Don't break bowls, mirrors and other glass ceramics on New Year's Day, so as not to break the fortune. If there is, the remedy is to wrap it in red paper, put it on the altar first, say "peace through the years" and then throw it away after five days.
Avoid bathing, washing your hair and washing clothes on the morning of New Year's Day, so as not to wash away your fortune.
Don't call others' names to wake people up on New Year's Day, which will make them be urged to do things all year round.
In ancient times, the poor couldn't afford porridge on the morning of New Year's Day, so they avoided eating meat and taking medicine. Eating porridge on New Year's Day will make you poor for a whole year. In addition, it is not suitable for eating meat on New Year's Day. Therefore, there is a proverb in Taiwan Province, "Eat vegetables in the morning of the first day, win a year of fasting", and try not to take medicine on the first day. Unless you are seriously ill, healthy people are not suitable for this kind of life.
We should not cook new rice on the first day of the new year, but eat the leftover New Year's Eve dinner. It means that last year's food can't be eaten, and there is still some left this year.
Don't take a nap on New Year's Day. According to the old adage "No sleep during the day", people are advised not to be lazy. Taking a nap on New Year's Day will affect their career.
Avoid washing clothes on the first and second days of the New Year's Day. According to legend, two days is the birthday of the water god, so do not wash clothes.
You can't use a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and break your money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Until today, many places have the custom of cleaning before New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, don't put brooms, don't take out garbage, prepare a big bucket of waste water, and don't spill it outside that day. You can't smash furniture during the New Year. Breaking it is a sign of bankruptcy. You have to say "Peace through the years" or "Flowers bloom on the ground, wealth and splendor" as soon as possible.
On the second day of New Year's Day, the married daughter goes back to her parents' house and asks her husband to go with her, so it is commonly known as "husband-welcoming day". On this day, the daughter who goes back to her parents' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her parents' house, but she must get back to her husband's house before dinner. In the past, the family would choose this day to take a family photo. On the second day of New Year's Day, when the daughter returns to her parents' home, it is forbidden to refund the gift money as a single one. Because the singular number is traditionally considered unlucky, the gifts that the son-in-law brings back to her family must be in pairs.
New Year's Day, also known as Red Dog Day, is homophonic with "red mouth" and usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings. It is said that it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been out of date, because few people get together in the Spring Festival now, and it has faded a lot. On the third day of the lunar new year, rats should avoid lights when they get married. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Red Dog Day does not pay New Year greetings. The red dog is the god of anger and should not go out to pay New Year greetings. .
In the past, the boss wanted to "fire" a person. On this day, he came to worship God uninvited. The other party knew it well and packed up and left. There is also a legend that Kitchen God will come to check the household registration this day, so it is not advisable to travel far. Don't go far. This day is a folk custom to welcome the gods, and welcome the kitchen god and the family god to come back to protect their families. Kitchen God should call the roll and should not go out.
On the fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "breaking the fifth", it is necessary to "drive out the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, academic poverty, literary poverty, life poverty and friendship poverty". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set from the inside out, and as soon as they are set, they go outside the door. It is said that anything unlucky will be blown out. On this day, the popular folk food custom is to eat jiaozi, commonly known as "squeezing people's mouths". On the fifth day of Tianjin, every household eats jiaozi, and the chopping board should jingle so that the neighbors can hear it, to show that they are chopping villains. We must clean up the garbage we make during the Chinese New Year. This is called "sending the poor", otherwise it will bring poverty.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially opened their doors and set off firecrackers, no less than on New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular boy on this day is the boy who is over 12. Because 12 is twice as much as 6, it is called 666 Dashun. On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated in the festival, which is called sending it to the poor.
The seventh day is people's day, which is people's birthday. According to the "gauntlet", from the first day, the order of God's creation was "one chicken, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people and eight valleys", so the seventh day was a human day. On this day, Hong Kong people like to eat their first bite of porridge, so-called harmony, I hope it is the top few high schools in science exams. Everyone should be respected every day. Even the government cannot execute criminals on this day, and parents cannot teach their children a lesson on this day. On the seventh day of the lunar new year, it is the evil day of the seventh day, and everything is inappropriate, especially when you are away from home.
The eighth day of the eighth lunar month is Xiaomi's birthday, also called Shunxing Festival. It is said that the stars are in the lower bound and the stars in the sky are the most complete. If the weather is fine this day, it indicates a bumper rice harvest this year and the sky is overcast.
On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the folk custom is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and a grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven will be held. Many believers in hsinchu city, Taiwan Province Province will go to the Temple of Heaven, which has been dedicated to the Jade Emperor for more than 200 years, to celebrate his birthday and pray for a good weather, peace and health in the new year. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the birthday in the sky and the Christmas of the Jade Emperor. Avoid drying clothes and being choosy.
The tenth day is Stone's birthday. On this day, no stone tools such as grinding and grinding can be moved, and even stones must be sacrificed. In Yuncheng, Shandong and other places, there is a saying that God lifts stones. At the beginning of Kuya, people frozen a crock on a smooth stone. On the morning of the tenth day, the nose of the crock was tied with a rope and carried by ten boys in turn. The stone didn't fall to the ground, which indicated a bumper harvest that year.
The eleventh day of the first month is the "son-in-law's day", which is the day when the father-in-law fetes his son-in-law. On the ninth day, there was a lot of leftover food to celebrate "God's Birthday", except for one day on the tenth day, so the bride's family didn't have to spend any more money, so they used the leftover food to entertain their son-in-law and daughter. The folk song is called "Ask her son-in-law".
After the eleventh day of the first month, people began to prepare for the Lantern Festival. From the twelfth day of the first month, they began to buy lanterns and set up light sheds. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "Eleven chirps, twelve light sheds, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen lights are on, fifteen lines and a half months, and sixteen people put out the lights." The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, the first full moon night in a year, and the night when spring returns to the earth, also known as Shangyuan Festival. The custom of burning lanterns on Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. It is essential to eat Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls on this day. The first month of 16th night is Children's Day. All the children took out their lanterns and collided with others, and then smiled and watched others' lanterns catch fire. This is called "touching the lamp". What is important is that this year's lanterns can't be left until next year, and they must be destroyed by "touching the lanterns". ?