What are the customs on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year

1, yi fei: yi fei this word is relatively unfamiliar to many friends, in fact, this expression has appeared in ancient times. Because the sixth day of the year is the day of the horse, this day to start business and work. This day to clean up all the filth in the house, called "yi fei". It also represents the day when the Chinese working people started to work in the fields in preparation for spring plowing.

2, send the poor: the sixth day of the horse, send the poor. Legend has it that the poor god is Jiang Ziya's wife, in order to prevent poor ghosts from entering the home during the Spring Festival, hanging red hanging paper on the door can prevent poor ghosts. On the sixth day of the first month "send poor" is also a very distinctive ancient folk custom of the year, meaning that the sacrifice to send poor ghosts (poor God), also known as the "poor child".

3, the opening of the market: the sixth day of the New Year, most of the merchants and restaurants to start business, to set off firecrackers, no less lively than New Year's Eve. The sixth day of the first month, in the old days is the size of the business "market" days, before the business firecrackers, to show good luck.

Set up in front of the stores on a pot or more pots of large orange, orange must be more, otherwise it will be empty more orange less (Guangzhou dialect harmonized "fierce more auspicious less") "intention" is not good.