Welcome the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first month, send the poor ghost on the sixth day of the first month, and send the poor ghost to make a fortune for a whole year, do you know what the correct way to send the poor ghost is?
The poor ghost not only refers to the lack of money, but also refers to the intellectual poverty, the poor learning, the literary poverty, the life poor, and the poor hand, and the five poor are also called the five ghosts.
The common practice of sending poor ghosts: the garbage from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year can be cleaned, but do not throw it away, and on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, all the garbage and discarded garbage cans, brooms and three incense sticks will be discarded to a distant place, and remember not to look back after leaving.
When the sun does not rise, the northwest region should lift the kang mat, sweep a little kang soil, throw it into the field, set off cannons, burn incense, and pay tribute to paper, and count it as the poor.
There is also a place to cut five paper figures, take a small amount of ashes, send them to the door, burn incense and set off cannons, which means sweeping the five ghosts.
There is also a very interesting couplet:
The upper link is: "Three firecrackers, a group of poor ghosts burst out." Phew, thief and dog, the murder of Lao Tzu is dead and alive";
The next link is: "Burning incense and nine burns, ushering in the God of Wealth of the Five Roads." Good old man, bless the villain's six and four happy".
Modern young people don't pay much attention to these customs, but many places still retain their own habits of sending poor ghosts, do you have any different local customs?