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Can you use needle and thread on the first day of the year

The reasons why you can't use a needle and thread on the first day of the new year are as follows:

Chinese people tend to be very traditional, and they will take a look at the Yellow Calendar on special days to understand what they are suitable for, and what things are taboo.

The first day of the first month of the year is a time when you should not use needles and threads, or else the year ahead will be a time of endless debate, and will bring you misfortune and disaster, and can even jeopardize your future. It is best not to use needle and thread scissors at this time.

Some things are not suitable to do on the first day of the first month of the year, do taboo things will attract bad luck. For example, you can't eat thin rice for breakfast. Some families are used to eating Chinese breakfast, breakfast must come to a bowl of hot rice, but on the first day of the day or change to eat a dry rice it.

Because the ancients believed that only poor people eat rice, if you eat rice will be poor for a whole year, on the other hand, eat dry rice on behalf of a whole year will be very rich. The first day of the first remember not to shout each other's names to wake up, because this represents the other person will be a whole year will be urged to do things. You can't pay New Year's greetings to someone who is sleeping.

This festival is a good time to do something meaningful and to honor ethnic traditions. On this day, you can not go to relatives without bringing gifts, gifts each period has its own characteristics.

Sixties and seventies of the last century, usually bring steamed buns, buns, pastries, meat, eggs, soju, etc.; the late eighties, it is peach crisp, canned food, sugar, persimmons, baklava, cakes, wine, honey, etc.; the nineties, in addition to wine, fish, meat, powdered milk, etc. began to prevail;

Twenty-first century, mostly fruits, milk, tea, and so on; a little bit more elegant, there are flowers, books, music records and so on.