2. SWEEP DIRT AWAY FROM THE FRONT DOOR // CHINA
中國：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.
中國人認為好運是從你家前門進來的。在新年之前，他們會徹底打掃衛生，告別過去的一年。為了避免把好運掃走，他們從外往內掃，把塵土掃成一堆再從后門清理出去，絕不走前門。而且，在新年的頭兩天不能打掃衛生，因為好運會被趕走。