What is the third day of the New Year also known as

The third day of the Lunar New Year is also known as Xiao Nian Chao, Red Dog Day, Pig Day, Mouse Marrying Day, and Gu Zi Birthday. Xiao Nianchao is the festival of heavenly celebrations, also known as the Red Dog Day. Legend has it that the Red Dog is the god of _ anger, and those who meet him will definitely be unlucky, so the third day of the Lunar New Year is a bad day, and it is not advisable to go out. It is said that in the first three with whom to pay homage to the New Year, will be with the suspicion of volatile false who quarrel, and therefore do not pay homage to the New Year; in addition, the word has the meaning of abject poverty, so the Chinese folk also do not feast on this day, it will be a violation of the red dog, bring poverty.

As an ancient Chinese traditional festival, according to legend, this day Nvwa created the pig. Celery burning Chinese folklore is the night of the third day of the first three is the day of the rat to marry, so the average family is early lights out to sleep, so as not to disturb the rat.

Also Hall noisy some people say into the night early lights out is to make the rat can not see, can not marry, in order to reduce the speed of its reproduction, and in the corner of the house sprinkled with some rice grains, cakes and cakes for the rat to eat, known as the rat to share the money, said and the rat **** to enjoy a year of bountiful harvests.

Chinese folk to the first three days of the first month for the birthday of the Valley, this day to wish sacrifices to pray for the year, and forbidden to eat rice. As for the origin of the story of "the mouse married", may be because the third is the red dog day, all things are not appropriate, in order to avoid the evil, so for the early bedtime to find an excuse.