February 29, the twentieth day of the first lunar month, is a special day, rich in customs and legends.
The twentieth day of the first lunar month is known as the "Heavenly Wear Festival", also known as the day to make up for the sky, and it is rumored to be the day when Nuwa makes up the sky. Folk have the custom of spreading pancakes and baking round cakes to imply mending the sky. Of course, Nuwa uses multicolored stones to mend the sky, which can only be expressed in a symbolic way.
The twentieth day of the first lunar month is also the warehouse filling festival, which symbolizes the full warehouse of grain, indicating that this year will be a bumper harvest and a happy life.
Regarding the twentieth day of the first month, there is a proverb: "Look at the sky on the twentieth day of the first month, and you don't need to ask the gods for a year." This sentence means that this day is extraordinary, and it can predict the agricultural prospects of the year of the dragon. Agricultural production is closely related to weather conditions, and if the wind and rain are good, it will be a good year.
Look at the sky on the twentieth morning of the first month, and you don't need to ask the gods for a year" This agricultural proverb tells us that in the past, when people were looking forward to a good year, they often pinned their hopes on the gods, which is a custom and culture, through the ancient divination ritual to ** the auspicious and evil of the year. However, if it is on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, people can know the quality of the year in advance according to the weather of that day, and there is no need to ask the gods for divination.
If the 20th day of the first month is sunny, it indicates that this year will be a good year for a bumper harvest. Specifically, "the 20th day of the first lunar month" means that in the festival of mending the sky, the sun is shining, the spring flowers are blooming, and people happily carry out spring ploughing, sow seeds of hope, and look forward to the harvest of autumn.
"Every grain warehouse" means that when the grain is harvested, it will be a bumper harvest year, the grain is full, and the granary of every household is full, which is a symbol of a good year.
"If it rains on the 20th day of the first month, it indicates that the next 45 days will be cloudy and rainy, the weather will be wet and cold, and there may be cold weather, which will be an unfavorable day.