Customs and taboos on New Year's Day.

The customs of New Year's Day are as follows:

1, mining day.

On the 11th day of the first lunar month, Fuzhou will have the custom of "picking the sun". The so-called harvest day is an auspicious day to celebrate spring and receive blessings. According to the traditional customs of Fuzhou, Fuzhou people have the habit of sending lanterns before the Lantern Festival. Grandparents usually give it to grandchildren. The time to send lanterns is usually from the eighth day of the first lunar month to the eleventh day of the first lunar month. This custom is to hope for good weather and good luck in the coming year.

2. Congratulations to "Tianding"

Every year, on the 11th day of the first lunar month, some places celebrate that there are more men in the family, and that family will also celebrate on this day. Especially in Chaoshan area, on the 10th and 11th day of the first lunar month, "rice sugar cubes" are sent from door to door, while in Hakka area, "lanterns are held for banquets" to entertain villagers, while in Zhucun, a famous cultural village in Guangzhou, "people lanterns" are hung high to pray for newcomers. Although the custom of greeting "Tianding" varies from place to place, it is full of good wishes and expectations of every household for "Ding Xin".

2. Son-in-law's Day

On New Year's Day, the biggest custom is son-in-law day, and the father-in-law will invite his son-in-law to dinner at home. The origin of this custom is also quite related. First, the first reason is that on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the daughter will take her husband and children back to her parents' home to pay a New Year call. In the eyes of the ancients, when they come and go, they must have come and gone. On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, my father-in-law celebrated God's birthday at home. By the eleventh, there were still many delicacies left at home to worship God, so he invited his son-in-law home on the eleventh lunar month.

Taboos on New Year's Day are as follows:

1, New Year's Day, 11, don't move, because don't move in the first month, it's not good to move in the first month, otherwise it's unlucky.

2. It is not recommended to change clothes and wash quilts on New Year's Day: because the old custom thinks that it is unlucky to change clothes in the first month, remember not to change quilts on this day.

3. Shaving your head is very taboo on New Year's Day. Shaving your head is forbidden throughout the first month. Some folks say that shaving your head hurts your uncle. According to the old man Fang Zhiyun, the imperial edict of shaving before the Qing Dynasty was implemented in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, and the system of the Ming Dynasty changed. During the Republic of China, many people shaved their hair and thought about the old man, so they called it "thinking about the old." Then people passed it on as "dead uncle".