What to do on the sixth day of the Chinese New Year? Send poor ghosts | paint the New Year of the Tiger

The cow resigns the old age, the tiger leaps to a new journey!

On the occasion of the arrival of the New Year of the Tiger, the celebration of the New Year throughout the country is wonderful, people remove the old cloth and the new, worship the gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year... Straight News launched the Year of the Tiger New Year poster series "Painting new spring" to relive those classic Spring Festival folk customs with you.

New Year, we are serious!

Today is the sixth day of the first lunar month, have you sent a poor ghost?

Families have a tradition of sending "poor ghosts" on the sixth day of the first year. According to Han folklore, the poor ghost is the son of the ancient emperor Zhao Huan. He looked frail, always wearing tattered clothes and drinking porridge. Even if you give him new clothes, he can rip them or burn them out of the hole before wearing them, so everyone calls him "poor man". On the obscure day of the first month, the poor man died, and the palace people buried him and said, "Send the poor son today." "Since then, the poor man has become a poor ghost that everyone fears. On this day, people will throw away tattered clothes, accumulated garbage and other dirty things, indicating that the poor ghosts will be sent away, the poor will be driven away, and the new year will usher in good days and good luck.

The hundred festivals are the first, and the customs are different. The New Year customs are slightly different across the country, what are the interesting New Year customs in your hometown, come and talk to us about it.