What does it mean to break the fifth day of the first month?

What does it mean to break the fifth day of the first month? Why is it called breaking the fifth day?

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it is commonly known as "Breaking Five". The word "broken" means "broken without breaking", and "broken" means breaking all taboos from grade one to grade five. According to folklore experts, "Breaking Five" means to send the New Year. After this day, everything will slowly return to the state before New Year's Eve.

According to folklore experts, the origin of "Breaking Five" is still divided. According to the list of gods, Jiang Ziya deified his wife who betrayed him as a "poor god" and made her "ruined". In myths and legends, Jiang Ziya's wife is a very annoying cheating wife, and it is even more annoying to be labeled as a poor god. So people "broke" her on the fifth day of the first month and told her to go back at once.

Another saying about "Breaking Five" is that in the old society, there were many superstitions and taboos among the people from the first day to the fifth day, such as not cooking with raw rice, and women not sewing, cleaning and breaking things. After the fifth day, these taboos were lifted, so this day is called "breaking five".

Folklore experts say that cleaning is generally not allowed from the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifth day of the first lunar month, and garbage can only be put in the corner of the house first. Especially during the Chinese New Year, you can't move the broom, or you will lose your good luck. But on the day of "Breaking Five", it is necessary to carry out a thorough cleaning. When the garbage was swept out of the house, firecrackers were also placed outside the house.

On the fifth day of Lunar New Year's Eve, eating jiaozi, commonly known as "pinching people's mouths", is a popular dietary custom all over China. Because when you wrap jiaozi, you have to pinch it by hand along the edge of jiaozi. It is said that this can avoid rumors around.