What festival is the 25th day of the first month?

The 25th day of the first month is a supplementary day, which is also called supplementary day and Tiancang day in our countryside. It is a festival for our people to worship God and hope for a bumper harvest of grain. There is a legend about this festival. It is said that many years ago, there was a severe drought in the north, and no crops were harvested. At this time, the court urged the people to pay taxes regardless of their lives, and the people were helpless. Because of this, countless people died of hunger and cold! Under such circumstances, a granary official who showed the granary to the royal family could not bear the misery of the villagers, so he took the initiative to open the royal granary and distribute all the royal grain to the victims. When the court learned about it, it sent someone to accuse him. He set fire to the granary and died himself.

The 25th day of the first month is the birthday of the warehouse owner. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival, symbolizing a bumper harvest in the new year. Whenever festivals come, people will have friends and relatives, eat delicious food and get drunk before going home. The folk custom of the bunker filling festival pays attention to the joy of entering and the dislike of leaving. On this day, food should be added to the store, water should be added to the tank, and some coal should be put at the door to curb the house, so as to achieve a smooth and prosperous year. The activities of warehouse filling festival include transporting warehouses to fill warehouses, lighting sacrifices to gods, and paying homage to warehouse management. Festivals are celebrated in different places. In some places, grain is symbolically added to the granary on Tim Cang Festival, while in other places, spring cakes, pancakes and jiaozi are eaten on Tim Cang Festival, and these grains are put into the granary, which is called filling and adding warehouses.

Because this day is the 25th day of the first month, in order to commemorate him, people fill the granaries inside and outside the courtyard with fine charcoal ash or firewood ash every year on the 25th day of the first month, which means to fill the granaries, so this day is called "filling the granaries". This is the origin of this festival. The customs mentioned are, of course, filling the warehouse, eating all kinds of delicious food, cooking fish soup, offering sacrifices to the warehouse god and so on. And every place has various forms. Speaking of taboos, of course, don't say unlucky things, don't waste food and so on.

Chengde, Hebei Province regards the 25th day of the first month as Jiacang Festival. In the evening, the night before, in the yard, make a mark with ash and put some whole grains to show the Man Cang of five grains. Generally, people in Changchun will pack jiaozi with beef or horse meat on this day, in order to win a good lottery! Every household will spread plant ash in a big circle or draw dragons in the yard, which will lead to eating rice cakes and jiaozi at noon. On the Tiancang Festival of Manchu, every household in the countryside pays attention to cooking sticky sorghum rice, putting it in the warehouse, weaving it into a pony with straw sticks and inserting it in a rice basin, indicating that the horse carries food home and has plenty of food and clothing. Add new rice on the first day and add it three times in a row.

Some people also use sorghum stalks to make two hoes and put them in their rice. This festival has been preserved in the rural areas of northeast China. In Shandong, most people eat jiaozi, and some people eat cakes. Jimo calls this day Dragon and Phoenix Day, which is made of bean flour and sweet potato flour, that is, Wowotou. In Wucheng, Shandong, eating yellow rice cake in the morning means "not slippery"; Eating dry rice is called "full ear grain"; Eating jujube cake is called "Yangfeng cake"; Some people eat noodles, called "money rope", and put some cabbage leaves in it, which means a bumper harvest of cotton.

Some people also use sorghum stalks to make two hoes and put them in their rice. This festival has been preserved in the rural areas of northeast China. In Shandong, most people eat jiaozi, and some people eat cakes. Jimo calls this day Dragon and Phoenix Day, which is made of bean flour and sweet potato flour, that is, Wowotou. In Wucheng, Shandong, eating yellow rice cake in the morning means "not slippery"; Eating dry rice is called "full ear grain"; Eating jujube cake is called "Yangfeng cake"; Some people eat noodles, called "money rope", and put some cabbage leaves in it, which means a bumper harvest of cotton.