What are the customs of the seventh day of the first month of the Chinese New Year?

The traditions of the seventh day of the first month of the Lunar New Year include spreading pancakes, eating seven treasures of soup, wearing a man-sheng, giving a flower-sheng, fishing for sashimi, eating noodles, and sending the fire god.

1. Spreading pancakes.

Chinese folk on this day to eat spring pancakes rolled "boxed vegetables" (cooked meat food), and in the courtyard to spread pancakes, "smoky day".

2, eat seven treasures soup.

Seven kinds of vegetables made of soup, eaten on the day of people, as a good omen. Guangdong Chaoshan with mustard, kale, leeks, spring vegetables, celery, garlic, thick petals; Hakka people with celery, garlic, green onions, coriander, leeks plus fish, meat, etc.; Taiwan, Fujian with spinach, celery, green onions and garlic, leeks, mustard, capers, cabbage, etc.. Among them, celery and green onion trillion smart, garlic trillion calculating, mustard makes long life, Hakka people like to cook with fish, take the meaning of food surplus.

3, fish sang.

Some areas in the south, folk in the people day festival "fish life" custom, fish life, often many people around a full, the fish, ingredients and sauce poured in a large plate, everyone stood up, waving chopsticks, the fish material to fish, and to fish more and more high, to show that step by step.

4. Eating noodles.

Most places also have the custom of eating noodles on this day, which symbolizes wrapping the legs of age with noodles and taking the meaning of longevity. In addition, the 17th day of the first month and the 27th day of the first month are also regarded as "human days". The seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the first month of the year are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly, and whoever wants to live the "days" has to eat noodles.

5, send fire god.

In some areas of Shandong, there is the custom of sending torches, with crop stalks tied torch, lit in front of their own homes, has been sent to the village, meant to drive away the fire, praying for the new year, safe and sound, no fire.