The traditional custom of the sixth day of the first month.

The custom of the sixth day of the first month of the Spring Festival:

1, send to the poor

Legend has it that the poor god is Zhuan Xu's son, thin and short, who likes to wear rags and drink porridge. Even if you have new clothes, you have to cut them into rags before you can wear them, so everyone calls him "poor boy" because he died on the sixth day of the first month. When he was sent away, everyone said "send the poor boy today" and later became a poor boy in folklore.

The so-called poverty alleviation means that women in the family should put all the garbage before the fifth day of the first month into bags. Then throw the garbage out.

Step 2 open the market

According to legend, Nu Wa created horses on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, so the sixth day of the Lunar New Year is called "Horse Day", and businessmen will choose to open their doors on this day, which means "success in one fell swoop". This day also means that farmers will begin to prepare for spring ploughing in the fields in order to get a bumper harvest in the new year.

In the old society, large and small businesses "opened the market", and red couplets of "opened the market and everything prospered" were put on the door panels to show good luck. After the "opening of the market", all Spring Festival taboos will end, everything will return to normal, and neighbors can resume door-to-door communication.

Step 3 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's Eve, but when you play, you need to set the journey of traveling, playing and going home into a circle, which means reunion and happiness in the minds of China people.

At the same time, it also indicates that in the new year, things can be done from the beginning to the end, and all the money can be obtained. People use this trajectory to circle, hoping to circle happiness, happiness and auspiciousness perfectly.

Brief introduction of poor god

Li Yong, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, said in the Story of Jinguyuan: "The son of Levin is thin and modest, well dressed, and has no food to eat. People use them to make new clothes, that is, they are cracked and put on the fire, and the palace is called poverty. On a dark day in the first month, the path died. People nowadays make minced meat and discard rags. I just worshipped in the alley one day and said that they would send the poor. "

According to Song Chen Yuanliang's "Guang Ji at the Age of Years" quoted from Wenzong Beiwen: "When Zhuan Xu was in high spirits, a son was born in the palace, and he was called a poor son in the palace. Then he died in the first month and was buried in the palace, saying that he would send his poor son today. "

China folklore says that this poor ghost is the son of the ancient emperor Zhuan Xu. He is weak and short, and likes to wear rags and drink porridge. Even if new clothes are given to him, he will tear them up or burn them before wearing them. Therefore, everyone called him "poor boy". In the dark of the first month, the poor son died and the imperial secretary buried him. Since then, the poor man has become a poor man feared by everyone.