Do you usually clean before or after the cold?

Generally, it is cleaned after severe cold.

Dust removal, cleaning, dust removal, that is, sweeping away bad luck, generally choose to start cleaning up housework, washing, sunbathing and welcoming the New Year after the cold.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. After the great cold, a new year's solar cycle is ushered in, and the great cold is the eye of the one-year cycle. Of course, according to folklore, this can sweep away a year's bad luck. There is also the custom of making gutters in rural areas, and urban residents are cleaning up their houses without gutters.

The origin of cold cleaning

After the severe cold, the Spring Festival is not far away. Every household should clean up during the Spring Festival to provide a clean and bright environment for welcoming relatives and seeing off guests during the Spring Festival. "On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to Lv Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era.

According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with joy and joy.