2. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the God of Wealth is in the northeast. He will meet the God of Wealth on the fourth day, that is, around 24 o'clock in the evening of the fourth day, and prepare to meet the God of Wealth. First of all, on the fourth day, the poor gods were sent to clean the house. Dust can be swept from the inside out. You can burn incense in the house, open the window and beat the poor god with Yang Liuzhi. You can sweep the house like dust. Then at 24 o'clock on the fourth night, prepare a table, which is usually placed in the living room. If you are in the countryside, you can put it in the central hall. If it is a shop, it can be directly in the middle of the shop. Facing the northeast, you can hang the gods of wealth or write on red paper: the location where the five gods of wealth are worshipped, put them on the altar, and prepare offerings on the table, such as apples, sugar water, tea leaves, longan and flowers. Prepare incense wax and butter lamps.
Greeting the God of Wealth is a traditional folk custom. There are many stories about the god of wealth among the people. The most popular saying is that this day is the birthday of the god of wealth. Therefore, the most important activity after New Year's Day is to meet the God of Wealth-the night before his birthday, many families will hold a banquet to celebrate his birthday. Generally speaking, the God of Wealth is greeted on the fifth day of the first month of the Spring Festival. There used to be a saying, poor days. On this day, we will send away the poor and the poor in the past. The method is also very simple: clean up the garbage and useless sundries left at home during the Chinese New Year, send them to the gate and dump them, and then set off firecrackers to blow them out. On this day, you can speak freely and do things freely, and you can basically return to the state of years ago. That is to say, people basically have to go back to their places and formally enter the life of the New Year, and the life of the New Year will be smooth and smooth.