“元旦”,是合成词。“元”,开始、第一的意思,凡数之始称为“元”。“旦”,象形字,上面的“日”代表太阳,下面的“一”,代表地平线。“旦”即太阳从地平线上冉冉升起,象征一日的开始。人们把“元”和“旦”两个字合起来,就引申为新年开始的第一天。 元旦,最早始于三皇五帝。唐房玄龄等撰写的《晋书》记载:“颛帝以孟春正月为 “New Year’s Day” is a synthetic word. “Yuan”, the beginning, the first meaning, where the beginning of everything called “Yuan.” “Dan”, pictograph, the above “day” on behalf of the sun, the following “one”, on behalf of the horizon. “Dan” that the sun rising from the horizon, a symbol of the beginning of the day. When people combine the words “Yuan” and “Dan”, they are extended to the first day of the New Year. New Year’s Day, the earliest began in the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Tang Fang Xuanling, such as writing “Book of Jin” records: "Zhuan Zhungeng Meng Chun lunar month