At the beginning of the month five Powu festival, in the end is what?

Is the beginning of the five commonly known as Powu Festival, also known as Parki Festival, also called Send Poor festival.

Powu's "broken" has the meaning of breaking, that is, Duanwu to break all the taboos in the previous 5th, such as women do not move knives, no cleaning, no damage, etc. Broke the taboo, arrest shops began to open. After a few days of recuperation, people began to work again.

The most troublesome holiday taboo is not to move the broom, you think, these days do not say anything else, only the firecracker crumbs is annoying enough, do not sweep can do? So Duanwu break bogey, clean, collect rotten dirt, very necessary. People in the past superstitious, the rotten dirty as a symbol of poverty, the door to the door, so this day is called to send the poor festival.

I did this job when I was a child. About 1942, my family lived in the Nan Guan Stone. Powu night, the family will be rubbish in two baskets, let me and my brother  a basket, carrying red gauze, told us to go out after the direction of the South auspicious god, the rubbish will be poured out. At that time, the street was a dirt road, much higher than the sidewalk.

We walked out of the gate, next a few steps, to the east to the bridge to the south, poured out the rubbish, met a few neighbor to send poor, we each other way "congratulations", and then handed away.

Cleaning is the performance of hygiene, reasonable, superstitious people put rubbish in the direction of Kyrgyzstan, but also the United States its name Yue sent poor, this custom, although the new year to add a mysterious color, but some funny.

Nowadays, the custom of sending the poor has faded, only to retain some impressions in my memory. (Kordon Guo Yan)