Why do you have to clean the toilet on the sixth day of the first month?

The reason why the sacrificial toilet should be cleaned on the sixth day of the first month is because the sixth day of the first month is the day when Ce Shen Zi Gu inspected the toilet.

In the folk custom of Chinese New Year in China, you can't clean and throw garbage from New Year's Eve to the fifth day. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the family began to clean up and throw out the garbage. Because the sixth day is Ce Shen Zigu's toilet inspection day, every household has to clean the toilet. However, today's families pay attention to hygiene and use sweeping robots to sweep the floor. Besides, toilets are all new toilets, so it is impossible to clean them. Therefore, the custom of cleaning the sacrificial toilets has basically disappeared.

It is said that Ce Shen's son-in-law will check the toilet on the sixth day of Lunar New Year's Eve. About Zi Gu's life story, it is said that a concubine of a family died of jealousy and anger, and was later honored as Ce Shen.

Because it is already beginning of spring on Lunar New Year's Eve, people are going to farm, so everyone will also clean the toilet and offer sacrifices to Ce Shen on this day. From New Year's Eve to the fifth day, you can't clean the toilet, so there is also a lot of feces in the toilet, so you can clean it on the sixth day.

Ce Shen Zigu:

Ce Shen's "Zigu" is the god of toilets in Han folklore. Also called Zigu, Toilet Valley, Maogu, Pit Valley and Pit III. In Ce Shen, people mainly worship "Zigu" and "Empress San Xiao". Zi Gu's main duty is not to look after the toilet, but to predict the good and bad luck in the world and have fun with others.

Some scholars believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival in many areas evolved from the custom of eating zongzi. There is a saying in Cantonese Xiehouyu that "three aunts in a shit pit-asking questions is hard to send", which comes from this custom.