What day is the twelfth day of the first month?

The twelfth day of the first month is one of the traditional lunar festivals in China. On this day, China folk activities include hiding scissors, collecting old shoes, squeezing mice's mouths, and setting up light sheds.

From now on, people begin to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, buy lanterns and set up light sheds. There are eleven nursery rhymes, twelve light sheds, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen people turn on the lights, fifteen lines and a half months, and sixteen people turn on the lights.

The origin of the twelfth day of the first month

According to China folklore, the twelfth day of the first month is the day when mice marry their daughters-in-law. Some people say that this day is the birthday of mice, so people create various "programs" around mice, which not only express people's hatred for mice, but also drive away the villagers' hard work for a year.

On the morning of the twelfth day of the first month, before the sun rose, the aunts took their children to chant Buddhist scripture, beating the places where mice might be hidden with sticks in their hands, potholes, mouse holes in the corners, brick cracks at the roots of walls, cloth shoes under wooden cabinets, livestock sheds, woodhouses, toilets ... all corners of the house should be knocked over.