What festival is the first day of the eighth lunar month?

The first day of the eighth lunar month is Xu Zhenjun's Christmas. The story of one man's enlightenment comes from Xu Zhenjun, and the first day of August is also called "Festival of Sacrificing Wind". Xu Zhenjun, a famous Taoist figure in Jin Dynasty, surnamed Xu Mingxun. He lived in a clean government, saved the people, abandoned the government and returned to the East.

In ancient times, the first day of the eighth lunar month was the Day of Medicine, dedicated to the Yellow Emperor and Zeebe. It is said that the Yellow Emperor consulted Zeebe, and there are medical books in the world, but later he thought they were gods. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people had the custom of collecting dew to make Mingmu capsules and sunburn, and the day of taking medicine came from this.

In the traditional calendar of China, the change period of the moon phase is the length of the moon, and the "24 solar terms" of the dry calendar are added, and the year is based on the length of the tropical year of the sun. By setting leap months, the average calendar year adapts to the tropic year.

The lunar calendar is a calendar based on the lunar calendar and combined with the solar calendar. Strictly speaking, it should not be called the lunar calendar, but the combination of yin and yang.