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The implication of bathing on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new every year. That's what bathing means. Getting rid of this year's bad luck is a good omen.

You can take a bath on New Year's Eve, and some places have the custom of washing your hair and taking a bath on New Year's Eve. You can wash your hair and take a bath on New Year's Eve, which means to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year to take a bath and change clothes. This is also a good sign. Taking a bath on New Year's Eve can get rid of today's foul smell to welcome the New Year, and you can't say unlucky things after taking a bath on New Year's Eve.

Some pressures on New Year's Eve

Speaking of New Year's Eve, the first thing to mention is New Year's Eve. No matter how far away, many people from other places will definitely go home, just to have a big New Year's Eve dinner with their families. New Year's Eve is a reunion dinner, which is slightly different between the north and the south, but most of them will have jiaozi (reunion), chicken (Geely) and fish (for more than a year), some places will eat noodles (for a long time), and some places will eat rice cakes (rising year by year).

New Year's Eve is the most important day among the customs in Taiwan Province Province, and there are quite a few customs. First, we should resign from the New Year and decorate the "hall head", that is, put on new prints and couplets in the hall dedicated to the "Guanyin Bodhisattva" and the gods. In the afternoon, an "annual resignation" ceremony was held. The altar is dedicated to five sacrifices and various festivals, and then to the ancestors, kneeling three times and knocking nine times to express gratitude to the gods and ancestors for their blessing and pray for more good luck in the new year.