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What is the custom and significance of sweeping dust?

Sweep away all the bad luck and bad luck.

1. Dust-sweeping custom: Dust the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. When the new year comes, every household is busy cleaning up to welcome the new year. In the Yao and Shun era, there was a custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival.

2. Meaning: According to folk sayings, as "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", which means sweeping away all bad luck and bad luck.