1, ready for cleaning. On the sixth day of the first month, it is also called "Horse Day". This day began to clean up, so it was called "fattening". People really start working or doing business on this day, which also means that farmers in the old society began to prepare for spring ploughing on this day.
2, ready to send the poor god. Sending the poor on the sixth day of the first month is a very distinctive folk custom in ancient China. "Sending the poor" is actually for "welcoming the blessings". Different places have different ways to send the poor, but their meanings are basically the same, which reflects the traditional psychology that China people generally hope to bid farewell to the old poverty and hardships and welcome a better life in the new year.
3. Prepare to discard rags. Folklore says "make minced meat, abandon rags and worship alleys" on the sixth day. Is to clean up those filth, sundries and rags. On this day, every household should not only throw away the garbage accumulated during the festival.
4. Prepare to set off firecrackers. Setting off firecrackers can "collapse poverty", so businessmen in ancient times set off firecrackers on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month to officially start their business in the new year, in order to open the market and prosper their business for a whole year.
Kaicheng custom on the sixth day of the first month:
People will find a "lovely woman", that is, a woman with a husband, children and in-laws, before the opening of the sixth day of the sixth day, and ask them to go to the store and say something auspicious, such as "the market is prosperous, there are more celebrations, everything is safe, make more money and earn a kang."
Before the market opened, women with foreign surnames were not allowed to come to the door. After the opening of the market, all Spring Festival taboos will end, everything will return to normal, and neighbors can also resume door-to-door communication. Before the market opens, people will put one or several pots of oranges in front of the store, and there must be no fewer oranges, otherwise there will be more oranges and fewer oranges (Guangzhou dialect is homophonic "fierce"), and the meaning is not good.