At the beginning of the Spring Festival, Chengyun practiced the Cangxiao
Spring Festival cleaning is a necessary task for every family years ago. So how did this custom come about? In addition to the annual cleaning, which is beneficial to people's health, in addition to dusting out new cloth, driving away disease and poverty, there are also many legends and stories flowing out.
Why clean before the Spring Festival?
"Twenty-fourth of the waxing moon, dust sweeping the house"
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According to the "Lü's Spring and Autumn", China had the custom of sweeping away dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao Shun era.
According to folk sayings: Because of the harmonic sound of "dust" and "Chen", the New Year dust sweeping has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep out all the poor luck and obscurity.
Every spring festival comes, every household must clean the environment, clean various utensils, dismantle and wash the futon curtains, sprinkle the courtyard of Liulu, dust and dirt cobwebs, and dredge the open channel ditch.
Everywhere is filled with a joyful atmosphere of joy and hygiene, clean and clean to welcome the New Year.
"Pick up the God of Wealth, meet the God of Wealth, the God of Wealth smiles at you"
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Legend has it that there is a three-corpse god attached to the body of the person, who often gives small reports to the Jade Emperor and says bad things about the world.
In a very short period of time, the Jade Emperor received 99,999 secret reports from him, saying that the human world was going to rebel against the Heavenly Court.
The Jade Emperor was furious when he saw this, and immediately summoned the Three Corpses God and ordered him to write down their crimes on the wall of the jade emperor's house, and then let the spiders form a large web and hang them under the eaves. The Jade Emperor also ordered Wang Lingguan to Chinese New Year's Eve night netherworld, and all those who saw the three corpse gods making marks would cut down the door.
Seeing that the conspiracy was about to succeed and that he could monopolize the beautiful human world, the Three Corpses God quickly descended and marked the walls of each household.
The stove jun discovered the conspiracy of the three corpse gods, and hurriedly found the stove prince of each family to discuss the countermeasures: from the date of sending the stove, the house was cleaned before the Chinese New Year's Eve. When Wang Lingguan was Chinese New Year's Eve ordered to inspect the netherworld, he found that every household was very clean, without any markings, and the people were safe and kept to themselves and worked hard.
The Jade Emperor learned from Wang Lingguan and Zhao Jun that the Three Corpses God had wronged a good person, and he was furious and imprisoned the Three Corpses God forever.
Since then, the kind-hearted stove king has been supported by everyone, and every year on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, the stove will be sacrificed, and the twenty-four dust sweeping has also become a folk custom.
How much influence "sweeping power" has on today
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Of course, this is the story handed down by the older generation, but not only the Spring Festival, but now a new word has been born - sweeping power.
Do an interesting test first: take a look around your room; If you're not at home, think back to what your room looked like when you left the house not long ago: whether there was dust on the floor; whether there were mountains of expired magazines on the couch; whether the closet was messy; whether the kitchen stove was stained with oil...
If so, then be careful, your life may be in jeopardy.
This is not alarmist, but stems from the philosophy of life that has swept the globe: the power of sweeping.
Your room is like yourself
After years of research, Harvard Business School has found a phenomenon: successful people with strong happiness often have a very clean and tidy home environment; Unfortunate people, on the other hand, usually live in messy and dirty. By the small family and everyone, a successful enterprise, often the window is clear; On the contrary, a business on the verge of bankruptcy must have dirty corners.
So I came to the conclusion that the room you live in is a reflection of yourself, and your life is actually like your room." ”
As soon as this remark came out, the whole world was in an uproar, some were non-committal, and some had an epiphany.
"If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world?" A small "sweep" word can even become a sustenance and expectation for the world.
The process of cleaning is the process of processing, choosing, and discarding, and it is your interaction with the environment. The uncluttered environment clearly shows your logic and organization.
Cleaning is a physical work, after cleaning, it is time for us to treat ourselves well, at this time how uncomfortable it is not to plate food!