Elaboration on custom dust removal in Spring Festival.

Dust removal is dust removal, dust removal day, that is, the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the year-end cleaning. Every household cleans cobwebs, raises dust and cleans them up. Although it is the "24th Dust Removal Day", it is actually the dust removal time from before and after the sacrifice to the end of the year. In some parts of China, the period from the early year (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month) to New Year's Eve is called "Dust Clearing Day", also called "Spring Festival Day".

Sweeping dust not only means driving away the epidemic and praying for a healthy New Year, but also an emotional desire to get rid of the "old" (dust). This custom conveys a signal of the busy atmosphere of the New Year to people. This custom reflects the tradition of China people's love for cleanliness and hygiene, embodies people's beautiful expectations, and still maintains its tenacious vitality.

Extended data:

In ancient China, people had the custom of New Year. In ancient times, the New Year specifically referred to "beginning of spring" with 24 solar terms in the official calendar. In the solar terms of beginning of spring, the alternation of Yin and Yang and the revival of everything mean that a new cycle has begun. Later, due to the change of the calendar, the New Year usually refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Celebrating the New Year has a long history. In the process of development and inheritance, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as sweeping dust, holding new year's goods, posting New Year's greetings, having a reunion dinner, observing the New Year, giving lucky money, paying New Year's greetings, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods, offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year's greetings and so on.

References:

Customs of Spring Festival-Baidu Encyclopedia