Customs and taboos on the sixth day of Lunar New Year's Eve

First, the custom of Lunar New Year's Eve.

1, clean the toilet

In the folk custom of New Year's Day in our country, it is not allowed to clean the garbage outside from the first day to the fifth day of the New Year's Day. On the sixth day, the family began to clean up and throw garbage outside.

Because the sixth day is Ce Shen Zigu's toilet inspection day, every household has to clean the toilet. However, today's families pay attention to hygiene and use sweeping robots to sweep the floor. Besides, toilets are all new toilets, so it is impossible to clean them. Therefore, the custom of cleaning the sacrificial toilets has basically disappeared.

Step 2 go out to play

According to the traditional custom of "3369, go out", you should go to parks, squares or shopping malls on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and set the journey of traveling, playing and going home as a circle when you play. In the eyes of China people, roundness means reunion and happiness. It also indicates that in the new year, you can finish everything and get all the money.

Step 3 catch the god of wealth

On the sixth day, a 12-year-old boy will appear in the street dressed as "Liu Hai", with five little people cut out of colored paper or white paper behind him. Whoever catches the villain behind the child means that he has caught the god of wealth, and the robbed person is equivalent to throwing away the god of poverty.

4, send the poor god

The most important job on the sixth day is to send the poor god. According to folklore, the poor god, though he was the son of the ancient emperor Zhuan Xu, was born poor. Not only did he like to eat porridge and wear rags, but he also died early in the dark days of the first month. People are used to sending poor gods on the sixth day of the first month.

5. Business is good.

The sixth day is horse day. People who are engaged in restaurants and restaurant business have a six-day break from the Spring Festival to the fifth day of the fifth year, and they really start working or doing business on the sixth day of the sixth year. When starting a business, you should not only set off firecrackers, but also put up red couplets such as "Open the market well and open the market profitably".

Second, the taboo of Lunar New Year's Eve

1, avoid rags: During the Chinese New Year, many people stay at home and seldom go out for the New Year. Most people may only wear underwear all year round. On the sixth day of the sixth day, they will go out for a walk in brand-new clean coats. It is forbidden to wear rags at this time, especially socks with holes, because the legendary "poor boy" wears it like this.

2. Don't quarrel, don't haggle: the first day of the Lunar New Year is a day when everything goes well. Don't quarrel with others this day, and haggle over every ounce after something happens. Because the new year is about to start work, you will quarrel with others and haggle over every ounce on this day. Obviously, the beginning of the new year is a bit bumpy.

The origin of the lunar new year

The sixth day of the first lunar month is also called "Horse Day". Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the traditional view is that the first day of the first month is rooster day, the second day is dog day, the third day is pig day, the fourth day is sheep day, the fifth day is ox day, the sixth day is horse day and the seventh day is human day.

According to China folklore, this is because when Nu Wa created everything, she created six animals first and then people, so the first day to the sixth day is the day of six animals.