高考英語作文素材：元旦的來歷

高考英語作文素材：元旦的來歷

　　時間就像一條記憶的長河,匆匆地、悄悄地流過，眨眼間，又迎來了新的一年.“四氣新元旦，萬壽初今朝”，今天是新一年的開始元旦。

　　Ancient Chinese New Years day, is not a general "Gregorian calendar" —— the Gregorian calendar on January 1. From Yin dynasty set as the beginning, at the beginning of the lunar December in first lunar month as the beginning, to the han dynasty have been repeated many times of change. To the republic of China, sun yat—sen in nanjing in early January 1912 as the temporary President for "farming", "statistics", set the first lunar month as the Spring Festival, change to the Gregorian calendar on January 1, known as the "New Year", at but it is still called "New Years day". Until the liberation of the central peoples government promulgated uniform "whole nation year section and the memorial day holiday", the Gregorian calendar January 1 as New Years day, and decided the national in this stanza day off. At the same time as the difference between two New Year the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar, and in view of the lunar 24 solar terms of "spring", just before and after the lunar New Year, so the change of the first lunar month is called "Spring Festival".

　　"New Years day", "yuan" refers to the beginning, is the first point, the beginning of every number is called "yuan"; "Dan", pictographs, the above ", "on behalf of the sun, the" a "represents the horizon below. "Denier" as the sun rises from the horizon, symbolizes the beginning of a day. People put the "yuan" and "denier" two words together, is extended to the first day of the New Year began. New Years day is also called the "three yuan", namely, the yuan, the yuan, at the time of yuan. On New Years earliest begins with three sovereigns, tang fang xuanling and others write the Book of Jin upload： "xu emperor for Meng Chun in yuan, at that time is： New Years day in the spring." That call on the yuan, the first for the denier. Southern liang people LanZiYun dielectric jas poem or cloud： "the new New Years day, four gas Wan Shouchu today."

　　古代中國的元旦日，並非如今通用的“格列歷”——公曆的1月1日。從殷代定農曆十二月初一為歲首，到漢代定在農曆正月初一為歲首,曾有多次反反覆覆的改變.到民國時孫中山於1912年1月初在南京就任臨時大總統時為“順農時”、“便統計”，定農曆正月初一為春節，改公曆1月1日稱為歲首“新年”，但仍稱“元旦”。直到解放後中央人民政府頒佈統一使用“全國年節和紀念日放假辦法”，將公曆1月1日規定為元旦節,並決定全國在此節放假一天。同時為區別農曆和公曆兩個新年，又鑑於農曆二十四個節氣中的“立春”,恰在農曆新年前後，因此改農曆正月初一稱為“春節”。

　　“元旦”的“元”，指開始，是第一的意思,凡數之始稱為“元”;“旦”，象形字，上面的“日”代表太陽,下面的'“一”代表地平線。“旦”即太陽從地平線上冉冉升起，象徵一日的開始.人們把“元”和“旦”兩個字結合起來，就引申為新年開始的第一天。元旦又稱“三元”,即歲之元、月之元、時之元。元旦一詞最早始於三皇五帝,唐房玄齡等人寫的《晉書》上載：“顓帝以孟春正月為元,其時正朔元旦之春。”即把正月稱為元,初一為旦。南朝梁人蘭子云的《介雅》詩也雲：“四氣新元旦，萬壽初今朝。”