Lunar month 23 dusting is what day?

Lunar New Year's Eve 23, dusting and sweeping the house "custom , from a long time ago. Should be very early in ancient times in this custom, until now every family has retained this habit, the intention is to all "poor luck", "bad luck" are swept out the door.

Every year from the Lunar New Year (23rd day of the lunar month) to New Year's Eve, the Chinese people call this period of time "Spring Day", also known as the "dust sweeping day". Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, the north called "room sweeping", the south called "dust" dust sweeping. In the Spring Festival before the dust, is the Chinese people have traditional habits.

There are two legends about this custom. Legend one: the 23rd day of the lunar month, this is the day of the gods return to heaven, the human world as long as some of the gods of the day and the landlord and other minor gods to look after the order; Chinese folk believe that the gods go to heaven, have to wait until the evening of the fourth day of the second year, just back to the mortal world; so there is a legend, this time, even if you turn over the house, do not have to care about any details, the use of the day to move the objects or sand and dust flying more not afraid of violating the gods in the home.

The second legend has it that there is an evil god who often spreads rumors in front of the Jade Emperor, making the earth look bad. Once, the evil god secretly reported that the earth was cursing the Heavenly Emperor and wanted to plot against the Heavenly Court. The Zaoshen of each family discussed countermeasures, and its method was: from the day of sending the Zaoshen on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to the day before receiving the Zaoshen on the New Year's Eve, every family cleaned up, otherwise the Zaoshen wouldn't enter the mansion. People followed the instructions of the god of the stove, sweeping dust, dusting off cobwebs, and cleaning up the whole house. On New Year's Eve, Wang Lingguan came to earth and found that every house was clean. Wang Lingguan couldn't find any marks to mark the bad signs, so he rushed back to the Heavenly Court and reported to the Jade Emperor truthfully. Only then did the Jade Emperor realize that he had been deceived by the evil gods and sent down an order to arrest them.