According to Lu Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. Especially when removing dust, you should tie a broom with straw and a wooden stick longer than human height to clean up the dust and cobwebs on the beams and corners of the house.

Then keep those straws, and after dinner, light the fire pier for the men.

One legend is that ...

Legend has it that everyone is attached to a three-corpse god. He often reports to the Jade Emperor and speaks ill of the world. In a very short time, the Jade Emperor received 99999 tips from him, saying that the world was going to rebel against heaven. The jade emperor was furious when he saw it. He immediately summoned three resin gods and ordered him to write down the crimes of people who spoke ill of the jade emperor on the wall, and then let the spider make a big net and hang it under the eaves. The Jade Emperor also ordered Wang Lingguan to go to the lower bound on New Year's Eve, and all families marked by the Three Corpses God would be beheaded.

Seeing that the plot was about to succeed, they could monopolize the beautiful world. The three resin gods quickly descended to earth and marked the walls of each house. The kitchen god discovered the conspiracy of three corpse gods, and quickly found the kitchen gods of each family to discuss countermeasures: from the day the kitchen delivered it, every family should clean it up before New Year's Eve. When Wang Lingguan visited the lower bound on New Year's Eve, he found that every household was clean, the people behaved well and worked hard. The Jade Emperor was furious when he learned from Wang Lingguan and Kitchen God that the Three Corpses God had wronged a good man, so he put the Three Corpses God in prison forever.

Since then, the kind kitchen god has been embraced by everyone. Every year, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen is sacrificed, and sweeping dust has become a folk habit. People clean their houses because the Spring Festival is coming in the house where they have lived for a year, so they need to clean their houses to prepare for a clean Spring Festival.