The sixth day of the first lunar month is Horse Day, also known as the Day of Sending The Poor
Sending the poor is one of the most important characteristic customs on the sixth day of the first lunar month. According to civil surveys, on this day, the women in the family should put all the garbage before the fifth day of the first lunar month into a bag. Then throw this garbage out. This is called sending the poor. And poverty refers to the poor god, which can also be said to send "poor god".
What is the "Poor God"?
According to folklore, the poor god was the son of the ancient emperor, who liked to be frugal, wear ragged clothes, and drink porridge. Even if someone gave him clothes, he would put them on fire and burn them. Legend has it that if it is on the sixth day of the first month of the first month, whose home is dirty will enter this home, resulting in the phenomenon of breaking the wealth, so every year on the sixth day of the first month of the first month, garbage should be thrown away and sent to the "poor god".
Shimoda prepares for spring ploughing, and the poor are sent out
The sixth day of the first year is Ma Ri, known in ancient times as Ru Fei, and people really start working or doing business on this day. Since entering the first month, it has not been cleaned until the fifth day of the first month, and the feces in the toilet have accumulated, so on this day, a big cleaning is done, and the toilet gods are worshipped, and the filthy toilets are cleaned up on weekdays. Therefore, it is called "fat" (but nowadays, people mostly use new bathroom equipment, so there is no such custom). This day also means that farmers in the old days began to go to the fields on this day to prepare for spring ploughing.
Han folk customs are known
◆ Make rice, discard torn clothes, worship in the alley. It is to clean up the filthy debris and rags and burn the sacrifice outside the door.
◆ For pancakes, banana boats, light candles, send poor ghosts on the road.
◆ The toilet god wants to check the hygiene, so clean the toilet.
◆ Three six nine, go outside.
The city was opened at the beginning of the sixth year
According to Han customs, the sixth day of the first year is the day when shops open, and the release of firecrackers symbolizes that this year's business will be prosperous, peaceful and safe, and auspicious. In the old days, the boss and the clerk would shake the abacus on this day, beating the weighing plate with the scale rod, so that the store was loud, taking the meaning of "loud and loud, auspicious". On the sixth day of the first lunar month, in the old days, it was the day when large and small businesses "opened the market", and the door panel should be affixed with a 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.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the sixth day of the sixth month
Six six big shun
On the sixth day of the first lunar month,
Follow the wind with you,
Shunyi quietly hides his heart,
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Downwinds and smooth waters often have,
Please follow you around,
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The eyes are easy to do,
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Family compliance,
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