At the beginning of the five Powu Festival Customs Taboo inventory, we together long knowledge

At the beginning of the month, five were Powu, and in many places there was a custom called "drive the Five poor" (poor, poor, Wen Yu, poor, poor). People start at dawn, set off firecrackers, clean, all the unlucky things, all ghosts and goblins will go out. So what are the customs and taboos of the Powu day? Ma Honeycomb Small Series for you to introduce.

Tomorrow is Powu Festival, taking stock of Spring Festival POWU customs and taboos

Powu Custom: Collapse
Powu that day, firecrackers from each house to put outside, side and left to the door. Say is all unlucky things, all ghosts and goblins will go out, let them away from us, the farther the better. In particular, "Shina" (two rings) called "collapse of Poverty", the "Bad luck", "poor gas" from the family collapsed.

Powu Custom: Hate poor
People from the first to junior has been four days did not work, before sunrise blasting before the poor, to work hard for a day to live, said "hate poor." "Powu" means that as long as in the new Year, the painstaking and diligent will be able to live a good day. "Powu" morning into the masses pray auspicious, happy days.

Powu Custom: Cleaning
Cleaning is a thorough cleaning. Sweep the rubbish out of every house. Month 30 to the beginning of five before the general is not allowed to do hygiene, but also sweeping the floor, but only in the house sweep, garbage can only be placed in the corner of the house. Special Lunar, it is a broom can not move, said to move will be good luck lost. But to Powu this day, but not thoroughly to get a thorough cleaning. When the rubbish swept out of the door, swept to a corner, it will also be firecrackers from the house into the house, so bring a great firecracker, put on the garbage heap, lit, bang a sound, the ceremony finished. People say: "Now, all the poor gas to be driven away!"

Tomorrow is Powu Festival, taking stock of Spring Festival POWU customs and taboos

Powu Custom: Eat dumplings
Han folk popular food is eating dumplings, commonly known as "pinching people's mouth", it is said that this can be exempted from the curse of the calumny. Tianjin people powu This day, every household to eat dumplings, vegetable plate to chop ding dong rang, let neighborhood hear, to show is chopping "villain". Tianjin people put down to the "villain" of the body, remove "villain" can be a good luck, smoothly, Duanwu night set off firecrackers, also have evil to avoid disaster meaning. The original year Eve, people please God when the "dirty God" to forget. She qibuguo, then find the Maitreya Buddha unrest. Maitreya Buddha face smiles, is not oftentimes. The dirty air was fuming to the breast. Seeing things are going to be big, Nathan Le Focay to say: "So!" Today is Duanwu, let people again for you to put a few guns, pack a dumpling, cost once! This is the origin of "Powu".

Powu Custom: Shanxi
Different land, "Powu" This day of the law is not the same, is the same place, the law son is not exactly the same. Take Shanxi to say it, in the northwest of Shanxi, traditionally this day the sun did not come out, to set off Gingsi, clean some Kang soil sent to the wild, plus salute, incense, to paper; Shanxi Han folk custom is to use colored paper to cut adult images, children to the street, Exchange. Give their own paper to others, known as "send away the poor daughter-in-law", the other people's paper to return, called "Get a blessed person"; to the Jindongnan, Han folk habits will throw rotten clothes outside the wall.

Powu Taboo
This day bogey Shing friends, also forbid to visit, said is to walk pro will bring the unlucky to others home. But the claim varies from region to place. In the vicinity of Beijing, women are not allowed to visit this day, and the visit is ominous. In some parts of Henan, people do not work on this day, otherwise the year will be dilapidated.