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1、What is the Origin of New Year's Day (Yuandan in ChinesePinyin)In ancient China ， New Year's Day ( Yuan Dan in Chinese Pinyin ) has been referred to the first day of the lunar calendar. Chinese character "Yuan" means "the beginning" ， Chinese character "Dan" mea
2、ns "day ， so "Yuan Dan" collectively means "the initial day" ， i.e. ， the first day of a year.On September 27， 1949 ， the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference made the resolution that People's Republic of China would adopt A
3、D chronology for chronological record of events. To distinguish between the two new years in lunar and Gregorian calendars ， given that "Beginning of Spring" ， one of the lunar twenty-four solar terms comes around the lunar new year， the first day of lunar January is renamed as the "Spring Festival" ， while the first day of the first solar month is called "New Year's Day" ， thus the two new years become festivals spent by the whole nation.