奔跑的流沙包
New Year's Day is the first day of the new year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome (though other dates were also used in Rome). In all countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, except for Israel, it is a public holiday,[citation needed] often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the Julian calendar corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year.
Agent数码Reaper
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.
花小卷2010
元旦节“元旦”叫New Year’s Day（注意大写）。顺便说一下，今天是“元旦”，那么昨天就是“元旦前夜”，它的英文说法是New Year's EveCollins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary 5th Edition是这样说的：New Year's Eve is the last day of the year, the day before New Year's Day. 元旦前夜是一年的最后一天，也即元旦的前一天。
starjing99
中国元旦习俗主要有燃放炮竹，敬鬼神，拜祭先人。一般机关，企业会举行年终集体庆祝活动，但民间活动很少。
Chinese New Year customs are mainly set off firecrackers, ghosts, the worship of ancestors. The general authorities, enterprises will be held at the end of the collective celebration, but few folk activities.
庆祝元旦的三大方式
1.全中国甚至是全世界都把元旦定为法定节日，在元旦这天放假。新中国成立后，也规定元旦为法定节日，放假一天。
2.现在比较普遍的就是由团体组织的活动，如元旦联欢会、挂庆祝元旦的标语、或举行集体活动等。以前有组织敲锣打鼓、集体跳民族舞的，到科技发展的今天，就演变为联欢晚会了，近年更是有旅游、聚会等节目。
3.保留着中国传统的庆祝方式就在于民间了，尤其是在农村。每到元旦，家家户户都会燃放炮竹，杀鸡宰鹅的，拜祭过各方神灵后，就是一家人团圆，聚一餐。
Three new year celebration way
1. Chinese even all over the world to new year's day as a statutory holiday, the holiday on New Year's day. After the founding of new Chinese, also set new year's day as a statutory holiday, a day off.
2. now more general is organized by the group activities, such as new year's Gala, hanging banners, held to celebrate New Year's day or collective activities. Before the drums, organized collective ethnic dance, to the development of science and technology today, the evolution of Gala, in recent years there is more travel, party and other programs.
3. retains the traditional way to celebrate Chinese is folk, especially in rural areas. Every day, every family will set off firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, the worship of gods is all over, one family reunion meal together.
