What day and festival is the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019?

What day and festival is the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019?
What day and festival is the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019? The sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019 is February 10, 2019 in the new calendar. A year's plan begins in spring, and almost every day in the first month of the lunar calendar is a festival. InkMr.com's special topic on the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019 lists these traditional Chinese festivals and festival customs for you.

What day and festival is the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019?

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the traditional view is that the first day of the first lunar month is the Chicken Day, the second day is the Dog Day, the third day is the Pig Day, the fourth day is the Sheep Day, the fifth day is the Ox Day, the sixth day is the Horse Day, and the seventh day is the Human Day. Therefore, the sixth day of the first lunar month is also called Horse Day. On this day, people want to send away the god of poverty. Legend has it that the god of poverty is Jiang Ziya's wife. In order to prevent the god of poverty from entering their homes during the Spring Festival, people hang red notes on their doors to ward off her. Since the beginning of the first lunar month, the toilet cannot be cleaned until the fifth day, and feces accumulate in the toilet. So on this day, a thorough cleaning is done, and sacrifices are made to the toilet god to clean the usually dirty toilet. Therefore, the sixth day is also called "Yifei".

What are the customs on the sixth day of the first lunar month?

1. Official opening <br /> On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially open for business, and firecrackers are set off, just as loudly as on New Year's Eve. The sixth day of the first lunar month was the day when all businesses, big and small, would "open for business" in the old days, and a big red couplet with the words "Good luck in opening the business, and everything will go well" would be posted on the door panels. Firecrackers are set off before opening to bring good luck.
2. Sending away poverty <br /> A very distinctive seasonal custom among the ancient Chinese people. There are many different opinions about this day to send away poverty. In Sui Shi Guang Ji. Ren Ri, "one day before Ren Ri, people sweep up dung and gather it on brooms. Before people go out, they cover the dung with seven pancakes and throw them on the streets to send away poverty." The seventh day of the first lunar month is Ren Ri, so it is expressed as the sixth day here.
3. Eat Donkey Rolls <br /> On the day of the Horse, the family should buy Donkey Rolls for the poor boy. Donkey rolls, also known as bean flour cake, is one of the famous traditional snacks in old Beijing. The finished product has distinct colors of red, white and yellow. Because the final production process requires wrapping it with soybean flour, it is named "Lu Da Gun'r" because it looks like the yellow earth kicked up by wild donkeys rolling around in the countryside.

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