, which means that the sun has just risen from the horizon, which means morning. Then, the word "New Year’s Day" together is the first morning of the New Year.
As far as the word "New Year’s Day" is concerned, it originated from the poem "Jieya" written by Xiao Ziyun, a poet in the Southern Dynasties: "New Year’s Day with Four Spirits, long life." In the Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu also explained "New Year’s Day" in "Dream Liang Lu": "The first month of the first month is called New Year’s Day, and the custom is called New Year’s Day."
Fang Xuanling also said in the Book of Jin:
Zhuan Emperor took March in Meng Chun as the yuan, which was the spring of New Year’s Day.
There are also New Year’s Day poems written by Tang people and New Year’s Day poems written by Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, etc. The "New Year’s Day" here means "Spring Festival".
Other names and sources will not be introduced one by one.Before the disappearance of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese New Year was not called Spring Festival, but mostly called New Year’s Day. In other words, the previous "New Year’s Day" was not the first day of January in the solar calendar..
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