在古代，按公歷來說，元旦不僅僅是一月一號這一天。元旦的日期從殷朝臘月初一改到漢朝的正月初一。公元1911年，孫中山領導的辛亥革命 ，推翻了滿清的統治，建立了中華民國。各省都督代表在南京開會，決定使用公歷，把農歷的正月初一叫做“春節”，把公歷的1月1日叫做“元旦”。

元旦的由來

英文：

Legend in 4000 years ago, when the ancient yao and shun sheng shi, yao tianzi in office diligent for the people do a lot of good things, by the majority of the people love, but because his son no talent is not too good, he did not pass the "son of heaven" to his son, but to the character and ability of shun. Yao said to shun。

"you must hand over the throne to the emperor from now on. Later, shun passed the throne to yu, who did a good job in flood control. Like shun, yu loved the people and did many good deeds for the people. Later people yao died, shun emperor worship heaven and earth and first emperor yao that day, as the beginning of the year, the first day of the first month known as "New Year's day", or "yuan zheng", this is the ancient New Year's day.

傳說在4000多年前遠古的堯舜盛世之時，堯天子在位時勤政于民為百姓辦了很多好事，很受廣大百姓愛戴，但因其子無才不太成器，他沒把“天子”的皇位傳給自己的兒子，而是傳給了品德才能兼備的舜。堯對舜說：“你今后一定要把帝位傳交好，待我死后也可安心瞑目了。”

后來舜把帝位傳給了治洪水有功的禹，禹亦像舜那樣親民愛民為百姓做了很多好事，都十分受人愛戴。后來人們把堯死后，舜帝祭祀天地和先帝堯的那一天，當作一年的開始之日，把正月初一稱為“元旦”，或“元正”，這就是古代的元旦。

介紹元旦的英語作文

Today is New Years day, the weather is sunny, my heart very happy, because our family came to visit hongshan forest zoo.

First, we visited the panda, the panda panda eat bamboo while on the grass in the sunshine, I think they are so cute! And then we went to the tiger pavilion, attraction, there are around outside the fence to see the tiger! There are white tiger and the east-northern tiger, they sometimes in repose, some is constantly moving, and fall asleep! My favorite is the white tiger - tower, it is a symbiotic 27 tigers only, and all survived, so called "hero" tiger ". But it is very timid, and see so many people lie prone on the ground move.

Later, we went to see the naughty monkey, breathtaking ball screen film, play space speed, rotating flying chair, etc...

Today is really happy!

今天是元旦，天氣晴朗，我的心里格外高興，因為我們一家來到了紅山森林動物園游玩。

首先，我們參觀了熊貓館，那憨態可掬的熊貓在草地上一邊吃竹子一邊曬太陽，我覺得它們好可愛哦! 接著我們又來到了虎館，那里游人如織，都圍在柵欄外看老虎呢!這里有白虎和東北虎，它們有的在閉目養神，有的在不停地走動，還有的四腳朝天睡大覺呢!我最喜歡的就是那只白虎——辛塔，它一共生了27只小虎，而且全都活下來了，所以被稱為“英雄母虎”。但是它很膽小，見到這么多游人就趴在地上一動不動。

后來，我們又去看了頑皮的猴子，驚險的球幕電影，玩了太空飛車、旋轉飛椅等……

今天過得可真開心呀!