What festival is the first day of February? What's the special significance? Please, thank you.

The first day of the second lunar month is the birthday of the sun, commonly known as the birthday of the sun. Also known as "Zhonghe Festival". This was in the Tang Dynasty. Earlier, in ancient times, it was at the vernal equinox, that is, on March 2 1 day of the Gregorian calendar every year. When the sun reached the zero degree of the yellow meridian, the sun directly hit the equator, and day and night were basically the same length. Because the solar terms and vernal equinox are closely related to farming, people have always attached importance to them. There is a saying in an agricultural proverb: "Wheat rises in the spring breeze, and every moment is worth a thousand dollars". And the whole country sacrifices together, but there are state-owned ceremonies and small sacrifices at home. "Ji Sheng at the age of Emperor Jing" said: "The vernal equinox sacrifices the sun, and the autumn equinox sacrifices the moon." In the fifth year of Zhenyuan (789), Tang Dezong adopted the suggestion of Minister Li Bi and designated February 1st as the Zhonghe Festival. Sacrificing to the sun on this day is also an initiative of Dezong to encourage agriculture and pray for a bumper harvest. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, every day, the emperor held a grand ceremony of "ploughing the fields", personally helped the plow to show his importance to agriculture, and symbolically gave the farmers 100 grains; In the folk, relatives and friends drink neutral wine to worship the sun god and give each other knives and rulers to encourage farming. It reflects the desire of people in ancient society to pray for a bumper harvest. In the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi recorded the scene of the Sino-Japanese Festival in Beijing in detail in "Ji Sheng Jing Di Nian": "Shi Jing took Jiangmi as a cake, printed a golden sun to worship the sun, and peddled it around the street, saying it was a sun chicken cake. Yunma, the god of sacrifice, was named Sun. When burning silks, hang money on the five colors posted on the new portal, take it off and burn it, saying that the sun is money or food. There is a Sun Palace in Zuo 'anmen. Everyone is married and traveling to Japan. "Beijing's folk festivals have a characteristic, that is, there must be a festive diet every festival. Jiaozi on New Year's Eve, Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. The festival food of Chinese and Japanese festivals is sun cakes. " The Chronicle of Yanjing's Years Old says: "On the first day of February, people in the city made rice flour into small cakes, five on one floor, covered with chickens more than an inch long. They are called "sun cakes", and all the sun cakes are bought by worshippers, ranging from three to five. "Why is there a chicken on it? There is a folklore that when the sun rises from Tanggu, there is a hibiscus tree and a jade chicken standing on it. Whenever the sun rises in Ran Ran, it will dawn, and then the folk rooster will dawn. Some people say it's not a chicken, but a phoenix. In the Origin of the Gods, it is said that the phoenix refers to Fengshen and the phoenix is the sun. Taken together, the phoenix is a symbol of the sun. To put it bluntly, it seems that a phoenix standing on a sun cake is more beautiful. On this day, eating sun cakes was the most popular in the early Qing Dynasty. On the first day of February, after the sun came out, every family set up an incense table or hung three or five bowls of sun cakes in the courtyard, and the male parents led the male family to burn incense and worship. Women are not allowed to participate, as the saying goes, "Men can't reach Yue Bai, and women can't stand the sky". There used to be a "Sun Palace" in Zuo 'anmen, where Japanese people went to burn incense. In fact, it was spring, and people took this opportunity to go out for a walk. About 50 years ago, this festival basically disappeared. It is said that Taiwan Province Province still eats sun cakes every Sino-Japanese Festival. I wonder if it's true.

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