Chinese culture is profound, with a long history and a wealth of folklore, especially once the New Year is over, almost every day has its own customs and traditions, so what are the customs and traditions of the sixth day of the first month?
Cleaning the sacrificial toilet
In the Chinese New Year folklore, the New Year to the fifth is not allowed to clean the garbage out of the house, to the sixth, the family began to clean up, out of the garbage.
Because the sixth day is the toilet god Zigu check the toilet day, therefore, every family has to clean the toilet, but nowadays families are concerned about hygiene, clean, sweeping the floor with a sweeping robot, and then the toilet is a new bathroom, clean up the toilet, it is impossible to talk about, so the custom of cleaning the toilet basically no longer exists.
Businesses should put red couplets on their doors
On the sixth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, stores and restaurants officially open for business, and firecrackers should be set off, no less than the situation on New Year's Eve. The sixth day of the first month, in the old days is the size of the business "market" days, the door to be affixed to the "market auspicious, everything is going well" of the big red couplets. Firecrackers are set off before business to show good luck.
Send the poor god
The sixth day of the New Year is specifically said to send the "poor god", the ceremony is actually almost the same as yesterday, I suspect that the old Beijing flag people in the first five days of the God of Fortune and send the "poor God I suspect that the old Beijing flag people on the fifth day of the year to welcome the god of wealth and send "poor god" into one. According to the tradition of the Central Plains, welcoming the God of Wealth and sending the "God of Poverty" are separate. Today's ceremony is said to be: in the Central Plains, men's inferiority to women is serious, men do not care about taking out the garbage, here named housewives to the holiday accumulation of garbage thrown out of the yard, said to send the poor ghosts, the hanging paper on the door can also be removed at the same time thrown out, called sending the poor God.
Robbing the God of Wealth
On the sixth day of the year, the 12-year-old boy (heralding the six-sixth smooth), will be dressed up as a "Liu Hai" image on the street, behind his back with five small people with colorful paper or white paper cut out of the little man, who snatched the child behind the back of the small people, it is a sign that they snatched the little man! The child who snatches the little man behind his back, it is foretold that he has snatched the God of Wealth, and the person who is snatched is throwing away the God of Poverty.
Out to play
According to the traditional custom of "three, six, nine, towards the outside," the sixth day of the Lunar New Year should go to parks, squares or shopping centers and other crowded places, and in the play, but also the need to travel, play and return home to the journey, set up as a Circle, circle in the minds of the country, there is the meaning of reunion and beauty.
At the same time, it also foretells that in the new year, the errands can be finished and the wealth can be sought all the way to the hand, and people use this track circle in the hope of perfectly circling happiness, fulfillment and good luck.
Oranges
The merchants in order to get a good reputation, stalls should be placed in a pot, or more pots, pots full of large oranges, one is the meaning of the meaning of red hot, the second is the meaning of the meaning of "good luck" more. However, this custom is no longer seen.
The sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is also the birth anniversary of Grandmaster Qing Shui. On this day, people make offerings of vegetarian cakes and fruits. Praying for the coming year, Master Qing Shui Zuishi will bring wind and rain. Although this custom has been forgotten, there are still some rural places where people pay homage to ancestor Qingshui to pray that the new year will bring favorable weather conditions. This year's crops are guaranteed to have a good harvest.