Welcoming the God of Wealth is on the fifth day of the first month.

The fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the day when Chinese folk "welcome the God of Wealth". According to custom, this day to climb up to pick up firewood, because "firewood" and "wealth" consonant, "pick up firewood" that "pick up wealth! ". Folk has been rumored that "empty-handed out, holding firewood home".

Welcoming the God of Wealth, ascending the heights, burning incense and praying for blessings, holding wealth (firewood) and other customs, all highlighting the long history of traditional Chinese cultural heritage, adding the flavor of the New Year and the joy, inherited the emotions and hopes.

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Customs of the Spring Festival

Strictly speaking, "New Year's Eve" is actually a period of time. Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, a "New Year's Rhyme" organizes what to do on New Year's Eve: sweeping the house, bathing, and preparing food ...... to welcome the New Year with a lot of hustle and bustle.

The first major event to welcome the New Year is probably New Year's Eve, also known as "New Year's Eve", "New Year's Eve". The "Shuowen Jiezi" said, "the evening, the sun goes down", the word can be derived from the night, in addition to the meaning of easy and alternating, together with the meaning of "the old year to this evening and remove, tomorrow that is another new year".

On this day, people have to post New Year's paintings, Spring Festival couplets and lucky words, and some also have to put on the windowpane. Patterns are generally very festive, there are auspicious fortune, fortune and longevity, there are blossoming peonies, there is no shortage of the year's Chinese zodiac, such as the year of the Ohio stick on the cute pig-shaped paper cutouts, is very appropriate.

New Year's Eve dinner is the most lively and enjoyable time on New Year's Eve. A variety of delicious dishes in the year before already prepared, the North must also eat a grand row of dumplings, with Laha vinegar and Laha garlic, color and taste of the double; the South to eat rice cakes or rice ...... dumplings shaped like "Yuanbao", rice cakes harmonic "year high", are a good omen of reunion.

Eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the usual need to watch the New Year's Eve. Adults sit around the table, children run out of the house with lanterns, spread in the yard or roadside sesame stalks stepped loudly, this is called "stepping on the year", through the "sesame blossom and high" meaning, looking forward to a year better than a year.

The old saying goes, "One night is a double year, and the fifth night is two days". The old year was sent off with a bang, and another year's worth of memories were frozen in time.

The first day of the year to the first seven every day have to pay attention to

Eat the New Year's Eve dinner, but also took back the Zao Wang Wang, stepped on a firecracker confetti residue, the first day of the first month of the year as a rule, is to go to the relatives of each family "New Year's Day". People put on new clothes and prepare tea and sweets to entertain the guests.

Feng Zikai wrote in New Year's Eve, "The morning of the first day of the new year was busy entertaining New Year's guests. The streets were crowded with peasants in new clothes, men and women, old and young, bustling about, eating siu mai, going to taverns, buying flower paper (i.e., New Year's paintings), watching juggling, and crowding everywhere."

Strictly speaking, in the old days of folklore, from the first day to the first seven, what to do every day, with ups and downs, endings, transitions, quite rhythmic.

Wang Juan, an expert in folklore, has followed the situation. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she said, people draw chickens, eat "wuxing pan" and swallow chickens, just to name a few.

"Drawing chickens" is an old ritual. Legend has it that Nuwa first created chickens, dogs, pigs, goats, cows and horses in six days, and after accumulating experience, she created people on the seventh day, which is therefore called Chicken Day, Dog Day, Pig Day, Goat Day, Cow Day, Horse Day, and People Day. Drawing a chicken and sticking it on the door to show that you are honoring the beginning.

Wu Xin plate is more interesting: in the first day of the first month of the day, to use onions and leeks and other five kinds of pungent flavor of vegetables placed in the plate for food, to take the meaning of welcoming the new, but also in line with the imminent arrival of spring, the natural law of all living things.

The second to sixth days of the New Year are almost always a time for rest and fun. Not to mention the food and toys at the temple fair, the variety of performances alone can be a sight for sore eyes for children.

The "Day of the Man" is more important, and involves honoring the ancestors of the humanities, the two emperors, Yan and Huang. In some places, a small figure is cut out of paper and pasted on the bedroom tent. More elaborate, they cook "seven vegetables soup" (also known as "seven-colored soup") to eat, is said to be able in the days to follow all the good things.

What is interesting, however, is that in the period from the first day to the seventh day of the month, there is a single "broken five" in folklore, which is the fifth day of the first month.

Ancient society, the material life is not rich enough, busy at the end of the year, may not be able to everyone have a successful Spring Festival. However, there is always something to look forward to in the New Year, so the people set out a lot of taboos, hoping to have a good start to the year.

For example, it is important to say nice things and not to scold children, especially on the first day of the year, as this will bring bad luck to the children; and it is also important not to rush people out of bed on the morning of the first day of the year, as it is believed that the other person will be rushed into doing something throughout the year.

And of course you can't break anything. In case of an accident, you should quickly say a "year (broken) peace" to take away the bad luck. From the first day to the fifth day of the month, you can't sweep the garbage out of the door, otherwise it will take away the good fortune.

This is obviously not a realistic way to spend the entire festival. Therefore, the folklore soon appeared "broken five", which stipulates that once this day, the taboos of the first days of the Lunar New Year can be broken.

Breaking the five" should also be lived in a very ceremonial way: "send poor", to meet the God of Wealth. People get up early in the morning, set off firecrackers and clean up. The firecrackers are set off as they go out the door, signifying that all unlucky things will be driven out.

Yanjing Times and Seasons records, "the fifth day of the first five is called 'broken five', 'broken five' within the raw rice for cooking, women are not allowed to go out. To the sixth day, the princesses and eunuchs and other crown cape to and fro, congratulate each other ...... and the merchants also gradually open trade carry on.

So, the "broken five" to, also means that the first stage of the New Year's activities are basically over.

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