Happy times are always so short
It was as if I was still lying on the couch watching the Spring Festival Gala yesterday
Grab the red envelope frantically with your phone
The result is a look at the calendar today
what? It's already the sixth day of the first lunar month?
That's it during the Spring Festival holiday
Silently, quickly, mercilessly
Stay away from us
Tomorrow, we will officially start working
Today
It was the last day of the holiday
In such a precious day
There is one important thing not to forget to do
That is
"Send the poor"!
The sixth day of the Lunar New Year is the day of sending the poor. Throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, and the hanging money on the door can also be thrown out at the same time, called sending "poor god". In the old days, the sixth day of the Chinese New Year was also the day when large and small merchants "opened the market".
On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, why send the poor?
Folklore
The poor ghost is the son of the ancient emperor
however
He has a quirk
He had to pull a hole in any good clothes before he could wear them
pardonable
Everybody called him "Poor Boy."
According to Mr. Qian Zhongshu's "Pipe Cone Compilation", the people of the Tang Dynasty on the mainland began to popularly send "poor ghosts", but only called "ghosts" and not "gods". After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "poor ghost" was revered as the "poor god".
The custom of sending the poor was quite popular in the Tang Dynasty, and the great literary scholar Han Yu once wrote a "Sending the Poor Text", which said: "(The master) three poor ghosts told him: 'Wen Zi Xing has a day, I have the grace of sending funds, and the son and so on are interested in doing it'? The Tang poet Yao He also wrote the poem "Three Poems for Sending the Poor on obscure days", the first of which is Yun: Every year to this day, liquor is worshiped in the street. Thousands of households look at thousands of doors, and no one does not send them to the poor. From the last two sentences, we can see that the custom of sending the poor was quite common at that time. After the Song Dynasty, the custom of sending the poor was still popular. Qing Ren Yu Quyuan's "Tea Room Three Bills and Send poor ghosts" recorded the words of the former dynasty people: Advise Lang Jun's little lady to send poor ghosts in the air.
Legend
The sixth day of the first year
If it is someone whose home is dirty
The poor god will enter whose house
This leads to phenomena such as financial ruin
Therefore, every year on the sixth day of the first lunar month, we must "send the poor"
That is, to the poor god (poor ghost, poor son)
How to send poor
The sixth day of the first year of "sending the poor"
Do a big cleaning!
Make obscenities, abandon rags, and worship in the alley. It is to clean up the filthy debris and rags and burn the sacrifice outside the door.
Offer pancakes, plantain boats, light candles, and send poor ghosts on their way.
The toilet god wants to check the hygiene, so clean the toilet.
Three six nine, go outside.
furthermore
Sending away a "poor" is not enough
We want to send "five poor"
That is, intellectual poverty, learning poverty, literary poverty, fate poverty, and poor friendship
The sixth day of the first year of the market is auspicious!
Everybody's getting busy
What does it mean to have the sixth day of the Chinese New Year?
yes
I'm going to work tomorrow!
The sixth day of the first lunar month
In the old days, it was the day when large and small merchants "opened the market"
Door panels should be attached
The big red couplet of "opening the market, everything is prosperous"
Firecrackers are set off before business
To show good luck
Before the opening of the market on the sixth day of the first year, some people find a "all-round person" (a woman who has a husband, a child, and an in-laws) to come to each house and say auspicious words in their mouths, such as "the market is open, auspicious, everything is safe, earn more silver and make more money, gold and silver earn a kang" and so on. Before the opening of the market, it is forbidden for women with foreign surnames to visit their homes, and when the "market opens", all the Spring Festival taboos will end and everything will return to normal.
From the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the first lunar month is the "New Year", the family reunites, worships the ancestral gods, and welcomes the new Nafu. From the sixth to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "New Year", the flower market is illuminated, the whole people rejoice, and the whole world celebrates.
The sixth day of the Lunar New Year
Whether you're celebrating the New Year in place or on your way back
Say goodbye to your family and friends!
May you be in the new year
All the best!
Brim!
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