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What festival is the seventh day of the first month? What do you do that day? What's the custom?

First of all, the seventh day of the first month is called "People's Day". The seventh day of the first month is also called "People's Victory Day", "People's Celebration Day" and "People's Seventh Day".

People's Day is "People's Peace Day", and the seventh day of the first lunar month is the "People's Day" in the traditional customs of the Han nationality, and it is one of the important festivals in the Spring Festival series. According to experts' writings, People's Day has a history of at least 2000 years in China. Legend has it that the mother snail first created the world, and after she created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind.

According to Han folklore, Nu Wa created everything in the world at the beginning of creation. On the first day, she made chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, horses and people. On the seventh day, she made man, so this day is the birthday of mankind.

Second, the custom of the seventh day of the first month 1, Dai Rensheng

Women make figures out of colored paper, silk and soft gold and silver and wear them on their heads. Still posted on the screen, etc.

2. Sending flowers won

People make all kinds of flowers and give them to each other.

Step 3 eat noodles

There is also the custom of eating noodles on this day, which means that noodles are wrapped around the legs of years to get longevity.

4. Send Vulcans

In some places in Shandong, there is a custom of sending torches. Torches tied with crop straws are lit in front of their houses and sent outside the village, which means to drive away the fire and pray for a safe and fire-free new year.