According to legend, China's New Year's Day originated from Zhuan Xu, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and has a history of more than 3,000 years. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuan took the first month of Mengxia as the Yuan Dynasty, which is actually the spring of New Year's Day in Zhengshuo". During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jie Ya" in the Southern Dynasties also recorded that "New Year's Day for all four seasons, early spring for longevity".

China was the first to call the first day of the first lunar month "New Year's Day". Yuan means "beginning" and "beginning", and dan refers to "days". New Year's Day collectively refers to the "initial days", which is the first day of the year. The date on which the first day of the first lunar month was calculated was also very inconsistent before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the month and day of New Year's Day in the past dynasties are not consistent. The lunar calendar of the Xia Dynasty took Meng Xi month (Yuan month) as the first month, the Yin calendar of the Shang dynasty took the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou calendar of the Zhou dynasty took the winter month (November) as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchun month (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October as New Year's Day. Starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Meng Xiyue (January) was designated as the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar) was called New Year's Day, which was still used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. But this is the lunar calendar, that is, the lunar calendar or the lunar calendar, and it is not what we call New Year's Day today.

In 1911 AD, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. In order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so it follows the agricultural time, and it is based on the Western calendar, so it is convenient for statistics", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) was the "New Year", but it was not It's called "New Year's Day".

What we call "New Year's Day" today is September 27, 1949. The first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China. It also decided to adopt the world's common AD calendar and change the Gregorian calendar to January 1st is officially designated as "New Year's Day", and the first day of the first lunar month is changed to "Spring Festival".