What to eat on the 25th day of Heavenly Barn

The twenty-fifth day of the first month is a traditional Chinese folk festival "fill the warehouse festival", praying for the New Year of the festival of the harvest, this day to fill the family's rice tank and refrigerator, but also to fill the water tank, meaning that a whole year of food and clothing without worry. In addition, this day should also eat millet rice, drink miscellaneous noodle soup, do not eat big fish, meat, but to eat a light meal, to love food, thrifty and frugal. And, the kitchen and the place where the grain is stored should be cleaned well to symbolize welcoming the year of harvest!

In folklore, there is the custom of playing single hoarding on the 25th day of the first month, and double hoarding and money hoarding on the 2nd day of the second month. However, these old customs and traditions have disappeared in most areas as time and living standards have improved. Some areas still have the custom of "filling the warehouse", which mainly reminds people to clear the warehouse and sweep the hoard from this day onwards, dry the seeds, repair the agricultural tools and prepare for spring plowing. According to the old man said, in the past every hoarding the first day before dark, families will clean up the yard. Wait until the day of the 25th of the first month, to catch the sun out before the pre-prepared wood ash with a shovel end, in the middle of the yard to draw a large round grain hoard, next to the ladder will also be painted, said the granary is very large.