"New Year's Special" "Twenty-Four, Sweep the House"

The waxing moon song sang "twenty-four, sweep the house", let the Huashang Daily - two three miles information take everyone to understand the customs of the twenty-fourth month of the waxing moon!

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The meaning of dust sweeping day

The dust sweeping day, that is, the twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon, the so-called "sweeping dust" is the year-end cleaning, because "dust" and "Chen" are harmonious, and the dust sweeping in the Waxing Moon has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin". Therefore, sweeping away the dust in the waxing moon is to sweep out all the "poor luck" and "obscurity" in the family in the hope that the next year's fortunes will be better. There is not only the meaning of driving away the epidemic and praying for the health of the New Year, but also the emotional desire to remove the "Chen" (dust) cloth, which conveys the signal of the busy atmosphere of the New Year to people.

Because "dust" and "Chen" are harmonious, sweeping dust in the waxing moon has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin". Therefore, sweeping away the dust in the waxing moon is to sweep out all the "poor luck" and "obscurity" in the family in the hope that the next year's fortunes will be better. There is not only the meaning of driving away the epidemic and praying for the health of the New Year, but also the emotional desire to remove the "Chen" (dust) cloth, which conveys the signal of the busy atmosphere of the New Year to people.

Dust Sweep Day Legend

There is an evil god who likes to manipulate right and wrong, and often creates rumors in front of the Jade Emperor and describes the human world as ugly. Over time, in the jade emperor's impression, the human world was a world full of evil and filth. Once, the evil gods secretly reported that people cursed the Heavenly Emperor and wanted to rebel against the Heavenly Court. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was furious and sent a decree to quickly find out what had happened in the nether realm, and all those who were angry with the gods and blasphemed the gods, put their crimes under the eaves, and then let the spiders open their webs to cover up as marks. The Jade Emperor ordered Wang Lingguan to go to the nether realm on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and whenever he encountered a marked portal, he would cut through the door and leave no one behind. Seeing that the conspiracy had succeeded, the evil god secretly made a mark under the eaves of each house in the underground realm, so that Wang Lingguan could be killed. The evil god's conspiracy was discovered by the vesta god, and he hurriedly summoned the vesta gods of each house to discuss countermeasures, and the method was: from the date of sending the vesta god on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon to the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve received the vesta god, each household must come to a big sweep, and if the household is not cleaned, the vesta god will not enter the house. In accordance with the instructions of the god Vesta, 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.

Chinese New Year's Eve night, Wang Lingguan came to the human world and found that every household had a few clean windows, brilliant lights, and a family reunion and happiness. Wang Lingguan could not find the signs indicating bad deeds, so he rushed back to the heavenly court and truthfully told the Jade Emperor about the peaceful and happy situation in the world and praying for a happy New Year. Only then did the Jade Emperor know that he had been deceived by the evil gods and was very angry. He sent down his will to arrest the evil gods, to hold his mouth three hundred, to be bound to the heavenly court forever, and not to allow the netherworld to do evil.

Since then, in order to eliminate difficulties and disasters, people have sent the god of Vesta every 23rd of the waxing moon, and during the Chinese New Year's Eve night to greet the god of Vesta, they must sweep away the dust and remove the dust. Over time, it has gradually become a traditional folk custom.

(Editing by Wang Ying)

Reference source: China Net