What is the 20th day of the first month

The twentieth day of the first month is the Heavenly Piercing Festival, also known as the Mending Heaven Festival, which is a traditional folk festival set up in honor of Nüwa. Among Chinese folk festivals, the Mending Heaven Festival is the only one in which housewives are the main worshippers, reflecting the importance of women in family life in ancient times. The 20th day of the first month, in addition to being the festival of mending heaven, is also the festival of filling warehouses, also known as Tiancang and Timcang.

The day of the twentieth day of the first month is known as the Festival of Mending Heaven, and at the same time, it is also called the Festival of Wearing Heaven in some places. Especially in the Guanzhong area and the Hakka people, this traditional custom, but there are also set on the day of the 23rd day of the first month, according to legend, in the ancient times, the sky broke down, the volcano erupted, the floods were vast, the beasts pounced on the refugees, the giant eagles captured the children, the people were in dire straits, so they thought of the story of Nuwa Mending the Heaven, but also to commemorate the mending of heaven, so that we can easily commemorate the Queen Nuwa in the future.

There is actually another such legend about the Filling of Barns Festival. It is said that a long time ago, there was a great drought in the north, people had no harvest, and the imperial court didn't care about the people's deaths, but one of the officials who was guarding the royal granary at that time saw the starving corpses, so he opened the granary privately. This happened on the 25th day of the first month, so people called the 25th day of the first month the Festival of Filling Barns in honor of this barn official.

People worship the Cangwang on this day, which is used to pray for a good harvest for the whole coming year. As the folk also have the old days and small days Cang said, so people in the first month of the twentieth, called the small days Cang; and the first month of the twenty-fifth for the big days Cang.