What are the customs on the fifth day of the Spring Festival?

On the fifth day of the Spring Festival, the customs are: offering sacrifices to the god of wealth, sending the poor, cleaning the house, picking up the roadside gods and setting off firecrackers.

1, offering sacrifices to the god of wealth

Sacrificing the God of Wealth is not only a tradition in the south, but also in many places in the north of China. According to folklore, the God of Wealth is also known as the Five-way God, that is, the God of Sacrificing Households, the God of Kitchen, the God of Land, the God of Doors and the God of Walking. The so-called five-way god refers to the east, west, north and south, which means that you can get wealth by taking five roads.

Step 2 send the poor

Sending the poor on the fifth day of the first month is a distinctive custom in ancient China, which means offering sacrifices to the poor. There are many nicknames for sending the poor, such as sending the poor soil and clothes. According to folklore, it will be a blessing to dispose of the garbage on New Year's Day instead of throwing it away.

Step 3 clean the house

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people start cleaning at dawn. Cleaning is thorough cleaning. Sweep out every household's garbage, and cleaning is generally not allowed before the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month and the fifth day of the first month.

4. Meet the Road God

Reuters, also known as Five-way God, is said to have died in the end of Yuan Dynasty to resist foreign invasion, so people worshipped him as a god and named him Five-way God. After Tang Bin destroyed Fang Shang's Wu Tong Temple during the reign of Kangxi, the people dared not worship the God Wu Tong, so they changed their names to Reuters.

Step 5 set off firecrackers

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household will set off firecrackers. People will use firecrackers to let them come out of every household and walk outside the door, which means blowing out all unlucky things and all monsters. Keep them away from us, especially kicking them to make them poor, and bring bad luck and poverty away from home.