The custom of giving the poor to the poor.

People in most parts of Shanxi have to clean the courtyard on the Poverty Festival. On this day, the Han people pay attention to "love in and hate out", especially taboo to borrow things from other people's homes. Shouyang and other counties pay attention to carrying water from the outside in the morning, which is called filling the poor and eating more noodles. The southern part of Shanxi pays attention to slicing with a knife and cooking it, which is called "cutting five ghosts". There is a folk song in the north of Shanxi: "Break five noodles and hit a stone in one acre." On this day, women generally don't move their needles.

The tradition of Yicheng and other counties in southern Shanxi is to send their ancestors off on the fifth day of the first month. In the evening, remove the sacrifices displayed on the ancestral altar, set off firecrackers, burn incense and worship, and move your mind to the original Buddhist shrine. Next Spring Festival, we will offer sacrifices again. The custom in Fushan and other counties is to burn incense and paper outside the door, which means to send the ghosts of ancestors outside the house. The folk custom of the Han nationality in Yanbei area is that after the change of dynasty, women have to go out of the gate, burn paper to pay homage to the dead and cry loudly, commonly known as mourning day.

On the sixth day of the first month in Baode County, there is a custom of frying beans to eat, which is said to avoid causing flies in summer. In some places in the south of Shanxi, it is customary to gouge out the eyes of the goalkeeper on the sixth day of the sixth day for fear of causing trouble.