On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, "break five festivals" and on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, "send the poor". The sixth day of Lunar New Year's Eve is a day for the people to "send the poor", which is also known as Horse Day. Legend has it that when Nu Wa created all living things, it was not people who created them first, but six animals. The first day was chicken day, the second day was dog day, the third day was pig day, the fourth day was sheep day, the fifth day was ox day, the sixth day was horse day, and the seventh day was human day.

In traditional customs, Horse Day is also a day when people say "send the poor". There are thousands of doors open, and no one does not send the poor. The custom of sending the poor has a long history and was very popular in the Tang Dynasty. Yao He, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote "Three Poems to Send the Poor on a Bad Day", in which the first poem says: Every year, on this day, we drink and worship the streets. Thousands of households look at it, and no one does not send the poor.

The origin of sending the poor day

According to Song Luyuan-ming's Miscellaneous Notes on the Year of the Year, the day before yesterday, people gathered a dung broom, and when they didn't go, they covered it with seven pancakes and abandoned the thoroughfare to send them to the poor. Said is the son of the poor god ancient emperor Zhuan Xu. He liked frugality before his death, often wearing rags and only drinking porridge.

Even if someone gave him clothes, he would put fire in it and burn it. Later, it was said that as long as anyone's house was dirty on the sixth day of the first month, he would go to his house, which meant that he would be broke, so people would send the poor gods on the sixth day of the first month every year.