What is the custom of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year? What to eat

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a custom called "Wuxi" is popular in many places. It's also a good idea to eat dumplings on the first day of the year.

Lunar New Year's Day 30 to the first five days before the first day of the first month, is generally not allowed to engage in sanitation, but can sweep the floor, can only be swept in the house, the garbage can only be placed in the corner of the house first.

On the fifth day of the first month of the Chinese New Year, people get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. The firecrackers are set off from each room to the outside, and the firecrackers are set off as they go out the door. This means that all unlucky things, demons and monsters will be blown out. Then the garbage is swept out from each room. When the garbage is swept out of the door, swept to a corner, it will also put the firecrackers from the house to the outside of the house, so bring a very big firecrackers, put on the pile of garbage, ignited, boom, the ceremony is complete. People said, "Now all the poor gas and poor people have been driven away!" Then dinner was served.

The first five days of the first month to eat dumplings, there is a saying that: from the first to the first five days within a few days more taboo, people can not "act rashly", a few days after the first five, it is basically over the New Year Jubilee, no longer prohibited, so you have to eat dumplings to congratulate. In particular, in today's Tianjin and nearby areas (such as Cangzhou City), there are "dumplings, pinch the mouth of the villain" custom, said the villain in the coming year to close their mouths, less bad words.