Is there anything particular about married women going back to their parents' home for the New Year?

In China, during the Spring Festival, it is a traditional custom for married daughters to return to their parents' homes. On the second or third day of the first month, a married daughter should bring a prepared gift and take her husband and children home. So, do you know what are the taboos for married women to go back to their parents' homes? Let's see what the old almanac says!

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New Year's Eve is not night.

Generally speaking, a married woman should stay at her husband's house on New Year's Eve. There is a saying: "The fire on the 30th, the lantern on the 15th day of the first month." It means that the married girl can't see the fire at home. If she sees her family celebrate the New Year, she will not get rich or prosper. Married women can go home to have a family reunion dinner with their parents, but they can't stay overnight and can't attend the wedding ceremony of their parents on the first morning.

You can't go back to your mother's house on the first day of the first month.

In people's minds, the married daughter is already an outsider, so on the first day of New Year's Day, this festive day of family reunion should stay at the husband's family, otherwise it will lead to the situation that the husband's family can't reunite. At the same time, when married women go home on this day, they will also make their families poor, reduce their wages, break their wealth and so on.

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You can't go back to your mother's house on the memorial day.

During the Spring Festival, every household should offer sacrifices to stoves. In China, it has been said since ancient times that women don't sacrifice stoves. In order to prevent the ancestors of parents' families from being unhappy when they go home to offer incense, generally married women can't go home on this day, otherwise it will affect their parents' fortune for one year and their parents will become worse and worse.

You can't touch pots and spoons when you go back to your mother's house.

There is a folk saying that "touching a spoon will not kill my father-in-law, but my mother-in-law" and "holding a pillar will not kill my father-in-law and my son-in-law". People think that it may be unlucky for a married woman to touch pots and spoons when she goes back to her mother's house, so she should actively abide by these customs and not touch these taboo things.

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Daughter's taboo in her home for the New Year.

You can't sweep the floor at your mother's house, and you can't share a bed with your husband.

Not being able to stay at home for a long time will affect my brother's fortune.

You can't eat at your mother's house. Go back to your husband's house before lighting the lamp at night, or eat at the poor husband's house.

You can't sit in your mother's house, or go back to your mother's house before confinement, otherwise it will bring bad luck.

Gifts to honor parents should be in pairs, not singular.