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"Human Day" in traditional Chinese customs
It is one of the important festivals in the Spring Festival series
The Human Day has a history of at least two thousand years in China
In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival holiday has ended, are you still immersed in the joy and celebration of the Spring Festival, and you are still unfinished? Starting today, most people will gradually turn back to their daily work and study. Today, let's talk about what customs and exquisiteness there are on the seventh day of the Chinese New Year!
man-day
The reason why the seventh day of the first lunar month is a human day stems from ancient Chinese mythology. Legend has it that Nuwa was first created, and after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses a few days ago, she created a person on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of a human being, also known as the "Man Victory Festival", "Man Celebration Festival", "Seven Days of Man" and so on.
Although the customs vary from place to place, the ancients celebrated the "People's Day", which epitomized people's hope that in the new year, the family would be happy and the families would live and work in peace and contentment.
Wearing "People Win"
Rensheng is a kind of headdress, also known as Caisheng, Huasheng.
Since the Beginning of the Jin Dynasty, there have been customs of cutting ribbons for flowers, cutting ribbons for people, or taking gold leaf to make a human form and paste it on screens, or wearing it on hair. It is precisely because the seventh day of the first lunar month is a day to think of people and pray for the blessing of Naji, so people will follow the example of Nuwa to create people, and cut out the shape of people with colored paper or brocade.
On this day, whether it is to use rensheng as a hair ornament on the head, or to "stick people to the tent", it is an indispensable folk activity of the ancients on the seventh day of the first month of the first month.
The custom of the seventh day of the first lunar month
Dai Ren wins
Ancient people had the custom of wearing "human victory", which is a kind of headdress, also known as caisheng, Huasheng.
Eat Shippo Soup
Seven treasure soups, which are made of seven kinds of vegetables, are eaten on human days to take auspicious omens, and say that this thing can remove evil qi and heal all diseases. Different products are different in different places, the fruits and vegetables used are different, and the meaning is also different. Guangdong Chaoshan uses mustard greens, kale, leeks, spring vegetables, celery, garlic, thick cloves; Hakka people use celery, garlic, onion, coriander, leeks with fish, meat, etc.; Taiwan and Fujian use spinach, celery, onion garlic, leeks, mustard greens, cabbage, cabbage, etc. Among them, celery and green onions mean cleverness, garlic means to be good at calculation, mustard greens mean longevity, and Hakka people love to cook fish together, taking the good meaning of "food is more than enough".
Fish raw
In some areas of the south, people have the custom of "fishing for fish" on the People's Day Festival, when fishing for raw fish, often many people gather around a seat, pour the fish, ingredients and sauce into a large plate, everyone stands up, waves chopsticks, fish the fish, and constantly shouts in the mouth: "Fishing! Fish! Hair! Hair! ", and to fish higher and higher, to show the step by step.
Eat noodles
Most places also have the custom of eating noodles on this day, which means to wrap noodles around the legs of the years and take the meaning of longevity. In addition, the seventeenth and twenty-seventh day of the first month are also regarded as "human days". On the seventh, seventeenth, and twenty-seventh days of the first lunar month, these three days are the "days" of children, adults and the elderly, and whoever wants to live a "day" must eat noodles.
The seventh day of the first lunar month is derived from ancient Chinese mythology. According to legend, Nuwa created the world and created people, but the little clay people would not move, and Nuwa asked the immortals for advice, and the immortals told Nuwa that people must have seven tricks to have life, and Nuwa chiseled one trick a day on the clay people according to this saying, seven days chiseled seven tricks, and people were born, so the seven days are human days, which is the birthday of human beings, also known as "Human Enlightenment Day" or "Human Victory Festival".
Today is the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, the first day of work after the Spring Festival holiday. After the Spring Festival holiday, which is relaxed and happy, with big fish and big meat, we must pack up our mood, rush to our respective jobs, and start to fight for the New Year.
Before the holiday, I always thought that there was no end to work, and in the blink of an eye, it was the seventh day of the Chinese New Year. On the first day of work, I wish everyone all the best, smooth work, and career progress.
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