What festival is the seventh day of the first month?

The seventh day of the first month is called "People's Day", also known as "People's Victory Day", "People's Celebration Day" and "People's Seven Days". Legend has it that the mother snail first created the world, and after she created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind.

The legend that people celebrate the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is mainly the theory that Nu Wa made people. In ancient times, there was a saying about the first few days of the New Year. It is because in legend, Nu Wa made a creature every day for seven days, a chicken on the first day, a dog on the second day, and a person on the seventh day. Therefore, the first few days of the year are called chicken day, dog day, pig day, sheep day, cow day, horse day and human day according to the order of Nu Wa's creation. The seventh day created man, so this day is the birthday of mankind.

Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, people had the custom of "men winning". Mansheng is a kind of headdress, also known as Cai Sheng and Huasheng. Since the Jin Dynasty, people cut the ribbon for flowers, cut the ribbon for people, or carved gold foil for people to hang a screen and wear it in their hair.

In addition, there is the custom of climbing high and writing poems. After the Tang Dynasty, more attention was paid to this festival. Every human day, the emperor would give his ministers a colorful victory, and they climbed up and gave a big banquet. If the weather is fine on the seventh day of the first month, the population will be safe and smooth in the first year.

After the Han and Wei Dynasties, People's Day gradually developed from a single divination activity to a festival including celebrations, sacrifices and other activities. In the Tang Dynasty, the Han people still attached great importance to People's Day. There is a sentimental remark in Gao Shi's poem "People Send Du Twenty Forgets" that "this year people will remember each other, and next year people will know where". It is proved that the People's Day in the Tang Dynasty is not only dedicated to praying for good luck and wishing peace, but also adds an atmosphere of missing relatives and friends.

Today, there are also wanderers who went home years ago and can't go to other places until after Everyone's Day. On People's Day, we don't travel far, visit relatives and friends, and get together at home. People usually eat long noodles in the afternoon, which is also called soul-pulling noodles. In other words, during the Chinese New Year, people are everywhere and their hearts are wild. At the end of the day, it is time to prepare for spring ploughing.

So eat noodles, find your heart, and prepare for spring ploughing. Of course, at this time, some factories and enterprises have started construction on the sixth day, so the year is getting farther and farther away, and our playful heart should slowly return and start the journey of the new year!