Send the poor on the fifth or sixth day. Should China send the poor on the fifth or sixth day?

1. On the sixth day of the first month, "sending the poor" is a distinctive custom in ancient China, which means offering sacrifices to poor ghosts (poor gods), also called "poor children".

2. 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.

Legend has it that this is because when Nu Wa created all living things, she first created six animals, and then people, so the first day to the sixth day is the day of six animals.

4, the sixth day of the first month: prepare for spring ploughing in the field, and send it out in poverty. The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is a horse day, which was called fat in ancient times. People really start working or doing business on this day. From the beginning of the first month to the fifth day, it was impossible to clean, and the feces in the toilet piled up like mountains. So on this day, I did a big cleaning and worshipped the toilet god to clean the dirty toilet on weekdays. So it is called "fat" (but now people use new bathroom equipment, so there is no such custom). This day also means that farmers in the old society began to prepare for spring ploughing.