What is the origin of the eleventh day of the first month

The eleventh day of the first month, one of the traditional Chinese lunar festivals. This is the day when the father-in-law feasts his sons and daughters-in-law.

The food left over from the first nine days of celebrating the birth of the God of Heaven, in addition to having eaten for a day on the tenth day of the first month, there is still a lot of food left over, so the mother's family doesn't have to break the bank, so they use this leftover delicacies to entertain their son-in-laws and their daughters, which is referred to as the eleventh day of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar in Chinese folk songs.

The eleventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is also the birthday of all crops and the day of worship of the purple nuns. In ancient times, it was an agrarian society where crops were the life of farmers and the main source of economy. Although, at that time, not even a way to solve the problem of food and clothing, but to the first month of the eleventh birthday of the crops of the day, even if the poor will be steamed at noon on a meal of rice, no rice will be used millet.

We will also go to the place where the sun grain set the tribute, burn incense sacrifice, used to pray for a good harvest of grain in the new year. On this day there is the custom of not moving needles and scissors, meaning that they are afraid of hinging the heart of the crops.

Related sayings

"On the eleventh day of the first month, when it is sunny, there is no end to the grain." The literal meaning of this saying is that if the day of the eleventh day of the first month is sunny, there will be a good harvest of grain this year, and the wind and the rain will make the grains plentiful.

This saying is summarized by the old generation through a long time of labor combined with the weather conditions, is through a long period of weather records, summed up with the corresponding year. The eleventh day of the first month is close to the "seven nine" and in the "spring" and "rain" between the two festivals. The temperature at this time of the year does not warm up significantly, and in some areas the temperature at this time of the year is about the same as that of the Big Cold. The only thing is that the temperature is no longer going down, but is trending up.

According to the old-timers, if the day is sunny on the eleventh day of the first month, it means that the temperature will gradually rise from the eleventh day of the first month and there will be precipitation. If the day is and overcast, it means that the speed of temperature rise slows down, precipitation will also become scarce, and farmers will postpone the spring plowing.