2. SWEEP DIRT AWAY FROM THE FRONT DOOR // CHINA
中國(guó)：清掃門前的塵土

In China, it's believed that good fortune enters your life through your front door. Just before the New Year, Chinese people follow a tradition of thoroughly cleaning their homes to bid farewell to the previous year, but to avoid sweeping all that good luck out, the home is swept inward and collected in a pile to be carried out the back door, never through the front. In fact, no cleaning is performed at all during the first two days of the New Year so that no good luck can be swept away.
中國(guó)人認(rèn)為好運(yùn)是從你家前門進(jìn)來的。在新年之前，他們會(huì)徹底打掃衛(wèi)生，告別過去的一年。為了避免把好運(yùn)掃走，他們從外往內(nèi)掃，把塵土掃成一堆再?gòu)暮箝T清理出去，絕不走前門。而且，在新年的頭兩天不能打掃衛(wèi)生，因?yàn)楹眠\(yùn)會(huì)被趕走。