What taboo things can't be done on New Year's Eve?

1, avoid going to bed early and keep your old age. In fact, you don't sleep on New Year's Eve and stay up late to welcome the New Year. To remain old is to remain the last day of the year. Besides, don't just play with your mobile phone or computer on New Year's Eve. Be sure to stay with your family. ?

2. There is a taboo of "no pumping" in the New Year. People who have a well at home should "seal the well" before dusk except Sunday, add a wooden cover to the well, offer cakes after burning incense, and open the cover three days later for reuse.

3, "A married woman doesn't watch her mother's lanterns on New Year's Eve", "A married daughter can't watch her mother's lanterns at night, and watching them will kill her parents", which is very powerful, but "a teacher is famous". Because the old society was ruled by men; Married daughters are often at odds with their mother-in-law. If women who have become "wives" (especially those with rich and powerful backgrounds) try their best to run to their parents' homes, their in-laws will not be able to maintain a happy reunion. In order to ensure the reunion of the mother-in-law's family, this folk custom spread with good purpose and "unwarranted" form. There is no legal provision, which is unknown, but it has played a role in cohesion and harmony.

You must go home for reunion at 0 o'clock. After eating the New Year's Eve in laughter, the family will sit around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, or go to relatives' homes to chat, but they must go home before 0 o'clock. At 0 o'clock sharp, the whole family should "keep watch" at home. When the hands of the clock pass 12 o'clock, people will set off firecrackers already prepared to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

5, the first month does not shave the old Tianjin, the barber has been working since the early 1930 s, whether it is shaving or braiding, or washing and cutting the male head, it has to work all night until the first morning of the first month. Most hairdressers at that time were Baodi people. At dawn, they packed up and went back to their hometown. When they shaved their heads again, they couldn't find their owner. This is to urge people to do all the cleaning and hygiene work before the new year.