What do you mean the bottom of the pot is burnt?

"Lifting the bottom of the pot" is a traditional custom in some places in Henan. When you move into a new home, friends and relatives will get together to congratulate you on that day, and the host family will treat you to a meal. From now on, life will be sweeter.

It is said that this is to bring happiness and wealth from the old house to the new house by setting a date, "burning the bottom of the pot" and "branding the pot helmet" Connect it with the new happiness and wealth of the new house. In the future, this family will live happily from generation to generation.

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Before Zhou Pingwang moved the capital to the new capital, the courtiers of Chaoqing proposed that the new capital was unlucky and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty had a long history. In this way, Zhou Pingwang thought of Guo Zhong and entrusted him to preside over the ceremony.

As you should know, Guo and Guo have the same pronunciation, both of which are surnames, derived from Ji's surname. Uncle Guo, his brother and uncle, was sealed in Guo (at the foot of Mangshan Mountain in the northwest of Zhengzhou City), and later generations took Guo as their surname.

King Ping authorized Guo Zhong to handle the relocation of the new capital, and did not dare to neglect it. He held sacrificial ceremonies in the hall and bedroom of Luoyang, the new capital. During the ceremony, you are respectfully invited to be respected, to have children, to be both civil and military, to be a bachelor of agriculture, industry and commerce, to be exempted from punishment, to be widowed, and to set up a sacrificial platform (housewarming platform).

Before the move, there was a man who was "respected, had children, was both civil and military, learned all about his family, agriculture, industry and commerce, had no punishment, and was widowed". The first courtiers congratulated him on "the joy of moving to the new capital". This is the origin of "burning the bottom of the pot".