The fifth day of the first month, do not forget to "send poor", poor away, in order to receive wealth, Nafu

The folk on the fifth day of the first month called "broken five". Why call "broken" five? In fact, it is not difficult to understand. From New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month and then to the first five, in order to figure auspicious, passed down from generation to generation more taboos, and the first five is the last day of the Spring Festival, a lot of taboos can be broken after the first five. Therefore, the "broken five" of the "broken" for the meaning of broken, rather than broken.

The term "broken five", appeared in the "Yanjing times": the fifth day of the first five is called broken five, broken five within the raw rice for cooking, women are not allowed to go out. But the custom of breaking the fifth has been around since ancient times.

In ancient times, people on the fifth day of the first month of the day to send "poor God". According to legend, Jiang Ziya sealed his wife for the "poor God", the poor God wherever he went, the rich become poor, poor people even poorer, so the poor God for the world hate, Jiang Ziya ordered its "broken that is to return", so as to avoid the scourge of the world. So, the world will be the first five days of the first month as "broken" day, broken is the poor God.

On the "poor" to send, there is a broader interpretation. The whole Tang Dynasty, Volume 557, Han Yu XI - send poor text, poor for the five poor, respectively, is the wisdom of the poor, learning poor, poor literature, life poor, poor the five kinds of poor people. On the fifth day of the first month, not only should we send away the god of poverty, but these five poor should also be sent away.

So, the word "break" actually has multiple meanings: not only to break the previous taboos, but also to break the poor God and the five poor, and therefore, the first five days is also known as the "send poor day".

In ancient times, people sent poor is quite elaborate. On the fifth day, people get up early, in addition to dumplings to pinch the mouth of the little man, each family with paper made out of the body carrying a paper bag of the woman's appearance, called "five poor women", and then the house into the bag of dirt, sent to the door, lit firecrackers will be blown up and then fast.

So, on the fifth day of the first month of the year, focusing on sending poor. We should remember the following two points, the party is to send poor, poor away, in order to receive wealth, Nafu, old traditions must be emphasized.

The first point: do not string doors.

The first five poor God everywhere, to break the poor God, you need to try to avoid the door, so as not to encounter.

The second point: cleaning.

The ancients put the filth into the five poor women's bags to blow up, we do not have to bother to do the paper people, the health can be done. From the first day of the immovable broom, until the first five, but also should be inside and outside to do a big cleaning, especially for people living in the cottage, the door inside and outside should be cleaned. If the situation permits, cleaning and then put some firecrackers, will be five poor fried far away, more auspicious.