A common saying about the 16th day of the first month.

The proverbs about the 16th day of the first month are as follows:

As the saying goes, you can go for a spring outing on the sixteenth day of the first month, and you won't get sick all year round. Getting rid of all diseases is a folk activity for ancient women to avoid disasters and seek happiness. Also known as staying away from all kinds of diseases. On the 16th day of the first month, after breakfast, almost every household locked the door and the whole family went out for a walk.

In this way, all the diseases are left outside, especially when you meet a bridge or ditch, you must walk over. The moral of this is that a year is not a big ups and downs, but luck turns! Just after the New Year, half a month's busyness is over. At this time, I also need to go out for a day, exercise my muscles, breathe fresh air, and see the birds and flowers, and I will feel much better.

As the old saying goes, "Send plague with plague". In the past, people designated the 16th day of the first month as the day of "seeing off the god of plague". According to legend, there are five plague gods, namely Zhang in spring, Liu Yuanda in summer, the clock in autumn and winter and the stone in charge of the world. As the saying goes, "It is easier to ask God than to send him."

Because it is a plague god, it is even more important not to offend people. On this day, ordinary people tied a boat with paper and bamboo, put sacrifices in it, and let the boat drift away along the river, indicating that it sent away the plague. Some places put gold ingots or firecrackers at intersections to drive away the plague. Because of ancient superstition that all diseases are brought by plague, I also hope that the new year will be disease-free and safe and healthy.

In many places, the Lantern Festival ends after the 15th. In order to welcome the New Year and Lantern Festival, every household will hang lanterns and colored lights at the door, and the streets will also be decorated with lanterns. On the first day of the first month 16, these lanterns and decorations will be removed. This is called Lantern Festival, which means to catch all the blessings of the New Year.

In ancient times, red lanterns that were taken down were usually destroyed and could not be used for the next year, thinking that they could not be used for the next year because they were blessed. But now in the scientific society, lanterns are stronger, and they are all electric. After the colored lights and lanterns are put away, they will continue to be used next year.