On the fifth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, also known as the "Breaking Five Festivals", the fifth day of the Lunar New Year carries a profound cultural meaning from ancient times to the present, and is regarded as an important moment to dispel bad luck and welcome the rolling of wealth.
In order to bathe in the baptism of wealth and fortune in the new year, you may wish to practice these 5 traditional customs with devotion.
With these actions, you will also be expected to usher in a new year full of good luck and wealth.
Sweep the house and remove the dust
The family is pure, the heart is pure, and the air is poor
From the 30th day of the lunar month of the old year to the 5th day of the first month of the new year, large-scale cleaning activities are strictly prohibited in many places. It is believed that in this critical period of the transition between the old and the new, and the accumulation of good fortune, good fortune may be swept away by arbitrary cleaning.
If it is necessary to clean up, leave the garbage in the corner of the house for the time being, and do not throw it out of the door. Until the fifth day of the first lunar month, this day is honored as "Breaking Five", which means that the New Year has been successfully passed. At this time, every household began to comprehensively clean up the front and back of the house, indoor and outdoor environments.
This is not only to improve the quality of the living environment, but also to dispel the distress in us. As contained in "Caigen Tan": "The poor family sweeps the floor, and the poor girl combs her hair." Although the scenery is not prosperous, it has its own elegance in it. "In life, what we pursue is a spiritual outlook and temperament.
Even if there is no opulent decoration, as long as the home is clean and clean, it can create a fresh and elegant atmosphere; Even if you don't have gorgeous clothes, as long as your hair is neatly combed, you can still show an elegant and refined temperament.
On the contrary, once this spiritual outlook is lost, living in a messy environment, people will also look sloppy and decadent. Even though his house was splendid and his clothes were rich, it was difficult to hide his sluggish mental state and lingering embarrassment.
As the saying goes, "The state of a person's residence is a true portrayal of the state of his life." "When the room is chaotic, the air of distress lingers; If the living room is bright and tidy, you can expect to prosper financially.
Therefore, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, it is necessary to sweep away the dust and cut off the poor qi in order to welcome the quiet arrival of wealth.
Set off firecrackers to increase courage
Energetic and poor
In Han Yu's "Sending the Poor Text", a philosophical work, he profoundly expounded the five invisible but influential images of poor ghosts: "poor in wisdom, poor in learning, poor in literature, poor in life, and poor in friendship". They are like a haze hanging over people's fate, not only bringing material deprivation and hardship, but also causing people to fall into depression and frustration on the spiritual level.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the folk custom uses the deafening sound of firecrackers as a symbolic ritual to dispel the "five povertys", so as to cut the shackles of poverty in the old year and pave a new world full of hope and wealth for the new year. At this moment, the firecrackers that resounded in the sky not only drove away the legendary "five poor", but also challenged the "poor people" that may breed in our hearts.
Through this enthusiastic sound of firecrackers, we beat the drums of war for ourselves, inspire ourselves to bravely break free from the hesitation and shackles of the old years, and awaken the courage and determination that lie dormant in our hearts. As the ancient adage "Zengguang Xianwen" said: "People are not old, people are not poor", the aging of the mentality and the depression of the will are the most vigilant enemies in life, because the aging of the soul will lead to the withering of vitality, and the loss of ambition will make people fall into eternal poverty.
The great Confucian king Yangming of the Ming Dynasty also said: "If you don't have a will, there is nothing you can do in the world." "A person's ambitions often determine the heights of his achievement. A person who has no firm ambition is like a ship that has lost its course, and will eventually have no place to return and achieve nothing in the ocean of life.
However, those who remain committed even in the face of adversity are like holding a passport to the future, and no matter how difficult and dangerous they face, they will always usher in a bright day at the end of the darkness.
Therefore, on this fifth day of the Lunar New Year, let us also use the shocking cannon sound to break the fear and limitations in our hearts, move forward bravely, open a new chapter of life, and write our own glorious legend.
Eat dumplings and pinch your mouth
Learn to keep your mouth shut and be poor
In the classic book "Fengtian Tongzhi", the folk customs of the fifth day of the first month are described in detail: "This day is called 'breaking five' by the people, and every household eats noodle dumplings, which means 'pinching and breaking the distress'. ”
After the sound of firecrackers to dispel the five poor, people use a full meal to symbolize "filling the pit of poverty", which means to enrich themselves on this special day, indicating that the coming year will be free from poverty and hunger.
The food customs of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year are mainly manifested in the enjoyment of dumplings, and the process of making dumplings is called "pinching the villain's mouth", and the fable is "pinching the villain's mouth on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year will save you from criticism from others in the coming year".
In addition, the act of making dumplings is also philosophical, warning people to learn to be silent and complain less. As "Xunzi" says:
Those who know themselves do not complain about others, and those who know their fate do not complain about heaven;
Those who often complain are easy to fall into poverty, and those who often complain about the sky are difficult to have great ambitions. ”
People who complain are often easily entangled in poverty and have a difficult life; Those who habitually blame the destiny of heaven will find it difficult to establish lofty ambitions and lead their lives into a desperate situation. Therefore, in the process of kneading the dumpling wrappers by hand, people are also alerting themselves: do not complain, lest you incur difficulties due to careless words.
Someone has profoundly pointed out:
What seems innocuous to complain is actually a kind of self-deception. ”
It has made us accustomed to shifting the blame to the outside world, which not only does not help to improve the situation, but may exacerbate the problem. Only by learning to be silent at the right time, stop complaining meaninglessly, have the courage to face our own shortcomings, and dig deep into the root cause of the problem, can we change the reality and break through the predicament through practical actions.
Therefore, on this special day of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, let us also make dumplings like "villain's mouth" together, borrow the wisdom of the ancients, break the invisible poverty brought by language, adjust the course of life, and achieve real transformation.
Eat and stir up the past
Stride forward and break your heart
The connotation of "Po Wu" food customs is rich and diverse, not only limited to the custom of making dumplings, but also has its own unique food traditions in each region. Take the fifth day of the first lunar month in some parts of the northwest as an example, on this day, people are keen to enjoy a special delicacy called "churning dumplings".
"Tuming" is a batter with a unique texture and sticky texture made by using buckwheat flour, corn flour or potato flour as the basic raw materials and carefully boiling it with boiling water.
In folk wisdom, eating the dough on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year means sticking to all the unsatisfactory things in the past year, and as the dough is gradually digested in the stomach, all kinds of unhappiness accumulated in the old years will also be dissolved.
Someone once poetically compared: "The human heart is like a container, if you cling to the past and refuse to let go, you will have no room to accept the beauty of the future, and eventually lead to a barren state of mind like a desert." There is also an old saying: "People are poor and cold, and their hearts are poor and bitter." "Material deprivation can be compensated for by hard work, but spiritual deprivation is not easy**.
Therefore, tasting the dough on the fifth day of the first lunar month is not only to say goodbye to the troubles and unsatisfactory in the past, but also to make a new space for the soul. In this way, in the new year, we can travel lightly and welcome the arrival of good fortune and wealth.
If you've carried a lot of weight in the past, consider today a ritual of inner cleansing. Knead the negative emotions accumulated in your heart such as anxiety, worry, stubbornness, and anxiety into the dough one by one, and then swallow them in your stomach, as if breaking the poverty of your heart, striding forward with the most relaxed attitude, and welcoming the bright future that belongs to you.
Welcome the God of Wealth to work hard early
Hard work to get rich and break life and poverty
Qing Jialu records:
On the fifth day of the first month, it is the Christmas birthday of the god of the head of the road, it is the morning light that breaks slightly, the golden gong shakes the sky, the sound of firecrackers, all kinds of sacrifices are present, in order to pray for blessings and profits, so it is necessary to get up early to welcome, which is the folk called the "road head" ceremony. ”
The word "Lutou God" has a profound meaning, and actually refers to the five gods of wealth who are in charge of the financial resources of the five directions in the east, west, north, south and middle. Legend has it that on the fifth day of the auspicious first month, it is the birthday of the god of wealth. People firmly believe that on this special day, if they can worship sincerely and warmly welcome, they can cleanse away the bad luck of the old year and pave the way for the new year to reach the wealth in five ways.
In addition, the custom of "grabbing the road" contains profound philosophy and life wisdom: "hard work can get rich, hard work can win". There are clouds in ancient poems:
Beware of welcoming the gods elsewhere early, and rushing to grab the road overnight. ”
Wealth does not come out of nowhere, if you want to prosper in the New Year, you must seize the opportunity, get up early to struggle, and meet the gift of the God of Wealth with the spirit of "grabbing". Among them, the word "grab" is like the finishing touch, implying that only through unremitting efforts and hard work can we truly win the rolling financial resources.
The Constant Words of the Awakening World further warns us that
Wealth does not have a fixed root, it depends on hard work. ”
Life encounters, three points by the sky, seven points by hard work. Even if you can't get ahead of others at the beginning, with your own hard work, you can also turn the tables in adversity and rewrite the chapter of fate.
On the occasion of the fifth day of the first lunar month, perhaps we should also participate in this grand event of "grabbing the road", and experience the joy and achievement brought by hard work in the warm atmosphere of you chasing me. At the same time, we should always be vigilant to ourselves: to break the fate of hardship, the only way to rely on unremitting diligence and struggle!
On the special day of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people solemnly carry out the ritual of sending off the poor god and welcoming the god of wealth, not hoping for a windfall, but symbolically breaking the outdated self-framework and breaking through the existing limitations of life, so as to self-alert and self-motivated.
This move is intended to encourage us to move firmly towards a brighter and brighter future with a new look and attitude, with a bold determination.
Here, we sincerely invite you to light up your attention and pray that each other can successfully realize the transformation of "Breaking Five", break free from the shackles of time, and then reshape and create an ideal new self!