At the beginning of the month Five is Powu festival, you know how much

What is "Powu festival"?

At the beginning of the month five, commonly known as Powu Festival, is a long history of one of the Han traditional festivals. Because of the Han folk thought that many taboos before this day can break the name. Because this day undertakes too many people's hope and the longing, therefore ancient times this day's taboo is particularly many, for instance in this day must eat the dumpling, cannot cook with the raw rice, forbids the woman to drop in and so on. "Yanjing years old Remember" said: "The beginning of the 5th that the ' Powu ', ' Powu ' within the rice for cooking, women must not go out." To arrest day, the princess and the Eunuch and other Crown PEI exchanges, congratulations to each other. The newly married woman also mothering on the same day, and the traders also opened trade gradually. "Qing-au-type banknotes" also contains: "The beginning of the month of 5th for POWU, women are not allowed to go out."

At the beginning of the month

At the beginning of the month five, commonly known as "Powu", is the Han folk "welcome the Wealth of God" day. Many people will set off firecrackers to "welcome the wealth of God", but this will aggravate the air pollution. In fact, in addition to set off firecrackers, "Welcome wealth" in the Han folk there are many other ways.

Qing Gu Tieqing "Qing Jia Record" in the introduction of a Cai Yun bamboo words, depicts the Suzhou people Duanwu welcome the wealth of the situation: "5th Revenue 5th, a year wish to pay; "Hold the road head" namely "welcome the wealth of God". Worship Guan Monarch Merchants, in the first month Duanwu to the public for the Liquan, fire firecrackers, burning gold paper worship, ask Kuan June bless a year fortune prosperous.

Why the beginning of the 50% for the wealth of the "birthday", the main two sources: one argument is that the Song Dynasty Cai Rich, and another argument, it is related to Wang Yuanbao. Wang Yuanbao, the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan people, wealthy, by trafficking in glass rich. Wang Yuanbao Many of the habits of life such as the beginning of the five worship of the wealth of the Chinese folk customs have a profound impact, spread to date.

According to folklore experts, welcome to the wealth of the popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China period, has still been circulated. God of wealth is divided into the wealth of wealth and Wu. The wealth of God is more than dry, Wu wealth is gongming and Guan Yu. Some businesses, perennial offerings is the Wu Mammon gongming, in order to make themselves in the commercial competition, "Yi Li and the" and win, and some businesses, the worship is the red-faced Guan, Guan Yu to "righteousness" known, businessmen take its "righteousness for the benefit", that is, "righteousness" to win "profit" purpose. There are also businesses to simply three people to worship together.

Old Shanghai has the custom of snatching the road head. The first month junior midnight, prepare the sacrifice, fruit, incense and other things, and Ming gong drums incense praying, pious respectful of the wealth of God. The first 5th vulgar biography is the wealth of God's birthday, for the sake of fortune, so first in the junior, the name Yue "Rob Road Head", also known as "access to the god of wealth." As for the setting off firecrackers, it is related to the custom of "sending the poor" at the beginning of the month of the Chinese ancient Han folk. It is said that the day of the household paper-making women, known as the "cleaning Niang", "five Poor women", "five poor Niang", body back paper bag, the house Santu swept into the bag, the door outside the fire blast.

In fact, in addition to set off firecrackers, Han folk and the custom of cleaning in the Duanwu, from every house to sweep out the rubbish outside. Jiangnan generation of people also pay attention on this day to eat the wealth of God cakes, the next noodles. Because the noodles look like the ancient string of money, the following moral to the home Tim "Chan", the financial resources rolling.

Duanwu "to meet the Wealth of God" is only a popular custom of Han folk, reflecting the general hope that the new year, send away the old poverty and hardship, to greet a better life of the traditional psychology. In fact, in addition to set off firecrackers, but also need their own wisdom and diligence.