What is the date of New Year's Day? 2017 New Year's Day traditional festival complete version of popular science

Time flies, the new year is about to come, is the 2017 New Year's Day holiday far away? Are you still wondering what day is New Year's Day? Next, let’s learn some knowledge related to New Year’s Day.

What day is New Year's Day?

2. New Year’s Day holiday arrangements for 2017. There will be three days of New Year's Day holiday in 2017, which is Saturday, December 31, 2016, Sunday, January 1, 2017, and Monday, January 2.

3. Highway conditions on New Year’s Day 2017. The highways will not be free on New Year's Day 2017. According to a document from the Ministry of Transport, a policy of free highway access for small passenger cars with 7 seats or less (including 7 seats) will be implemented during the four important holidays: Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day and National Day.

The Origin of New Year's Day

1. New Year’s Day date. The New Year's Day we are talking about now belongs to the Gregorian calendar, but the New Year's Day in ancient times was based on the lunar calendar, and the New Year's Day dates in different dynasties were also different.
2. New Year’s Day appears. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in ancient Egypt around 50,000 BC, and our Chinese New Year's Day "first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuanxu took the first month of summer as the beginning, which was actually the spring of the New Year's Day."
3. The legend of New Year’s Day. Regarding the New Year's Day in ancient times, it is said that it was to commemorate the diligence of Yao, Shun and Yu during their reigns, the day when Emperor Shun offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and the death of the former Emperor Yao. The day was regarded as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day", or "Yuan Zheng". At that time, New Year's Day and the Spring Festival belonged to the same day.

New Year's Day Traditional Culture

1. 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.
2. Now we have separated New Year's Day from the Spring Festival, but as a traditional Chinese festival, the country has included New Year's Day as a legal holiday, and people across the country take a holiday 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.