s. new year's day is the beginning of the year on the first day.
“元”有始之意，“旦”指天明的时间，也通指白天。元旦，便是一年开始的第一天。
china's ancient new year's day is not the same month. in the first lunar month started this summer on behalf of the shang dynasty who started in december, zhou who started in november, after the emperor tongyiliuguo so, on new year's day a day in early october and since then successive xiangyan not changed and ( "historical records"). the first year of emperor wu was in the beginning, the sima qian, the creation of a "calendar was in the beginning," this youyi who started for the first month in the new year, and the summer on behalf of the provisions of the same, so called "traditional chinese lunar calendar," has been in use to the 1911 revolution. the establishment of the republic of china sun yat-sen in order to "line xia, so shun farming season; from the western calendar, so they