Talk about those things in the New Year (serial six) - dusting and sweeping the house to welcome the New Year

Author: Li Shoucai

Six Dust sweeping rooms to welcome the New Year

After a small year, it is generally done on the twenty-fourth day to sweep the house to remove dust, called "sweeping dust". Because of the harmonic sound of "dust" and "Chen", the meaning is "to remove Chen Buxin", and its meaning is to sweep out the obscurity and bad luck of the year, clean and clean to welcome the New Year, and pinned on the good wishes of the people to change the old appearance and welcome the new.

This sweep of dust can be described as a well-deserved sweep. Its characteristics are first, comprehensive, and second, careful. It is necessary to thoroughly clean and sort out the inside and outside of the room, inside and outside the courtyard, up and down, and in the open. Including the top of the room, the beams, and the walls are all swept away to remove the dust cobwebs. Doors and windows, tables and chairs, boxes and cabinets should be wiped down. Pots and pans, pots and pans, and teapots and wine cups should be cleaned. All the rooms and courtyards are cleaned up. In the open shed, the "plough rake rope whip (縆: the long and short thick rope set of the cattle pulling the cart and pulling the plough), the broom (the field tool), the basket basket reel and the hammer hammer" should be arranged in an orderly manner. Even the eight-seal cauldron used for cooking in the kitchen should be removed, the reverse ash should be scraped, the bellows that has been pulled for a year should be opened, and the wind plate connected to the lever should be replaced with some new chicken feathers. There is also the need to wash the curtains, curtains, sheets and clothes. Poor families can not make new clothes, wash clean can also see the new, not too old faded clothes washed to the dyeing room to re-dye it is also quite fresh and good-looking.

In addition, around the beginning of the year is also the time to concentrate on shaving the head and haircut, which also belongs to the category of decontamination and obscurity cleaning activities like dust sweeping. Vientiane is renewed, and everything starts from the "head". Start a new year and a new life with a new look, and have a new look.

Earlier, there were no clippers for even haircuts, but razors and scissors. Wash with hot water, soap and shave. It's a little shorter. Because according to the conventional rules, there is no haircut in the first month, and it is necessary to hold out until the "second shaving of the dragon head in February". Especially for children, the old hairstyle is very distinctive, the boy has bangs in front, the top is in the middle of the braid, and a small back of the head is also left a small pinch, known as "eighty hairs"; girls have bangs in front, and both sides are left with "good hair" and small braids. It seems lively and cute and very spiritual, and until now, the child figures in some paintings and dramas are still like this.

It can be seen that our nation is a nation that loves life, is industrious and loves cleanliness. What people in the world can carry out such sanitation activities as spontaneously and universally as we do? Isn't this what we need to pass on and carry forward?

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