It is said to be in honor of Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty who fought against Japanese invasion. There is another theory, it is said to be the Taizhou Prefecture, a scholar invented, the scholar's mother believes in Buddhism, whenever the first fifteen days of the first month will go to fasting, and the first fifteenth of the Lantern Festival day his mother will be in the Buddha Hall, the scholar could not bear to see his mother in the reunion alone, so it will be one day ahead of the Lantern Festival.
It is said that Qi Jiguang in Taizhou to fight the Japanese when the Japanese siege, then just the first month, the weather is cold in the city food is not much left we do not know what to do, one day General Qi Jiguang ordered everyone to the home of the leftover food are concentrated in the square, and will be chopped up and put into the cauldron and the little flour left to make a vegetable soup to solve the hunger and cold, and so the food has been passed down from one generation to the next.
Chinese people call the 14th day of the first month of the lunar calendar the birthday of "Linshui Niangniang" (also known as "Shuntian Holy Mother"). Legend has it that the Lady Linshui, surnamed Chen, was born during the Dali period of the Tang Dynasty and later became a goddess who rescued women in difficult labor. As a result, Chinese people erected shrines to the goddess and called them "Linshui Niangniang" and "Shuntian Holy Mother". In fact, it was a protective deity for women in a time when they had no status and science was undeveloped, and a way for them to inspire themselves in fear of difficult labor.
The Tianshui area of Gansu Province, where Fu Xi is called Master Renzong, takes the 14th day of the first month as the birth date of Master Renzong, on which a festival is held. The night before the preparation of offerings, offerings are slaughtered whole pigs, whole sheep, as well as fruits and other food. The cypress trees in the courtyard are covered with tiny red paper figures. When the hour arrives, the ritual text is read, recalling the merits of the ancestors and describing the good life of the present day. After that, they make a pilgrimage to the temple, sing opera for Master Renzong, play social fire, and pray for the blessing of years of peace and longevity.