The rules can be a lot, each local rules and precautions are different, combined with our local, as well as some of the rules of my own family, said our side of the taboos and precautions.
Our side of the New Year is bound to eat fish and pig's claw, the metaphor of the "year," and pig's claw metaphor of the "coming year to the family scratch money," in addition to these, if a large family to sit down to eat together, the child is not allowed to the table, will be If the table is big enough, the children will sit at the end of the table, with their backs to the door of the house. And in the first month, sweeping the floor and cleaning up the garbage, it is taboo to sweep from the inner room to the outer room, but to sweep from the outer doorway to the inner room, and it is not allowed to take out the garbage in the first month.
Then our own family customs about the New Year is also more, stick couplets, firecrackers this is the basic customs, but our year is not quite the same as other people, our family year is three days, respectively, the New Year's Eve, the first day of the first two three days, on the New Year's Eve the first pot of dumplings cooked out of the first pot we don't eat, but to be dedicated to the old ancestors, and then the first to the old ancestors of the food ready, and then only begin to We have to prepare the food for our own family, and before each meal, we have to offer incense to the Old Ancestors first, and then eat. On the evening of the second day of the year, the final stage of the end of the year, the family would gather in front of the offering table and kowtow to the Old Ancestor before the year was over.
Then there are some details in the first month, such as not shaving the head, shaving the head in the first month of the death of uncle; eating dumplings and picking the garlic skin, garlic skin can be thrown away, but can not be burned, for fear of too much chicken and garlic in the family in the coming year. In addition to these customs, our side of the New Year's Eve also have a saying, to the elders kowtow, to relatives gifts, etc., there are certain rules, but these rules now no one cares about, have been outlawed. In general, the New Year's Eve in their own homes, the first day to go to relatives and friends to pay tribute to the New Year, the second, the third back to the door or to visit relatives, after the fourth is to party with friends, after the first six is basically back to normal.