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Chinese the Spring Festival, the time can be very long, starting from the lunar month and ending until the fifteenth day of the first month of the New Year. Before the Spring Festival, people have begun to prepare new year goods for the Spring Festival early and are busy.
Since December, people have been slaughtering pigs and sheep, curing bacon...
Chinese's attention to the Spring Festival has always been enthusiastic and affectionate.
The seventh day of the first lunar month is "People's Day", also known as "Human Victory Festival". This festival is located at a special point in time, just between the two major festivals of the New Year and the Lantern Festival.
If Chinese New Year's Eve is the most anticipated and most solemn day for hundreds of millions of Chinese, the Lantern Festival is the most important part of the end of the entire Spring Festival, then the seventh day of the first month of the first month has become the most easily ignored festival of "head heat, tail heat, and middle cold". Perhaps because the whole Spring Festival is too lively and noisy, so that people forget that the seventh day of the first lunar month is also a festival with a long history.
01 "Man's Day", a forgotten festival
Year after year, Chinese New Year, starting Chinese New Year's Eve. When it comes to the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, many people think of a working day. On the seventh day of the New Year, everyone began to get busy, and many people have returned to work and officially went to work.
Who would have thought that the seventh day of the Chinese New Year is actually a small festival that is trapped by a big festival.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, what kind of festival is it?
According to folklore, the seventh day of the first lunar month is the birthday of human beings, that is, the birthday of people, which is commonly known as "Human Day", "Human Day Festival", "Human Victory Festival", "Human Celebration Festival", "Population Day" and so on.
The history of the "Human Day Festival" on the mainland, at least 2,000 years, myths and legends, as early as ancient times, heaven and earth and all things did not have everything. Later, after the first day of the Chinese New Year, livestock and humans appeared.
From the first day of the new year to the sixth day of the new year, dogs, pigs (pigs), sheep, cattle, horses were born successively, and it was not until the seventh day of the new year that humans appeared, which is the myth of the origin of ancient Chinese humans.
Ancient societies were lowly productive, and people's understanding of the earth's universe and the nature of all things was still at a relatively low level. In addition, at that time, the medical conditions were backward, the environment was harsh, the living environment of human beings was relatively poor, and the life expectancy of human beings was relatively short, and for people at that time, the importance of population was self-evident.
To celebrate the birth of mankind, reproduction, since the Han and Wei Dynasties, people on the seventh day of the first day of the commemoration of the human day has gradually come out of a single divination for auspiciousness, and constantly expanded, has become not only involved in sacrifice, celebration, but also includes travel, food, culture and other levels of festivals, long-term past, the formation of traditional customs with Chinese characteristics.
In ancient times, since the Han Dynasty, the custom of "Human Day Festival" has begun, and it has been very popular during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, people at that time had already attached great importance to this festival. At that time, the poet Gao Shi of the Tang Dynasty also wrote that "this year people remember each other day and space, and next year people know every day."
whence? The sentiment conveyed here is not only limited to praying for happiness and peace, but also expresses a feeling of missing relatives and friends.
Therefore, it is also easy to understand why during the Spring Festival, the wanderers who are far away from home always have to work hard to go home and reunite with their relatives years ago. It is said that on the day of the ancient "Human Day Festival", people did not go out to travel far, nor did they go to relatives and friends, but stayed at home and reunited with their families.
However, with the development of the times, especially the festive atmosphere of the current Spring Festival is covered by various eating and drinking activities, people have basically forgotten that the seventh day of the first month of the first month is the "Human Day Festival".
02 On the seventh day of the first lunar month, people are greater than the sky, and "Seven Treasure Soup" is a must
On the day of the seventh person's day of the first month of the first month, people are greater than the sky. On this day, respect everyone, even if they are prisoners, they will not be punished on this day. On this day, parents can not scold and teach their children.
On the day of the Human Day Festival, the southern custom of using seven kinds of vegetables to make soups as seasonal foods is called "Seven Treasure Soups".
"Soup" means "more", which means to update and replace. Representing the beginning of the new year, all things flourish, Vientiane is renewed, on the day of man's day, it means the beginning of a new life for mankind, and the resignation of life is old and new.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, folk have the custom of eating "Seven Treasure Soup". "Shippo soup" is also seven kinds of dishes, usually including celery, garlic, green onion, coriander (coriander), leek five kinds, the other two are generally meat, fish and so on. The "seven dishes" are usually cooked in one pot, and after cooking, the whole family eats them together, and everyone must eat some.
According to tradition, eating "shippo soup" is mainly in the hope of good luck in the year. In the words of the old man, after eating the "Seven Treasure Soup", you can pick up treasure and get rich.
In general, this is mainly borrowed from the name of the seven dishes of "Seven Treasure Soup" to illustrate an auspicious. For example, such as celery, the harmonic sound "diligent", indicating that people can become more diligent after eating, garlic harmonic "calculation", there is a sense of calculation, good at business, onion harmonic sound "onion", there is a clever meaning, coriander (coriander) represents the meaning of fate, reunion, and leeks have the meaning of symbolizing the longevity of the world, fish represents the meaning of "abundance".
In addition, there is also the custom of frying flatbread (commonly known as "smoked sky cake") on the edge of the patio and eating flatbread. The old saying goes: "Seven days of man, through the chaff smoke gate to avoid the plague", it is said only so.
In some areas, on the day of the People's Day, there is also the custom of eating long noodles, which is also called "pulling soul noodles".
03 Ribbon cutting for flowers, "Dai Huasheng"
In addition, on the day of the People's Day, it is said that it is necessary to wear Huasheng. The "Chronicle of the Jingchu Years" records: "On the seventh day of the first lunar month, cut the ribbon for the people, or cut the gold leaf for the people, to paste the screen, and also wear the sideburns." And to create Huasheng to leave behind. ”
Translated, the general meaning is that on the seventh day of the first month, the shape of an adult is cut with multicolored silk fabrics, or a human figure is carved with gold leaf and pasted on the screen.
The bun worn on the woman's head is also a humanoid appearance, in order to achieve the purpose of decoration and beautification and driving away evil spirits. At that time, it was called "Huasheng", or "Huasheng", "Qiaosheng", "Caisheng".
People nowadays, the word "Huasheng" should be very unfamiliar, this word describes a kind of headdress of the Noble Ladies of the Han Dynasty, similar to the hairpins and other decorations worn by girls now, which is a kind of practical and beautiful female jewelry.
Of course, this was not initially affordable for ordinary people, and first appeared in the nobles of the imperial palace, such as the empress dowager and other women of the high-ranking nobles, who wore Huasheng to express their distinguished status and status.
Later, with the slow decline of the ritual system of the Han Dynasty, the jewelry of the noble ladies of the imperial palace gradually entered the folk and became a headdress that folk women competed to emulate and pursue.
04 Reader Jun said
With the development of the times, to the present, the ancient "Ren's Day Festival" has gradually been forgotten, especially under the impact of the vigorous and extremely grand Spring Festival, the "Ren's Day Festival" that is wrapped in the Spring Festival has almost been forgotten by people. However, no matter how the times develop, the cultural accumulation related to the "Human Day Festival" has long been imprinted in China's ancient national culture for thousands of years.
Resources:
By the National Day on the seventh day of the first lunar month, People's Day is also a food festival
Zhou Runjian, Cai Yugao, and the seven people of the first month of the first month are respected
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