What is the significance of the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival?

Dust removal, also known as house cleaning, house cleaning, dust removal, slag removal, dust removal, is one of the traditional folk Chinese New Year customs in China. Before a busy year, the main theme was to throw away old cloth and make new cloth. Dust removal means year-end cleaning, which is called "cleaning" in the south and "cleaning" in the north. Its original intention is to sweep away all "bad luck" and "bad luck", and to pin on the good wishes of the Chinese nation to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck.

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In addition to cleaning the house, we should also clean all kinds of electrical appliances, dismantle and wash bedding curtains, clean the willow green courtyard, and dredge the open channel culverts. North and south of the great river, the atmosphere of welcoming the new year is clean. Folklore experts say that sweeping dust not only means driving away the epidemic and praying for a healthy new year, but also means removing the "old" (dust) and promoting the new. This custom conveys a signal of the busy atmosphere of the New Year to people.

23/24 ended, and officially began to prepare for the New Year. Folk call 23/24 the year-end cleaning day. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, there is a happy atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival. According to Chinese folk sayings, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "welcome in addition to Chen", 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.