Can I go back to my mother's house on the sixteenth day of the first month?

Going back to your mother's house is also called returning home. In ancient times, when a woman married her in-laws, she could not go back to her family. Unless it's a certain period of time, going back to her parents' home without authorization will lead to divorce, and parents often think that the woman is not doing well in her husband's family.

The reason why women return to their parents' homes on the 16th day of the first month is because it is the first good day after the New Year. Since ancient times, six is an auspicious number. Therefore, after the reunion day on the fifteenth day of the first month, the sixteenth day of the first month was chosen as the day when the married girl returned to her family. In the past calendar calculation, taking beginning of spring as the boundary, excluding beginning of spring is not the beginning of the New Year, and 16 is the first good day after the New Year.