Sanshui Spring Festival customs

1, Tian Gongsheng

The first nine days of the first month of the day, commonly known as "Tian Gongsheng", legend has it that this day for the Jade Emperor's birthday. The main customs are sacrificed to the Jade Emperor, Taoist temple fasting, etc., some places, the day, women prepared incense and candles, fasting bowls, set up in the Tianjing alleyway in the open air to worship the heavens, and ask for heaven's blessings.

2, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, one of the ancient traditional way to celebrate the New Year. The culture of Nianliu has a long history and is poorly documented. The so-called Nianliu, that is, "ancient examples of the present, the annual example", refers to the annual regular (mainly concentrated in the New Year period) organized by the group of large-scale ritual activities.

3, Yifei

Since the first month of the year, until the fifth day of the year can not be cleaned, the accumulation of feces in the toilet, so the day to do a sweep, and worship the toilet gods, the usual dirty toilet clean. So it is called "yi fei" (but nowadays, many people use newer sanitary facilities, so this custom is no longer practiced).

4, send the poor

The sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the day of the horse, in this day to send the poor, the Han Chinese folk a very distinctive custom of the year. All over China there are their own way to send poor, different. But the moral is basically the same, are in sending away the poor.

5, the market

The old custom of the Spring Festival during the size of the store from the first day of the year closed, and in the first five days of the market. Commonly known as the fifth day of the first month for the Sacred Day of Wealth, that the choice of this day to open the market will attract wealth into the treasure.