Known as "Chengdu's special annual custom", why is "Everyone's Day" so special?

The annual Spring Festival holiday lasts from New Year's Eve to the sixth day. The seventh day is the first day of official work, but most people don't know that the seventh day is also a special festival for us human beings? People's day. According to the myths and legends in China, it took Nu Wa Niangniang six days to create chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, horses and other animals, and on the seventh day she created people. This day is regarded as the birthday of mankind, and the seventh day of the first lunar month becomes a traditional festival every year? Men's Day, also known as Men's Day, Men's Day is seven days, and Men's Day is Victory Day.

People's Day has a history of more than two thousand years in China. Han dynasty began to appear, and people paid attention to it after Wei and Jin dynasties. Men's Day was a very important festival in ancient times. At first, it was used to predict good luck and bad luck: if the weather is fine, people will be safe and smooth this year. On this day, people wear clothes to win prizes, eat noodles, eat seven treasures, weigh themselves, travel high, drink and write poems, and so on. Later, People's Day was gradually forgotten. Today, with people's busy work and increasing pressure, the annual customs are becoming more and more simplified, and Everyone's Day has gradually faded out of everyone's sight.

But in Chengdu, a land of plenty, because? Poet saint? Du Fu and People's Day have a special origin, forming a special annual custom in Chengdu. Du Fu is a great realistic poet in China. He was brilliant and had a rough life. In his early years, he failed many times in scientific research, and in his middle age, he suffered an Anshi rebellion. He went to Chengdu to avoid disaster and lived in Chengdu. Du Fu Caotang? , wrote more than 240 poems here. After Du Fu's death, his fame grew with the spread of his poems, and the thatched cottage where he once lived was also enshrined by later literati in memory of Du Fu. Since the late Qing Dynasty, it has gradually become a unique local folk activity in Chengdu.

Now Chengdu citizens also call friends to Du Fu Cottage in the western suburbs on the seventh day of the first month to participate in the annual People's Day Tour of Cottage.