The custom of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month

The seventh day of the first month is also called People's Victory Day, People's Celebration Day, Population Day and People's Seventh Day. Legend has it that the mother snail created everything in the world at the beginning of creation. On the first day, she made chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, horses and people. On the seventh day, she made man, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, people had the custom of "men winning". Mansheng is a kind of headdress, also known as Cai Sheng and Huasheng. Since the Jin Dynasty, people cut the ribbon for flowers, cut the ribbon for people, or carved gold foil for people to hang a screen and wear it in their hair. In addition, there is the custom of climbing high and writing poems. After the Tang Dynasty, more attention was paid to this festival. Every human day, the emperor would give his ministers a colorful victory, and they climbed up and gave a big banquet. If the weather is fine on the seventh day of the first month, the population will be safe and smooth in the first year. Commonly known as "personal day", in most places, there is also the custom of eating noodles on this day, which means that noodles are wrapped around the legs of the years and take the meaning of longevity. In addition, the 17th and 27th of the first month are also regarded as "personal days". The seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the first month are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly respectively. Whoever wants to live a life will eat noodles.