“元”有始之意，“旦”指天明的時間，也通指白天。元旦，便是一年開始的第一天。下面是小編收集的關於元旦的英文文章，歡迎大家閱讀欣賞!
【New Year's Day 元旦】
"Yuan" has meaning only, "Dan" means the dawn of time, but also refers to the day pass. New Year's Day is the beginning of the year on the first day.
“元”有始之意，“旦”指天明的時間，也通指白天。元旦，便是一年開始的第一天。
China's ancient New Year's Day is not the same month. In the first lunar month started this summer on behalf of the Shang dynasty who started in December, Zhou who started in November, after the emperor Tongyiliuguo so, on New Year's Day a day in early October and since then successive Xiangyan not changed and ( "Historical Records").
The first year of Emperor Wu was in the beginning, the Sima Qian, the creation of a "calendar was in the beginning," This Youyi who started for the first month in the New Year, and the summer on behalf of the provisions of the same, so called "traditional Chinese lunar calendar," has been in use to the 1911 Revolution.
The establishment of the Republic of China Sun Yat-sen in order to "line XIA, so shun farming season; from the Western calendar, so they Statistics", will be the first month started this (New Year's Day) for the Spring Festival, while the west of the calendar (Gregorian calendar) January 1 as New Year's. September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC through the use of the "Year Annals Law," who started the first lunar month, called "Spring Festival" will Gregorian calendar January 1 as the "New Year's Day."
我國曆代元旦的月日並不一致。夏代在正月初一，商代在十二月初一，周代在十一月初一，秦始皇統一六國後，又以十月初一日爲元旦，自此歷代相沿未改(《史記》)。漢武帝太初元年時，司馬遷創立了“太初曆”，這才又以正月初一爲元旦，和夏代規定一樣，所以又稱“夏曆”，一直沿用到辛亥革命。
中華民國建立，孫中山爲了“行夏正，所以順農時;從西曆，所以便統計”，定正月初一(元旦)爲春節，而以西曆(公曆)1月1日爲新年。1949年9月27日，中國人民政治協商會議第一屆全體會議通過使用“公元紀年法”，將農曆正月初一稱“春節”，將公曆1月1日定爲“元旦”。
Because of the longitude of the world in different locations, countries of time is also different, accordingly, "new date there are also different.
Such as Oceania located in the west of the RiJieXian island-state, it is the first day of the first place, also be to celebrate New Year's country. Located in the east side of the RiJieXian XiSaMaYa is the world's most late start a new day of place. According to the calendar to count, our country is the world's first start New Year 12 countries .
由於世界各國所處的經度位置不同，各國的時間也不同，因此，“元旦”的日期也有不同。如大洋洲的島國湯加位於日界線的西側，它是世界上最先開始的一天的'地方，也是最先慶祝元旦的國家。而位於日界線東側的西薩摩亞則是世界上最遲開始新的一天的地方。按公曆計，我國是世界上第12個開始新年的國家。
【Customs習俗】
1. Kaisui(beginning of the year): According to the Chinese traditional custom, starting from haishi(9p.m. to 11p.m.)of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month, each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar.
At the same time, they too prepare food for the New Year day: The whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui). After haishi, zishi(11p.m. to 1a.m.)will come, and this is the arrival of New Year(Yuandan).
At this moment, people begin the celebration with fireworks. Vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings, and incense be burned to welcome the deities. In the ancient times, it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui.
At the same night, some families will follow the instruction in Tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the "fortune deity" during the "fortune time" to receive the deity. If the direction of the "fortune deity" is at the "ill position", people will choose to receive "happy deity" or "noble deity" instead.
2. There is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on Yuandan between the Chinese in the northern and southern regions. The northern Chinese has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside).
Some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi, hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the coin. on the other hand, the southern Chinese have the taboo for killing on Yuandan.
Therefore, they do not take meat in tee morning of Yuandan, so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter. In order to evade misfortune, they have the first meal of this day without meat. Instead, they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue.
3. What is special during the New Year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children.
People in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the eve of New Year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the New Year. Ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future.
Representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolises the elders' hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the "year".