Today is a very important day before the Chinese New Year, so Lin Tian's family got up very early, and the grandparents prepared breakfast early, with boiled gruel, sweet potatoes, etc.!

After the family finished breakfast, they were ready to start sweeping the dust!

Today is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, which is the so-called dust sweeping day, and the so-called "sweeping dust" is the year-end cleaning, where every household cleans the cobwebs and dusts and cleans. Although it is said that "24, the dust sweeping day", in fact, from before and after the sacrificial stove to the end of the year, it is the dust sweeping time.

In some rural areas, every year from the 23rd day of the lunar month to Chinese New Year's Eve, this period of time is called "Sweeping Day" or "Spring Day".

Sweeping dust not only has the meaning of driving away diseases and praying for good health in the New Year, but also has the emotional desire to remove "Chen" (dust) cloth, which sends a signal to people about the busy atmosphere of the New Year. This custom reflects the Chinese people's tradition of loving cleanliness and paying attention to hygiene, and embodies people's beautiful expectations, which still maintain tenacious vitality.

The big guy started to prepare, first from the back room to gradually clean outside!

Grandma first took out a piece of wide white cloth from the side room, and then Lin Tian covered the white cloth in the living room, tables, chairs, benches, incense desks, beds, wardrobes, TVs, etc., all of which had to be covered with white cloths, so as not to clean the dust from the roof and fall on it.

While Lin Tian was spreading the white cloth, the cousin found a long bamboo pole from the outside, and then tied a broom to the bamboo pole.

After Lin Tian finished finishing it, the cousin raised a long broom and walked into the big house to clean up. The houses in the countryside are mainly brick houses and tile houses, so there is a lot of dust accumulated over the year, in addition to dust, there are not many cobwebs, although there are no spiders on it, but it looks like it will make Lin Tian uncomfortable for a while.

While the living room was being cleaned, the grandparents, father, mother, and sister-in-law were not idle, and as for Lin Tian's little nephews and nieces, they all let them go outside to play.

Every year from the Lunar New Year to Chinese New Year's Eve, the folk call this period "Spring Day", also known as "Dust Day". Sweeping is the year-end cleaning, which is called "sweeping the house" in the north and "dusting" in the south.

Sweeping the dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit that people have had since ancient times. Every Spring Festival is coming, every household has to clean the environment, clean all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash bedding curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of Liulu, dust and cobwebs, and dredge nullah culverts. The north and south of the river are filled with the atmosphere of joy, joy and hygiene, clean and clean to welcome the New Year.

There are many legends about the origin of this dust-sweeping, one is that the twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day when the gods return to heaven, and there are only some small gods such as gods on duty and landlords in the world to take care of the order; Chinese folk think that after the gods go to heaven, they must wait until the fourth night of the second year before returning to the mortal world; so there is a legend that during this time, even if the house is turned over, there is no need to worry about any details, and it is not afraid to offend the gods at home by moving objects or flying dust on this day.

Therefore, the ancients decided that this day was the day to be cleaned.

The correct dates for "Sweeping Day" and "Sending God Day" are said to be the 23rd. The "Five Classics of Differences" says that in ancient times, the government sacrificed to the stove on the 23rd, and based on this book that advocates the 23rd day of the government's sacrifice to the stove, it also points out that the government chose to send the gods at the time of the "yin and yang" intercourse on the 23rd.

Therefore, in fact, it refers to the junction time from the 23rd day to the 24th day, which is still the 24th. Most of the Chinese in Southeast Asia originated from Fujian and Guangzhou provinces, and were influenced by local folk customs, so the Chinese in Southeast Asia generally regarded the 24th as the first day of "sending the stove" and "sweeping the dust".

Another legend says that in ancient times there was a god called the evil god, who was very fond of telling right and wrong, and often spread rumors in front of the Jade Emperor and described the world as ugly. Over time, in the impression of the Jade Emperor, the world was a world full of sin and filth. Once, the evil god secretly reported that the world was cursing the Emperor of Heaven and wanted to rebel against the Heavenly Court. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was furious, and issued a decree to quickly find out what was wrong in the lower realm, and all those who were angry with the gods and blasphemed the gods should write their crimes under the eaves, and then let the spiders cover them with webs as signs.

The Jade Emperor ordered the king to be in the Nether on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and whenever he encountered a marked portal, he would cut down all the doors, leaving no one behind. Seeing that the conspiracy had succeeded, the evil god secretly went to the underground realm to make a mark under the eaves of each house, so that Wang Lingguan could kill them all. The conspiracy of the evil god was discovered by the god of the stove, and he hurriedly summoned the gods of the various families to discuss countermeasures.

The method is: from the day of sending the Vesta God on the 23rd day of the lunar month to the Chinese New Year's Eve to receive the Vesta, each household must come to a big dust, and if any household does not clean it, the Vesta God will not enter the house. In accordance with the instructions of the god of the hearth, people swept away the dust, dusted off the cobwebs, wiped the doors and windows, and cleaned the inside and outside of their houses, in front of and behind the houses, and around the courtyard.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Wang Lingguan came to the world and found that every household had bright windows, brilliant lights, and a happy family reunion. Wang Lingguan could not find a sign indicating bad deeds, so he rushed back to Heaven and truthfully told the Jade Emperor about the peace and happiness in the world and praying for a good New Year. Only then did the Jade Emperor know that he had been deceived by the evil gods, and he was very angry. issued a decree to arrest the evil god, with three hundred palms and mouths, and forever confined to the heavenly court, and did not allow the lower realm to do evil.

Since then, in order to eliminate difficulties and disasters, people must sweep the dust and remove the ashes during the 23rd day of the lunar month, and during the greeting of the Vega God on Chinese New Year's Eve. Over time, it has gradually become a traditional folk custom.

At the same time, according to the ancient classics, there are also many records, and even ancient humans can be traced back to the Yao Shun era......

In about half an hour, the dust and cobwebs on the top of the living room were swept away, and the floor and white cloth were covered with falling dust......

"Xiaotian, what are you looking for?"

The cousin on the side saw that Lin Tian lowered his head and didn't know what he was looking for, so he asked him.

Lin Tian said solemnly: "I'll see if any spiders have fallen, and I'm going to kill them." ”

"Eh!" When the cousin heard Lin Tian's words, he immediately froze, and then said: "Why are you fighting spiders, it doesn't bite you, and besides, spiders in the winter are basically hibernating." ”

"I don't care if it bites me or not, anyway, I get goosebumps when I see a spider, and I feel sick if I don't kill them. Lin Tian replied directly, and at the same time, a pair of eyes were still staring straight at the ground, for fear that there would be hibernating spiders falling into the web.

The spider in the countryside is generally relatively large, although it is generally said that the toxicity is small, but its terrifying appearance is enough to make people afraid, especially Lin Tian, a person with arachnophobia.

Therefore, as long as he sees a place with spiders, Lin Tian will not hesitate to "clean up" it......

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