When should we clean the house in the twelfth lunar month of 2019? What other customs are there on this day?
By the twelfth lunar month, the year is almost over. With the new year approaching, many families have already started cleaning. When should we clean the house in the twelfth lunar month of 2019? What other customs are there on this day? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the last month of the year, commonly known as the end of the year. Follow Shuimoxiansheng.com and take a look at the contents of the lunar calendar for December 2018.When should we clean the house in the twelfth lunar month of 2019?According to the lunar calendar, the folk custom is to start dust removal on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. There is a legend about the reason for setting this day: the evil gods reported to the Emperor of Heaven that the people were doing evil and cursed him, and the Emperor of Heaven was furious, so he issued an order to quickly investigate the crimes committed by the people. For those who resented the gods and blasphemed the gods, their crimes were written under the eaves of their houses and then covered with spider webs as a mark. The Emperor of Heaven also ordered Wang Lingguan to go down to the mortal world on New Year's Eve and kill every family with the mark on their heads. The evil god took the opportunity to mark every household, which was discovered by the Kitchen God. He came up with a good idea. From the day of sending off the Kitchen God on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, to the day of receiving the Kitchen God on New Year's Eve, every household must clean their house thoroughly. If a household is not clean, the Kitchen God will refuse to enter the house. Everyone followed the instructions of the Kitchen God before he ascended to heaven and swept the dust, dusted off the cobwebs, wiped the doors and windows, and made their homes look brand new. When Wang Lingguan was ordered to go down to the mortal world on New Year's Eve, he found that every household had clean windows and a beautiful world. Therefore, the human world escaped disaster because of the Kitchen God, so every year on the 23rd day of the lunar year, after sending off the Kitchen God, every household starts to clean up the house. Today, from the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month to before New Year's Eve, some people are doing general cleaning. After all, the working hours of different positions are different, and the Spring Festival holiday times are also different. Just get it sorted before the Spring Festival.What other customs are there on this day?Door Paintings <br /> According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, when Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, was ill, he often heard ghosts crying and gods howling in his dreams, and could not sleep at night. At this time, generals Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong volunteered to stand on both sides of the palace gate in full armor. As a result, the palace was safe and sound. Li Shimin thought that the two generals had worked too hard, so he ordered painters to paint their mighty images on the palace gate, calling them "door gods." According to Cai Yong's "Duduan" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, people in the Han Dynasty had already pasted the images of "Shentu" and "Yulei" on their doors, which evolved into woodblock New Year pictures in the Song Dynasty.Pasting Spring Festival Couplets <br /> Spring Festival couplets evolved from the "peach stems" of the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago. During the Spring Festival, Meng Chang, the emperor of the Later Shu Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, had a sudden inspiration and ordered people to cut peach tree slices. He picked up a pen and wrote a couplet on them: "The New Year brings us more blessings, and the festival is called Changchun." This is the earliest Spring Festival couplet in China. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established Nanjing as the capital, he issued an edict on New Year's Eve: "Every family of officials, scholars and common people must write a pair of Spring Festival couplets to decorate the new year." Later, Spring Festival couplets were popularized and today every household posts Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year. Getting rid of the chaotic year <br /> After sending the Kitchen God to heaven on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, he is welcomed back on New Year's Eve. During this period, there is no god governing the world, and there are no taboos. People often get married, which is called "getting rid of the chaotic year." The chaotic years are specific periods designed by the people to regulate their social life. At the end of the year, people have some free time and savings. This is a good time for those who normally don't have the energy to handle big things. Therefore, people invented this special time custom based on the needs of real life. It can be seen that in traditional society, the living order of the people was regulated by folk customs. What is the best order for cleaning?The order of cleaning should be bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, and living room. Like this, clean the things inside first, then close the doors and windows to isolate the outside from cleaning again and reduce secondary pollution. Then when you clean a place separately, you need to clean the inside of the cabinets first, then the walls, tabletops, and finally the floor. If you clean from inside to outside and from top to bottom like this, you won't have to clean repeatedly. Reasons to clean in order. This can not only ensure that the room is clean and tidy after cleaning, but also avoid secondary cleaning, which can improve efficiency. When cleaning, it is best to make a list in advance and clean out the large items that are needed urgently. Because there are so many small things and they are so miscellaneous, it may take more than an afternoon to clean up a few of them. What to do with small items? We can use our free time to do cleaning to avoid tiring cleaning that results in a life of being paralyzed for the whole day after cleaning. |
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