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What is the custom of sending the poor? When is the day to send the poor?

Legend has it that in ancient times, Levin's son lived in poverty. In the first month, he died in rags outside the lane. People throw rotten clothes outside the wall as sacrifices, which is called "sending the poor"

The days of sending the poor vary from place to place, but they are all carried out on the first day of the first month.

Guangzhou Folk Custom: Sacrifice to God on the first day, worship people on the second day, and poor man's day on the third day.

Luoyang custom: send the poor on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month.

Others "send the poor", beg for surrender and throw them away on the sixth day of the first month.

When the ghost was sent, it was around 10 in the evening, at the fork in the road. Give candy, dried beans, noodles and eggs as sacrifices. Put down the sacrifice, burn three incense sticks, then pray, burn the silver paper sacrifice, and never take back the abandoned land.