Send the poor god at the beginning of the lunar new year.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, "break five festivals" and on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, "send the poor". The sixth day of the Lunar New Year is a day for people to "send the poor", also known as Horse Day. Legend has it that when Nu Wa created everything, she first created six animals instead of people. The first day is chicken day, the second day is dog day, the third day is pig day, the fourth day is sheep day, the fifth day is cow day, the sixth day is horse day, and the seventh day is human day.

In traditional customs, horse day is also a day when people say "send the poor". There are thousands of households, all of which are not bad. The custom of sending the poor has a long history and was very popular in the Tang Dynasty. Yao He, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote "Three Poems to Send Poverty Day", the first of which said: On this day every year, we drink alcohol to worship the streets. Thousands of families are watching, and no one does not send the poor.

The origin of sending the poor day

According to Song Luyuanming's Chronological Miscellanies, the day before yesterday, people collected a dung broom. When they didn't go, they built seven pancakes, abandoned the thoroughfare and gave them to the poor. It's about the son of Zhuan Xu, the poor god. He liked frugality before his death, often dressed in rags and only drank porridge.

Even if someone gave him clothes, he would put a fire in it and burn it. Later, some people said that as long as someone's house is dirty on the sixth day of the first month, they will go to his house, which means that he is going bankrupt, so people send poor gods on the sixth day of the first month every year.