關於元旦的英文

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yuandan is the first day of the lunar calendar. it is the day when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is beginning another circling. it represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones. as the first day of the year, yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times.

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".

西元前46年，古羅馬凱撒把這一天定為西曆新年的開始，為了祝福Janus，這位羅馬神話中的門神，Janus後來也演化為英文一月January這個詞。原本以為教皇把耶穌誕生年作為西元元年，西元一月一日也和耶穌有關聯，現在看來並非如此。可能依照西方普遍信仰基督教，還應該是12月25日耶誕日為過年，所以西方的新年沒有耶誕隆重。

大約在公元前五萬年左右，古埃及人已由遊牧改為農耕，定居在尼羅河兩岸，他們的農業收成與尼羅河是否發生洪水有很大關係。古埃及人從長期的觀察中發現，尼羅河氾濫的時間是有規律的，他們就把這個時間每次都記錄在竹竿上，從中得知兩次氾濫時間之間大約相隔365天;同時還發現，當尼羅河初漲的潮頭來到今天開羅城附近的時候，也正好是太陽與天狼星同時從地平線上升起的時候。於是，古埃及人便把這一天定為一年的開始。這是"元旦"最早的由來。

元旦是慶賀新年的`開始，歡度元旦可説是世界各國各地區的普遍習俗。

現在，世界上大多數國家把每年1月1日作為元旦，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新的一天的地方，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。

阿富汗把春分作為元旦;猶太人把秋分作為元旦;而寒帶的愛斯基摩人的元旦是不固定的，他們把第一次下雨作為元旦。公元前46年，羅馬皇帝儒略·凱撒制定儒略曆，開始時他把冬至作為元旦。但是，人們堅持要把朔日作為元旦，因此就把元旦延到冬至後10天。

按公曆計，我國是世界上第12個開始新年的國家。各個國家由於其歷史、文化、宗教信仰、民族習慣不同，也都有自己不同的慶祝。不過，這也使得這個世界多姿多彩，更顯地域、民族特色了。