When is Valley Day?

It is said that everything in the world was created by the goddess Nu Wa. Before the pre-Qin period, combined with the ancient astrology, the legend of Nu Wa making chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, horses, people and food was formed.

There are eight days later, a chicken, a dog, a tapir, a sheep, a cow, a horse, a man and a valley. Sunny days are the main nourishment, and yin is a disaster. "This is the folk miscellaneous books of the alchemists in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Six animals are divined in one year, and the grain is abundant.

Both the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty designated the seventh day of the first month as the "People's Day" festival, so the "Valley Day" on the eighth day of the first month spread among the people and had a strong vitality. Legend has it that this sunny day indicates a bumper harvest and favorable weather this year.

Valley day activities

1, Guangu

On the day of the ancient festival, the whole family left the city and went to the countryside. Adults introduce basic agricultural knowledge to children, and the whole family watches the growth of various overwintering crops, so that children and adults can get close to agriculture and help children establish a sense of respecting agriculture, farmers and cherishing food. In the process of experience, children are also inspired to care for the ecological environment.

Step 2 eat cereal

After returning home, the children cooked a cereal dinner for the whole family. For example, let children steam steamed bread with flour, make noodles by themselves, wash rice by themselves, and cook porridge by themselves. Adults will only give necessary guidance, not replace it. Only in this way can children truly appreciate the preciousness of food and the difficulty of labor.