The legend and modern significance of sweeping houses on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, it officially entered the off-year period. On this day, every household began to do a general cleaning at home, commonly known as "sweeping the house". Then let's take a look at the legend and modern significance of sweeping the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Sweep the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Dust-cleaning day, that is, December 24 of the lunar calendar, is a year-end cleaning. Every household cleans cobwebs, raises dust and cleans. Although it is the "24th dust removal day", it is actually the dust removal time from before and after the sacrifice to the end of the year. In some parts of China, the period from the early years (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month) to New Year's Eve is called "Dust-cleaning Day", also called "Spring Festival Day".

The legend of sweeping dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

The ancients believed that everyone had a three-corpse god, which followed people's whereabouts like a shadow and was inseparable. Three dead gods are a guy who likes flattery and gossip. He often tells stories in front of the Jade Emperor and describes the world as ugly. Over time, in the jade emperor's impression, this world is simply a dirty world full of evil.

Once. The secret report of the Three Corpses God tells us that the world is cursing the Jade Emperor in an attempt to rebel against heaven. The jade emperor was furious and ordered to find out what happened in the world quickly. Anyone who hates gods and insults them writes their crimes under the eaves. Then let the spider cover it with a net to mark it. The Jade Emperor ordered Wang Lingguan to go down the mountain on New Year's Eve, and all the marked families were beheaded, leaving no one behind. Seeing that the plan was about to succeed, three resin gods took advantage of the gap to fly down to earth. They indiscriminately marked the eaves and corners of every household, so that the tomb palace could be destroyed. Just as the Three Corpses God was doing evil, the Kitchen God discovered his whereabouts and was shocked, so he quickly found various Kitchen Gods to discuss countermeasures. So, I came up with a good idea. From the delivery of stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the closing of stoves on New Year's Eve, every household should clean up. If any family is not clean, Kitchen God will refuse to enter the house.

Everyone follows the instructions of the kitchen god before he ascended to heaven, cleaning the dust, dusting the cobwebs, cleaning the doors and windows, and thoroughly cleaning his house. When Wang Lingguan visited the lower bound on New Year's Eve, he found that the windows of every household were bright and brightly lit, people were reunited and happy, and the world was beautiful. Wang Lingguan was very surprised that he couldn't find a sign indicating bad behavior. He rushed back to the sky, told the Jade Emperor about peace and happiness on earth, and prayed for a happy New Year. The Jade Emperor was greatly shocked after hearing this. He ordered the detention of the three-corpse god and ordered him to slap three hundred times and put him in prison forever. Thanks to the help of Kitchen God, this human disaster was spared. In order to thank the Kitchen God for helping people to eliminate disasters and bless Zhang Xiang, the folk dust sweeping always starts on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month after the kitchen stove is delivered, and is always busy until the New Year's Eve.

Since then, in order to eliminate difficulties and disasters, people send kitchen gods every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. From the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, they have to clean up the dust and Egypt. After a long time, "sending the kitchen god on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and sweeping the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" has gradually become a Han folk custom.

Modern significance of sweeping houses on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Nowadays, sweeping houses on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is not only to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, but also to carry forward the good habit of paying attention to hygiene and reducing diseases in China traditional culture, and to place people's good wishes on cleaning up, eliminating the old and welcoming the new, which has become a new trend in civilized society.