You can sweep the floor and clean the house in the first few days.

From the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the New Year's Eve in 2008, China people call this period "Spring Festival" or "Dust Day". Dust removal is year-end cleaning, which is called "house cleaning" in the north and "dust removal" in the south.

Cleaning the dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of China people. On the day of dusting, the whole family began to clean the house and yard together, scrub the pots and pans, dismantle and wash the bedding, and greet the New Year cleanly.

The custom of "sweeping the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" has a long history. According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all "unlucky" and "unlucky". This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

However, not everyone can sweep the dust during the Spring Festival. In some places, you can't sweep the floor on the first day of the first month. As the saying goes, the first day of the first month is the birthday of a broom, so you can't use a broom on this day, otherwise it will sweep your luck, ruin your money, and attract a "broom star", which will lead to bad luck. In some places, you can't sweep the dust from the first day to the third day of the first month, but you can only clean it on New Year's Eve. You can't take a broom or take out the garbage from the first day to the third day of the first month. Only one vat can be prepared, and all the wastewater from those days can be poured into the vat.