Broken Five Festival on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

Traditional Chinese New Year's custom, the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the broken five. On this day, there is a custom called "Catch five poor" (wisdom poor, learning poor, literature poor, life poor, cross poor). Rising at dawn, setting off firecrackers and cleaning up the house expresses the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evils and disasters and to welcome auspiciousness and good fortune.

Breaking the fifth means "giving away the year", and after this day, everything will slowly return to the state before New Year's Eve.

The origin of the custom:

The origin of the "broken five" is still not the same. According to the "list of gods", Jiang Ziya sealed the gods, the betrayal of his wife as a "poor god", so that she "broken that is to return". According to myths and legends, Jiang Ziya's wife was a very annoying woman who betrayed her husband, and after she was named the God of Poverty, she became even more annoying. So people would "break" her on the fifth day of the first month to make her go back immediately.

Tianjin folk experts: In the old days, the first five days of the first month is an important day with multiple customary meanings, but its purpose are intended to "break". This day for the "send poor soil" day, people want to "poor mother" out of the door.