Dust removal is year-end cleaning. In folk customs, "off-year" is a day for every household to "dust off". Dust removal is year-end cleaning. Every household should clean all kinds of electrical appliances, clean the courtyard, clean the room, and greet the new year neatly and brightly.
Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", according to folk sayings, sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new". Its original intention is to sweep away all the bad luck, bad luck and poverty of last year, and it also places people's desire to break through the old and establish the new and pray to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Sweeping the dust is not only to clean the room and keep it clean and tidy, but the meaning of "sweeping the dust" is to sweep away the dirt in our hearts.
Pay attention to cleaning the dust
As for sweeping dust, the ancients said that "seven sweeps gold and eight sweeps silver". The ancients: "seven" and "eight" are not modern seven or eight. It says here that it is best to clean the house on the 24th.
Ancient people used the time recording method of the twelve earthly branches. The twelve earthly branches are Zichou Yin Mao, Tatsumi at noon and Shen You at noon. "Seven" means 1 1 till 1 in the morning, and "eight" means 1 till 3 o'clock in the afternoon. This time period is the hottest time of the day. At noon, the sun is in the sky. At this time, the ancients thought that wealth would increase. Of course, we know this is unreliable, but noon is really a good time to clean the house.