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Why can't steamed bread be steamed in the first month?

Because it is a traditional custom, from the first day of the first month to the end of the fifth day of the first month, you can't make a fire to steam steamed buns, and you can't cook. Steaming and arguing are homophonic, frying and noisy are unlucky, so there is a custom of not steaming steamed bread in the first month.

In fact, there is no strict requirement for not steaming things in the first month. It's just a tradition left by the older generation With the development of society, there is basically no such habit now. There used to be a saying that women should rest. In the past, women were basically busy cooking and working all year, which was very hard. In order to give them a rest during the Spring Festival, there is a saying that they can't steam things in the first month.

Secondly, the weather in the first month is wet and it often rains. Things such as steamed bread and steamed buns are too much, so it is not easy to keep them, and they may go moldy and deteriorate in a few days. In those days when food and materials were very scarce, this was not allowed. So in order to avoid this situation, there is such a habit.

Why steamed bread can't be steamed in the first month.

There is a proverb in the northern countryside, twenty-eight, making noodles, twenty-nine, steaming steamed bread. Steamed steamed bread is made of dough. This means that doing business in the coming year will certainly bring a wide range of financial resources and make a lot of money. Secondly, steamed bread will burn a fire, and its volume will increase a lot when it matures, which means that the days in the coming year will be prosperous and prosperous. Furthermore, there is an old saying in China that if you don't steam steamed bread, you have to fight for breath. The meaning is obvious, which is to educate children to study hard and work hard.

There are also many taboos during the Chinese New Year. Every new year, the old people will tell the children what to say and what not to say in advance. For example, you can't say steaming from the first day to the fifth day, because steaming and fighting for harmony are easy to cause fights. Therefore, every household steamed more steamed buns before the year, saving the next year's food, and stopped steaming steamed buns from the first day to the fifth day.

In short, it is absolutely forbidden to say unlucky things on holidays. In order to make the family harmonious, beautiful and smooth in the new year, we deliberately avoid some things that are easy to remind people of bad things. And let the children say more auspicious words.