1, offering sacrifices to the god of wealth
Sacrificing the God of Wealth is not only a tradition in the south, but also in many places in the north of China. According to folklore, the God of Wealth is also known as the Five-way God, that is, the God of Sacrificing Households, the God of Kitchen, the God of Land, the God of Doors and the God of Walking. The so-called five-way god refers to the east, west, north and south, which means that you can get wealth by taking five roads.
Step 2 send the poor
On the fifth day of the first month, "seeing the poor off" is a unique custom among the ancient people in China. It means offering sacrifices to poor ghosts (poor gods). There are many nicknames for sending the poor, such as "sending the five poor", "driving the five poor", "sending the poor soil" and "sending the poor clothes". According to folklore, from New Year's Day to Friday, you can get rich without taking out the garbage, otherwise you will be "blessed". However, there are too many garbage dumps, which, after all, affect health, so it is stressful to dump them out on the fifth day of junior high school. This is called "sending the poor".
Step 3 clean the house
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Cleaning is thorough cleaning. Sweep out the garbage in every house. Before the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifth day of the first lunar month, cleaning and sweeping are generally not allowed, only in the house, and garbage can only be placed in the corner of the house first. Especially during the Chinese New Year, you can't move the broom. If you move, you will lose your good luck.
But on the day of the fifth lunar month, it is necessary to have a thorough cleaning. When the garbage was swept out of the door and into a corner, firecrackers were also placed outside the house, so a huge firecracker was brought, placed on the garbage dump and lit, and the ceremony ended with a bang. People say: now, the poor are driven away, so they eat.
4. Meet the Road God
The road head is also called "Five Road Gods". It is said that there was a Five-way God at the end of Yuan Dynasty who died to resist foreign invasion, so people worshipped him as a god and called him "Five-way God". However, it seems that the five gods have nothing to do with who the God of Wealth is. Or the five-way god is actually the five-way god, or the five-way god. After Tang Bin banned Fang from going to Wu Tong Temple in the Kangxi period, the people dared not worship the Five-Road God, so they changed their names to Reuters.
Generally, this kind of road head is regarded as absent-minded in the ancient five sacrifices, and the so-called five roads are also east, west, north and south; Wealth and goods follow the road, so people regard walking as a god of wealth and are willing to offer sacrifices, hoping that it can make money or make profits when traveling. It is the custom of "ancestral way" for the ancients to travel and sacrifice to the road gods for peace; When the martial arts meet the Taoist head, it is the Taoist god who sacrifices, and this Taoist god becomes the god of wealth.