What festival is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year? Why do so many people set off firecrackers?

Lunar New Year, also known as "Sheep Day", is a traditional festival in China. In the old calendar, it is often said that "three sheep (yang) open Thailand" is a symbol of good luck and a day to welcome the kitchen god back to the people. On the fourth night of the first month, prepare sacrifices, cakes, incense sticks and other things, beat gongs and drums to burn incense and worship, and sincerely respect the god of wealth.

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On this day, the whole family got a discount. The so-called folding basket is a hodgepodge of food left over from cleaning up the new year's goods for a few days. Dust indoors, sweep the floor indoors, dump garbage in the yard, and prepare to "throw the poor". On this day, the cattle and sheep butcher's shop will burn incense in Ma Temple, because the sheep king, the cow king and the horse king are all enshrined in Ma Temple, and the statue of the sheep king in Ma Temple in the southern suburbs is the most famous. Generally speaking, shops should entertain large and small guys and give out red envelopes on the fourth night of the fourth day.