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Live according to the yellow calendar

This phenomenon occurs because people in cities have implemented the almanac promulgated by the Qing Dynasty, but the influence of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the countryside, because the countryside is backward. At that time, people in rural areas still carried out the almanac implemented in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is a strange phenomenon that urban and rural residents celebrate the New Year on different days. In ancient times, people needed to rely on the Gregorian calendar to live. People need the farming time and festival time marked by the yellow calendar before implementing the yellow calendar, so if people didn't have the yellow calendar at that time, they couldn't live normally. During the period of the Yellow Emperor, the monarch had begun to make a yellow calendar to guide people's lives, and later emperors also had the privilege of making a yellow calendar. After all, the monarch is the head of a country, so it is natural to make plans for the people's daily lives. In the seventh year of Shunzhi, people in urban and rural areas did not celebrate the holidays on the same day. This is because there were two monarchs at that time, one was the emperor shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and the other was Emperor Li Yong in the Ming Dynasty. In the fourth year of Li Yong, Guangzhou was occupied by the Qing army. Before the Qing army occupied these places, these areas were actually controlled by Emperor Li Yong. However, when Guangzhou was occupied by the Qing army, local officials were replaced by the Qing officials, and people in Guangzhou began to implement the almanac promulgated by the Qing Dynasty. The almanac of the Qing Dynasty is definitely different from that of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the two official scripts stipulated that the Spring Festival was not held on the same day, and the almanac of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the Spring Festival was one month earlier than that of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the people in the city first received the order to carry out the almanac promulgated by the Qing Dynasty. So everyone began to celebrate the Spring Festival of the Qing Dynasty, but because the influence of the Qing Dynasty did not spread to the countryside at that time, the countryside did not even know that Guangzhou had been occupied by the Qing army. So at that time, the countryside of Guangzhou was still living the Spring Festival of the Ming Dynasty. The festivals of urban and rural residents are not on the same day, which reflects that the change of dynasties has had a great impact on people's lives.