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What are the customs on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year in Zhejiang?

1, sacrificial stove

Since we have to send the God of the stove, of course, the "sacrificial stove" ceremony, which is the most important activity on the day of the New Year. On the day of the New Year, it is actually the festival of each family to send the God of the stove to heaven, to be after a year of smoke and fire, has been the old God of the stove portrait unveiled. At the same time, every family should "invite" back a new frame of the Zao Wang statue.

2, sweeping dust

Sweeping dust is mainly all the rooms thoroughly cleaned once, housewives usually first housewares with a sheet and other furniture cover up, with a headscarf or towel will be wrapped up, and then use the broom will be up and down the walls sweep clean. After sweeping, scrub the tables and chairs, rinse the floor, with clean, neat and bright to welcome the New Year.