Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and early in the morning I heard the cannon sound of "ping pong" to welcome the God of Wealth, this is the cannon of "breaking the five", let go of the cannon, the taboos in the New Year Festival will be released, and the streets will be closed

Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, early in the morning I heard the cannon sound of "ping pong" to welcome the God of Wealth, this is the cannon of "breaking the five", let go of the cannon, the taboos in the New Year Festival will be released, and the shops and stalls on the street that are closed and closed will resume business. Of course, this is just the old custom of the past, and now the big shopping malls in the city do not rest at all during the Spring Festival. There are also wanderers who go home for the New Year in other places, after firing the cannon, after the New Year, and then eat a meal cooked by their mother, it is time to embark on the road to leave their hometown.

My family doesn't do business, no one is outside, and I didn't care about these things since I was a child, and what I remember most clearly is that every year on this day, my mother would wake me up early in the morning and let me go to "send the poor gods". When I was a child, I went with my father, but when I grew up, my father stopped going, and it was completely handed over to me. Happy to play for the New Year, slept late, came out of the hot quilt in a daze, held a garbage can in his left hand, and held a bunch of firecrackers and two kicks in his right hand.

The garbage was saved in the past few days of the New Year, and from the first to the fourth day of the new year, the family could not throw things outside, so it was all placed here, dead and heavy. It represents the "bad qi", "poor qi" and "musty qi" in the home, and sending it far away means sending away the "poor god" in the family, and the next year will be auspicious, rich and happy.

Sending away the "poor god", the next thing is to welcome the god of wealth, open the gate, and set off firecrackers. The family took the lead, and everyone responded, which soon pushed the atmosphere of welcoming God and Nafu to a climax.

Now that firecrackers are banned, the taste of the year has faded, those old customs have gradually been forgotten, and in a few decades, I am afraid that all that remains is the idea of vacation.