On the sixth day of the first month, send the poor god
Xue Hongxin. 
The poor god is the son of Zhuan, he is thin and short, and he likes to wear tattered clothes and drink porridge. Even if it is a new dress made by his mother, he has to cut it to wear it, so everyone calls him "poor son", and when he died, it was the sixth day of the first month, so his family said when he saw him off: "Poor man, you go, let's go!" "After hundreds of years, he became the poor ghost of folklore.
On the day of sending the poor, all the garbage before the fifth day of the first lunar month should be put into a bag and thrown out.
The sixth day of the first lunar month is also known as the "Horse Day". Since the Qin and Han dynasties, according to the order of Nuwa Niangniang's creation of animals and people, it is customary to call the first day of the first month as the day of the chicken, the second day of the first month as the day of the dog, the third day of the first month as the day of the pig, the fourth day of the first month as the day of the sheep, the fifth day of the first month as the day of the ox, the sixth day of the first month as the day of the horse, and the seventh day of the first month as the day of the people. Legend has it that this is because when Nuwa created all living beings, she created the six animals first, and then the people, so the first to the sixth day of the first month are the days of the six animals.
On the sixth day of the first month, people began to prepare for spring ploughing, and they were sent out of the house. So, who is the poor god?
According to Song Chen Yuanliang's "Guangji of the Year", quoted in "Wenzong Beiwen", it is recorded: "When he was in Gaoxin, he gave birth to a son in the palace, and he was not dressed properly, and he was known as a poor son in the palace. Afterwards, he died in the first month of the year, and was buried in the palace'Send the poor today. '"
On the dark day of the first lunar month, the poor man died, and the palace people buried him and said, "Send the poor son today." From then on, the poor man became a poor ghost that everyone feared.
The custom of sending the poor was quite popular in the Tang Dynasty, and Han Yu once wrote a "Sending the Poor Text", which said:"(The master) told the poor ghost three times:'I have the grace to send it, and the son is interested in doing it'？"Tang poet Yao He also wrote the poem "Three Songs of Sending the Poor on an Obscure Day", the first of which is cloud: Every year to this day, the wine is worshiped in the street. Thousands of households and thousands of doors are seen, and no one is not sent to the poor. From the last two sentences, we can see that the custom of sending the poor was quite common at that time. After the Song Dynasty, the custom of sending the poor was still popular. Qing Yu Quyuan's "Three Bills in the Tea Fragrance Room, Sending the Poor Ghosts" recorded the words of the former dynasty: I advise Langjun and the little lady to send the poor ghosts empty.
The poor god that Pu Songling hated the most was Jiang Ziya's wife. Jiang Ziya was very poor when he was young, and he married 68-year-old Ma at the age of 72. Not long after getting married, Ma divorced him again because he disliked Jiang Ziya's poverty.
Jiang Ziya didn't think about Ma at all when he was later named a god, and Ma also came to ask for the title because he had the name of a husband and wife for a day, and Jiang Ziya casually called Ma a "poor god", which made people stunned to see her.
The poor god has the benefits of the poor god, and the folk believe that the poor god is the protector of the poor, and the poor god only keeps the peace, not the wealth. As long as the poor god is at home, there is only peace in the house, and there is no richness in the house.
The practice of the ancients to send the poor is recorded in detail in the "Guangji of the Year". It was the 29th day of the first lunar month, and the house had to be cleaned inside and out, and then the garbage was thrown into the water.
Many places in northern Henan are sent to the poor gods on the sixth day of the first month.
Now when we send the poor gods, what should we give? To sum it up, there are five points. First, we must send away the healthy "poor". As the saying goes: the body is the capital of the revolution. Only by living in good health and peace can our days be more and more prosperous; Good health, family harmony, and life will become more and more warm.
The second is to send away money "poor". Money is not everything. But without money, it is difficult to move an inch.
The third is to send away the mentality of "poor". To be a man, you must not only be able to take it, but also be able to put it down.
If you can afford to take it and put it down, you will be happy and do things frankly; The sun will shine on the face, and the heart will be comfortable and smooth.
can't take it, can't put it down, is melancholy and depressed, and does things secretly sad; His face was cloudy, and his heart was full of sorrow.
Drive away the mentality of "poor", and be a person who can afford to put it down, and be content and happy.
Fourth, the luck is "poor". The quality of a person's fortune mainly depends on himself, just as the ancients said: life is self-made, and happiness is self-sought; There is no way to bring good or evil, but people bring it on themselves.
The fifth is to send away the "poor" career. How big the pattern of people is, how big the stage is. As the saying goes: hurt others once, hurt yourself for three generations. The wicked evil evil themselves, and the good do good to themselves. Therefore, we must be determined to awaken and not let our hearts be invaded by vulgarity and enjoyment. Insist on continuous learning and improvement of yourself every day, and strive to see the Buddha in flowers, get great joy, and get great consummation.
Xue Hongxin, male, middle ** member. He has published personal anthologies such as "The Dream of Xiaohe", "Mother-in-law is Dad", "Ke Jinle", and his works are scattered in "People's Literature", "Story Club", "Story World", "Folk Literature", "Ancient and Ancient Legend Story Edition", "Legendary Story", "Ancient and Modern Story Newspaper", "Contemporary Literature", "Henan**", "Xinxiang**", "Pingyuan Evening News" and other hundreds of newspaper and periodical network platforms, and now works for the Yuanyang County Urban Management Bureau, a member of the Yuanyang County Elderly Scholar Group, and the vice chairman of the Yuanyang County Writers Association.