The seventeenth day of the first month is February 26th, 2024. This is the ninth week of Monday in the Year of the Loong. The 17th day of the first month is one of the traditional lunar festivals in China. There are many festivals on this day, such as "Popular Day", "Dragonflies and Scorpions Fly Around", "Mice Marry Neil", Lantern Festival, Closing Day, Acupuncture Day, White Tiger Teeth Opening Day, Ghost-pulling, Miao "Mungo Festival" and "Pearl Empress Worship" in Fenggang. There are also festivals on the 17th and 18th of the first month, which are called "sending scorpions to dragonflies". Also at night, there was a bonfire in the yard. But people no longer jump over bonfires or dance around them. Staring at the firewood and watching it burn to ashes, I took the shovel out of the house. Dump the ashes that haven't been extinguished under the slope or on the side of the road with a shovel, which means to send scorpions, scorpions and other poisonous insects away. This year, the whole family is flat and no longer bitten by poisonous insects. The festival of sending scorpions is accompanied by the custom of cleaning. Hard-working farmers shovel the garbage in the yard together when shoveling ash.