What is the meaning of roasting fire on the tenth day of the first month

Baking the rat fire, to burn all the old and broken things used in the year, such as old brooms, cooking utensils and so on. I look forward to a new year full of good luck, full of hope. However, early the next morning, before the sun comes up, must be burned the night before the firewood ash clean, the cleaner the better.

The tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, one of the traditional Chinese folk festivals, known as the Stone Festival, for the stone god's birthday, known as the "stone mill day", "ten children day", "stone does not move" and so on. The day is not allowed to move the stones and grind them. This day is not allowed to move the stone and mill, mill, stone mortar and other stone tools, the common belief that otherwise it will hurt the crops.