Why can't you go out on the seventh day of the first month (People's Day)? What are the rules?

Some people say that as the old saying goes, "If you don't go out on the seventh day, you don't go home on the eighth day", so you don't go out on the seventh day of the first month and you don't go home on the eighth day of the first month.

Seven days out, eight days in. This is indeed the words of education handed down from the old ancestors. But its correct interpretation should be like this: seven does not go out. It is said that before going out, there are seven things not done don't go out. These seven things are: firewood. Rice. Oil. Salt. Sauce. Vinegar. Tea, that is, we usually say that the door seven things. In the past, the person who went out was often the head of the family, the backbone of the family, therefore, must arrange the life of the family before going out.

The meaning of "eight things not to return home" is that there are eight things not to do well, do not go home. These eight things refer to filial piety, fraternal duty, loyalty, propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame, which are the eight basic moral principles of the ancients. If you violate any of them, you will have no face to see your ancestors.

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year is the day of the Seven Deadly Signs, also known as the "Day of the Man". It is not a good day to do anything, especially going out of town, and the elders eat noodles on this day so that everyone in the family can stay at home, meaning that they can tie their legs and prevent children from running around, so that they won't be taken away by ghosts.

The seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is also known as the "Day of the Man", the "Festival of the Man's Victory", or the "seven yuan". This ancient festival has a history of at least two thousand years, ancient books such as "the first book", "Jing Chu years and times" and "West Qing Poetry," etc., all have records. Poets especially like to "Man Day" as the theme, poems to send, such as Du Fu poem: "this day at this time, people **** get, a talk and a smile common look" is. According to Taoism, there were chickens in heaven and earth, then dogs, pigs, sheep and horses, and only after that did people exist.

Therefore, it is believed that if the weather is sunny on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar year, it is auspicious and represents a year of smooth entry and exit and a safe population.

On the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, seven kinds of vegetables are eaten, including celery, green onion and garlic, which symbolize hard work and cleverness. At the same time on the seventh day of the first month, seventeen, twenty-seven are "people" days, to eat noodles, which is divided into the seventh is a child's day, is tripping children's legs, blessing the children smooth and smooth, grow up in peace; seventeen is the day of the middle-aged people, to trip the legs of the middle-aged people; twenty-seven is the day of the elderly, to trip the legs of the elderly.

But in the north, especially in Shandong, Liaoning area, the first seven do not eat noodles but eat dumplings, because small children and is to denigrate their own "villain" pronouns, and dumplings is to pinch the mouth of the villain, so that they are able to be less in the year by the villainous bad words of the attack and denigration.