The familiar Chinese New Year's Eve after the 70s
Chinese New Year's Eve is a thorough cleaning, the house, the yard, must be cleaned thoroughly.
The house should be swept before spring.
Cover some of the furniture first to avoid dust. Mom wrapped a towel around her head, tied a broom to the bamboo pole, and began to sweep along the four corners of the house, from high to low, all of which were molded and pulled.
The earthen house, the beam purlin, the sorghum barberry, the mold pull, all kinds of silk wire mesh, fluffy hair, soil particles all fall, and there will even be dead leaves and hairs on the sorghum barberry, sparrow feathers and grass feathers coming down from the sparrow nest, which permeates the whole house and can't stay in people.
I don't know what the custom is, after sweeping the house, my mother always has to burn a little fire and smoke it, is it not to smoke the bad luck in the house?
In some places, you have to use white paper to paste again, so the room is really clean and bright.
Clean the yard, dig a dry toilet first, dig a manure pit, and dump all this garbage into the big manure pit outside the house.
It's very challenging, I couldn't do it when I was a kid, but I did it once or twice when I was older.
Re-stack the firewood in the yard. Turn over the old firewood pile, clean up the broken firewood, and transport the accumulated manure to the manure pit outside, which is the fertilizer after the beginning of spring.
After cleaning these up, it's sweeping the floor.
The garbage that was swept away was not plastic at that time, and all the garbage that was swept was fertilizer, which was pulled together to the manure pit outside the yard.
The yard was originally large, but after it was cleaned, it became even bigger.