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Customs on the seventh day of the first month A brief introduction to the traditional customs on the seventh day of the first month.
1, eat noodles. 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 days of the first month are also regarded as "personal days". On the seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh day of the first month, these three days are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly respectively. Whoever wants to live the "days" will eat noodles.

2. Send Vulcan. In some parts of Shandong, there is a custom of sending torches. Torches bound with crop straws are lit in front of their own houses and sent to the outside of the village, which means to drive away fires and pray for peace and no fire in the new year.

3. People's Day. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, as a small festival in the Spring Festival, it is said that this day is the birthday of human beings, which is also called "People's Victory Day", "People's Celebration Day", "Population Day" and "People's Seventh Day". According to China folklore, Nu Wa 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 people, so this day is the birthday of mankind.