What does Liaobi Festival mean?

Liaobi Festival means: expulsion; The custom of "Liaobi Festival" means expulsion, but it only expels unlucky people and athel Loren, and good things can't get out.

After beginning of spring, the strength of wood became stronger and stronger in winter, while the strength of wood led to the weakness of soil, and the wood belonged to the liver and the soil belonged to the spleen and stomach. Therefore, spring was the time when the spleen and stomach were weak, and the word "malnutrition" was the various results caused by the weakness of the spleen and stomach. The Guide to Pediatric Medical Syndrome says that malnutrition is a disease of the spleen and stomach, and it is also caused by the death of body fluid.

Because people's living conditions were poor in the past, every winter, all kinds of bugs would look for warm places and often get into people's clothes. In winter, there are always some lice in the trouser legs, but now this kind of thing has long disappeared. Of course, this is only external, even the child's stomach will grow worms, commonly known as "roundworms", which will lead to sallow skin, five malnutrition and so on.

Then "Nose-burning Festival" means "Nose-burning" with fire, which is a custom to drive away pests and diseases. On the 23rd day of the first month, after dinner, people will light a bonfire at home, and then adults and children will cross the fire together, which means to burn off all kinds of bad luck with fire.

Tiao Bi, also called Tiao Gong Man, is the custom of Spring Festival in Northwest China, an end of Spring Festival in Northwest China and the closing time of social fire. Popular in Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Shandong, the time is the 23rd day of the first lunar month.

On the day before the festival, people cut out many paper figures from yellow paper and white paper and hung them behind the door. On the morning of 23rd, they had to "open their eyes", and then put them next to the rice noodle pot or water tank, so that they could eat and drink enough. At night, they put them in the fire and began to "jump dry".