When is the seventh day of the first month? Why do you eat noodles?

The arrival of the seventh day of the first month symbolizes the end of the Spring Festival holiday. The seventh day is also the time for everyone to start working, and it is the first day of work. So what kind of traditional festival is Qixi? What are the traditional customs? Is there anything to pay attention to? Let's take a look.

There are many exquisite customs in the Spring Festival on the seventh day, and there are corresponding traditional customs almost every day. These folk customs symbolize people's yearning for a better life and expect a smooth and prosperous life. According to traditional folklore, the seventh day of the first month is the birthday of mankind. According to legend, Nu Wa created chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows and other animals before creating human beings on the seventh day, so this day is also called "Human Day".

The ancients believed in "the unity of heaven and man", and Gao Shi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "An Addendum to Send Toure Every Day": This year, people forget the sky, and next year, people know where. In ancient times, the "People's Day" on the seventh day of the first month not only had folk activities such as divination, celebration, sacrifice, eating noodles, climbing mountains, and chanting poems to pray for Naji, but more importantly, it showed respect for "people" and added a layer of thoughts of missing relatives and friends. This is a very warm festival.

Why do you eat noodles on the seventh day of the first month? In the tradition of China people, what to eat in various festivals is very particular. For example, you eat jiaozi on the first day of the first month and Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, but you want noodles for your birthday. Eating bowls of "longevity noodles" and "birthday noodles" will make you live longer. Since the seventh day of the first month is "the birthday of mankind", eating noodles on this day has become a holiday food.

In the past, people would make long and thin noodles to eat on the seventh day of the first month. Thin is similar to "thin" and "thin" means "longevity".

Homophonic, so eating noodles on the seventh day is to wrap the years with noodles and realize people's long-cherished wish of slowing down time.

It is also full of people's long-cherished wish to pray for health and longevity. In addition, some places think that the seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the seventh lunar month are "People's Day", and many older people regard the seventh day of the seventh lunar month as an auspicious day. Eating noodles these days has the significance of protecting people's health and longevity.

Seven-dish soup or seven-dish porridge China people always like to use auspicious food in the Lunar New Year. They will eat seven-dish soup or seven-dish porridge on this day.

Seven vegetables soup is a soup made of seven vegetables. People choose to eat it on human days, hoping to get a good sign. Traditionally, people who eat seven dishes of soup a day can dispel evil spirits and cure all diseases. There are no fixed seven kinds of vegetables in seven dishes and one soup. The real estate is different, the materials are different and the intentions are different.

Seven dishes in Chaoshan, Guangdong: mustard, cabbage, leek, spring vegetables, celery, garlic and thick-petalled vegetables;

Seven dishes of Hakka soup: celery, garlic, onion, coriander, leek with fish and meat.

Seven vegetable soups in Taiwan Province Province and Fujian Province: spinach, celery, scallion, leek, mustard tuber, shepherd's purse, Chinese cabbage, etc.

Various dishes in the seven-dish soup can represent different meanings, such as celery and onion, garlic, mustard and longevity. Hakka people like to use fish with ulterior motives. Eating fish means eating more. The funniest thing is that if someone is missing a few dishes and goes to someone else's field to pick up seven pieces, he will not be regarded as a thief that day.

Fishing raw fish Fishing raw fish, also known as colored fish, is short for fishing, fishing raw fish or fishing raw fish ("fishing" means "mixed" in Cantonese). On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, people's day fishing is popular in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and there are fishermen in Guangdong. On this day, they use raw fish instead of seven dishes of soup or seven dishes of porridge.