The date of Chinese New Year, in different dynasties. Xia dynasty in January, at the beginning of shang dynasty at the beginning of December, Zhou Chaoding in November, at the beginning of the qin dynasty was set for October the first. To the beginning of the western han dynasty (104 BC), of the first year of emperor accepted sima qian and others recommend the use of "the beginning calendar", restored a summer is the lunar calendar, for the first month and at put 24 solar terms in a calendar. Later dynasties, though a modification about calendar, but basically still in "the beginning calendar", in a summer Meng Chun for the beginning of the first, the first day for New Year's day, the first lunar month ganjitsu, namely, the first day of the New Year.
After xinhai revolution in 1911, the qing rule was overthrown, sun yat-sen set up the government of the republic of China in nanjing. Provinces DouDuFu representatives held a meeting in nanjing, to discuss the calendar. Reached at the meeting "line a summer, so the suitable season; from the western, so statistics" consensus, decided to use the Gregorian calendar, the calendar on January 1, custom-built "New Year", the first lunar month is called "Spring Festival", but has not officially named and promotion. On September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese people's political consultative conference by using "Gregorian calendar dating method", the Gregorian calendar on January 1 as the "New Year's day", must be known as the "Spring Festival" at the beginning of the day of the first lunar month and the Spring Festival holiday three days, let people warmly celebrate the lunar New Year.
In the course of two thousand years of history, our country has experienced germination, finalize the design, the New Year custom fission, transformation of the development process.
中國新年的日期，在各朝代並不相同。夏朝定在一月初一，商朝定在十二月初一，周朝定在十一月初一，秦朝定在十月初一。到西漢太初元年(公元前104年)，漢武帝接受司馬遷等人的建議使用《太初曆》，恢復了夏曆即農曆，以正月為歲首，把二十四節氣訂入曆法。後來歷朝歷代雖對曆法有過修改，但基本上仍然以《太初曆》為藍本，以夏曆的孟春正月為歲首，正月初一為元旦、元日，即新年的第一天。
1911年辛亥革命以後，清朝統治被推翻，孫中山在南京建立中華民國政府。各省都督府代表在南京召開會議，討論曆法問題。會上達成了“行夏曆，所以順農時;從西曆，所以便統計”的'共識，決定使用公曆，把公曆1月1日定做“新年”，把農曆正月初一稱做“春節”，但並未正式命名和推廣。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“公曆紀年法”，將公曆1月1日定為“元旦”，把農曆正月初一定名為“春節”，並規定春節放假三天，讓人們熱烈地慶祝農曆新年。
在兩千多年的歷史進程中，我國的新年禮俗經歷了萌芽、定型、裂變、轉型的發展過程。
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