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New Year’s Day originated in ancient Egypt

New Year’s Day is the beginning of celebrating the New Year, celebrating New Year’s Day can be said to be a common custom in all countries and regions of the world. Due to the influence of Christian countries such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Germany, and the United States for more than five hundred years, the AD calendar method has been adopted by countries all over the world.

As a holiday, New Year’s Day is not comparable to Christmas in the West, and is not comparable to the traditional Chinese New Year in China. However, due to its secular and non-religious nature, it has become a worldwide festival.

The earliest New Year’s Day came from Egypt.

Around 5000 BC, the ancient Egyptians changed from nomadic to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile River. Their agricultural harvest has a lot to do with whether the Nile River floods. The ancient Egyptians discovered from long-term observations that the Nile River flooded when Regularly, they recorded this time on the bamboo poles every time, and learned from it that the interval between the two floods was about 365 days.

At the same time, it was also discovered that when the first rising tide of the Nile River came near the city of Cairo today, it happened to be the time when the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon at the same time. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians set this day as the beginning of the year, which is the origin of New Year’s Day.

This is an earlier calendar in ancient Egypt, and it is optimized in combination with the seasonal changes of astrology (especially Sirius). The latter’s change cycle is a sidereal year, which can be approximately regarded as a regression year, and the difference between them is only about 10 minutes. However, due to a series of problems caused by the age of the lunar calendar and the incompatibility of the year of return, the calendar was gradually abandoned by political activities, and it is rarely seen in historical documents. It is only used for religious affairs. At the same time, the Egyptians also relied on Its relationship to the seasons guides production.

The Egyptians discovered that Sirius and the sun rose together, and the Nile River immediately rose. Egypt regards the day when the Nile River swells as the beginning of the new year, which is called the “Flood New Year”. The Klute people in Egypt greet the New Year by placing a table at the door, with seven or eight plates containing grains of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat, as well as small sprouts of many green plants, which symbolizes abundance. The more things you dedicate to the gods, the more harvest you will have in the new year. The Egyptian New Year falls in autumn, because the agricultural production in Egypt begins in autumn.

After the ancient Romans learned the essence of the Egyptian calendar, they formulated the Julian calendar during the reign of Julius Caesar. With the expansion of the Roman Empire, the Julian calendar spread around the world. In 46 BC, the ancient Roman emperor Julius Caesar began to regard the winter solstice as New Year’s Day. However, people insisted on taking Shuo Ri as New Year’s Day, so they extended New Year’s Day to 10 days after the winter solstice.

On March 1, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar and decided to adopt the Italian doctor Lirio’s plan. This is the Gregorian calendar we use today, also known as the Gregorian calendar.

On October 15, 1582 in the Gregorian calendar, only Italy, Poland, Spain, and Portugal began to use the Gregorian calendar. Since the new calendar was promulgated by the Pope, Protestant countries resisted it. It was not until the 18th century, on September 14, 1752, that the British Empire, including England, Scotland and now part of the United States, adopted the Gregorian calendar.

Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918.

On January 1, 1873 (Meiji 6), Japan replaced the traditional Tianbao calendar with the Gregorian calendar, but the year does not use the AD year, but the Japanese emperor’s year. Korea was influenced by Japan and adopted the Gregorian calendar on January 1, 1896. The last country to adopt the Gregorian calendar was Turkey, in 1926.