The Yellow Calendar in Ming and Qing Dynasties

The reason for this phenomenon is that city dwellers have implemented the almanac promulgated by the Qing Dynasty, and the influence of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the countryside because of the backwardness of the countryside. At that time, people in the countryside were still implementing 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 time of farming and festivals marked by the yellow calendar before implementing it, so if people didn't have the yellow calendar at that time, they couldn't live a normal life. During the period of the Yellow Emperor, the monarch had already begun to make a yellow calendar to guide people's lives, and later emperors had the privilege of making a yellow calendar. After all, the monarch is the head of a country, so it is natural to make a plan for these daily lives of the people. In the seventh year of Shunzhi, urban and rural people 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, the Qing army occupied Guangzhou. Before the Qing army occupied these places, these areas were actually controlled by Li Yong. However, when Guangzhou was occupied by the Qing army, local officials had been replaced by clean officials, and then Guangzhou people began to implement the almanac promulgated by the Qing dynasty. Of course, the almanac of the Qing Dynasty is different from that of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the two official documents stipulated that the Spring Festival was not on the same day, and the calendar 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 had not yet spread to the countryside, the countryside did not even know that Guangzhou had been occupied by the Qing army at that time. So at that time, the rural areas of Guangzhou still lived 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.