The Eighth day of the Lunar New Year is believed to be the birthday of millet, an important crop in ancient China. According to the folk proverbs, if this day is bright and clear, then this whole year will be a harvest year; however, if this day is cloudy or even rainy, then the whole year will suffer from poor harvest. (It sounds more poetic in the original language.)
The eighth day of Lunar New Year is the the birthday of Yen-Lo King, who is 5th king of Legendary Hell in fifth palace. The fifth palace of the hell is under the northern-east side of the big scorching and burning stone in the sea. (Location, location, location.)
The palace has 64,000 square miles long. It contains 16 divisions of the small hells. (Be thankful you don’t have to clean it. That’s what all those idle hands are for.)
Yen-Lo King was originally in charge of the first palace of the hell. He sent the dead who died of injustice back to the human world to have a chance to clear up the false charge many times. Then he was demoted to the fifth palace of the hell. (At least he didn’t have to test rectal thermometers.)
The day is also referred to as The Completion Day – people should return from the holiday vacation and go back to work. All the meat and cake prepared for Chinese New Year should finish on this day. Everything should back to normal.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, some people release pet fish of birds into the wild to show respect for nature.
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