What Dust Bowl Day is also called

Sweeping the dust day is also called the spring day.

Sweeping the dust on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, the so-called "Sweeping the Dust" is the end of the year cleaning, household cleaning cobwebs, dust, cleaning. Although "waxing twenty-four, dust day", in fact, from before and after the festival to the end of the year, are dust time. Some places in China, every year from the small year to New Year's Eve, the period is called "dust day", also known as "spring day".

Sweeping the dust both to drive out disease, pray for the New Year's well-being of the meaning, but also in addition to the "Chen" (dust) cloth the new emotional desire, this custom to the people to pass the New Year's busy atmosphere of the signal. This custom reflects the tradition of Chinese people's love of cleanliness and hygiene, and symbolizes people's good expectations, and still maintains a strong vitality.

Customs

The twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year on the lunar calendar is the day of the gods return to the sky, the earth is only some of the gods of the day and the landlord, such as the small gods to look after the order. The Chinese people also thought that after the gods went to heaven, they had to wait until the fourth night of the second year before returning to the earth. So there are legends, this time, even if you turn the house does not have to worry about any details, the use of this day to move objects or dust flying more not afraid of offending the gods at home.

The ancients set this day as the day to clean up, "dust sweeping day" and "send the gods day" the correct date, some say it is twenty-three days. Based on this book, which advocates that the government offer sacrifices on the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, it also points out that the government chooses to send the gods on the 23rd day of the year when "yin and yang" are intertwined. Therefore, it actually means that the junction time from the 23rd day to the 24th day is still the 24th day.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dust Sweeping Day