What are the taboos in Minnan Spring Festival?

In the traditional festivals in China, the Spring Festival occupies a very important position. When people celebrate this grand festival, there will be many taboos and Chinese New Year customs, and the festival traditions in each region have their own characteristics. Next, let's follow the old calendar to see the taboos and customs of the Spring Festival in southern Fujian!

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Taboos in Minnan Spring Festival

On the first day of the first month, do not sweep the floor, do not take out the garbage, and avoid sweeping the wealth out of the house. People who have wells don't carry water, or money (wells, Minnan dialect) will be lost. Don't cry, don't quarrel with others, don't beat and scold children.

In the third grade, I sacrificed to the dead at home, so I can't visit at home. At the same time, you should avoid quarreling or arguing with others, otherwise the good luck of the year will be destroyed. On the fourth day of the fourth day, the kitchen god entered the house and should not go out of town. It is not suitable to polish stone tools on the tenth day. The lights on the fifteenth day of the first month can't be left until next year.

Don't owe money or collect debts during the Chinese New Year. Minnan people pay attention to good luck in the New Year, and generally borrow money or debt before the New Year. If they do this after the New Year, they may have bad luck in the following year.

Don't step on the threshold when you are a guest at home, lest you step on bad luck. Don't drink soup at the first bite of your meal, or you will be caught in the rain for a year.

Don't break dishes and other utensils during the Chinese New Year, or your good luck will be destroyed in one year. If you accidentally break them, you should throw the pieces into the well at once.

Don't turn off the lights on New Year's Eve, the first day, the fifth day and the Lantern Festival, so that the auspicious light can stay forever.

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Minnan New Year custom

Year-end cleaning

In order to welcome the New Year, we should clean all kinds of farm tools and articles, and use dusters made of straw and tender bamboo branches and leaves to clean up the dust cobwebs on the corner beams, so that we can spend the New Year in a refreshing way. This day is also called Dust Day.

Steamed bowl cake

"Bowl cake" is also called "sesame cake". In southern Fujian, such as Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Shishi and other coastal areas, in order to have a good Spring Festival, "bowl cakes" will be steamed after dust removal, which means making a fortune in the coming year.

Ryan

On New Year's Eve, every family sits around to have a reunion dinner. A bowl of white rice is placed in the hall with a red spring flower on it, which means there is enough food for the New Year every year. Then, at the end of the year, firecrackers are set off to "respect God", pray for heaven, and open doors to welcome the spring and good luck, which is usually called "Ryan".

Hezheng

Wear new clothes on the morning of New Year's Day to pay New Year greetings to parents and elders. Eating in the morning pays attention to eating eggs to get rid of mildew, and eating noodles to protect longevity. For guests, eating candy, candied fruit or drinking sweet tea and coffee is a sweet start.

The ninth day of the "heavenly descent"

Starting from the eighth day, five kinds of sacrifices, five kinds of fruits and golden paper candles will be prepared for sacrifice, pigs and sheep will be slaughtered, and "life in heaven" will be celebrated at midnight 12 12, "lights in heaven" will be lit, "seats in heaven" will be placed on the table, incense and firecrackers will be set off, and the prepared rich offerings will be used to worship God.

Fifteenth anniversary lantern festival

This is a lively festival, and eating glutinous rice balls, lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns is an essential item. From the 14th to 16th of the first month, there are often street activities in Xiamen, such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, walking on stilts and car drumming. Quanzhou also has a distinctive "Lantern Festival", which is really lively.

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The second day of "son-in-law's day"

The married daughter took her husband and children back to her parents' home to visit relatives. Daughter-in-law who has no parents or relatives in her parents' house should stay at her husband's house to help. This is the so-called "father in the world, mother in the world, junior high school in the world, no father, no mother to bear the burden."

The fourth day of the fourth lunar month.

Send the twelfth lunar month to heaven, welcome the God of the Jade Emperor to the palace, and pray for the God and Buddha to bless the whole family and all the best in the new year.

"The fifth day will be over, and the sixth day will gain weight."

You can start working in these two days, the shops will reopen, and farmers will go to the fields to prepare for spring ploughing.

The seventh day of "everyone is born"

Legend has it that this is the day when Nu Wa gives birth to a baby. Generally, she wants to eat eggs for her birthday noodles.