What are the customs and taboos of the New Year?

1. New Year's Eve: Reunion Dinner

On this day all people go home for a reunion dinner.

Setting up the heaven and earth offering table, resigning, observing and welcoming the New Year ......

The firecrackers are endless on this day, and people look forward to a new year in which they can have better luck and good fortune.

2. The first day of the year: paying homage to the New Year

Paying homage to the New Year is a traditional Chinese folk custom.

After waking up on the first day of the Lunar New Year, one first pays homage to one's elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best.

After the elders receive the gift, they start to give out the New Year's money.

After paying tribute to the elders at home, people go out to pay tribute to their friends and relatives, neighbors and neighbors, and when they meet each other on the road, they should also congratulate the New Year with a big smile and say to each other "congratulations on your fortune" and "Happy New Year".

3, the second day of the year: back to his mother's home

The second day of the first month of the new year, most areas of China have the custom of returning to his mother's home. This day is also called "son-in-law day",

Daughters married off, on the second day of the New Year, have brought their husbands and children back to their parents' homes to pay homage to the New Year.

Together with their siblings, who have not seen them for a long time, they catch up on old times and talk about family life.

4, the third day of the year: red dog day

The third day of the first month of the year is also known as the small New Year's Day, also known as the red dog day.

Legend has it that the night of this day is the day of the mouse to marry, so the general family are early to turn off the lights and go to bed, so as not to disturb the mouse to marry.

And in the corner of the house sprinkled some rice grains, cakes, for the mouse to eat, known as the mouse to share the money, said and the mouse **** enjoy a year's harvest.

Chinese folk to the first three days of the first month for the birthday of the grain, this day to wish sacrifices to pray for the year, and forbidden to eat rice.

5, the fourth day of the year: pick up the day

The fourth day of the year, also known as the day of the sheep. It is a day for Chinese folk to welcome the gods.

This day in the old almanac accounted for the sheep, it is often said that the "three sheep (Yang) Kai Tai" is a symbol of good luck, but also to welcome the God of the kitchen stove back to the folk days.

The fifth day is the God of Fortune's birthday, in order to compete for the market, so many people in the fourth day of the God of Fortune first, also known as "grab the head of the road".

The afternoon of the fourth, people are ready to three animals, fruits, wine, food, this night until the morning of the fifth, everyone burns incense and candles to burn gold, to meet the God of Fortune's arrival.

6, the fifth day of the year: break five

This day is the birth of the God of Fortune, people pick up the five-way God of Fortune to their homes, blessing themselves with a year of wealth and prosperity.

Many people will also choose this day to open the market, that the choice of this day to open the market will attract wealth.

This day is also the Day of the Broken Five.

The word "break" in "break five" means to break and break through. "It means to break all the taboos from the first day of the month to the fifth day of the month.

Previously, there were a lot of folk taboos from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month of the folk, such as not to use raw rice to cook, women can not move the needle and thread, can not clean up, can not break things and so on.

After the first five days, these taboos were lifted.

7, the sixth day of the year: send poor

The sixth day of the first month of the year is the day of the horse: to prepare the fields for spring plowing, the poor sent out.

On this day to send poor, all over China to send poor.

Old Beijingers in this day, to the festival accumulated garbage thrown out, called send poor people, the door on the hanging paper can also be taken off at the same time thrown out, called send poor.

Send away the old poverty and hardship, to meet the new year's good life.

8, the seventh day of the year: Human Day Festival

Legend has it that Nuwa created man on the seventh day, so the seventh day of the first month of the year, is the birth of mankind.

Folk used to call this day "Man Day" "Man Day Festival" or "Man Sheng Festival".

On this day, the Chinese people wear Ren Sheng, eat seven treasures of soup, eat noodles, climb up high and write poems.

The Day of Man reflects the ancient Chinese working people's desire to pray for good luck and good fortune, as well as their respect for man himself.

9, the first month of the 15th: Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of the first yuan, the small first month, the first night or the Festival of Lights, for the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar each year, is the last important festival in the Chinese New Year customs.

People go out to enjoy the moon, light lanterns and set off fireworks, guess lantern riddles, and **** eat the Lantern Festival, which is lively and festive.

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Nine taboos on New Year's Day

1, posting the word taboo

New Year's Day home to post the word is to pay attention to the "door blessing", and then post the hall of "blessing", and then finally post the "inverted blessing". This order is very important steps, can not be reversed.

Ancient people had a strict calculation of the location and number of blessings, but today's people are not so strict.

Posting the word "Fu" on the front door has the meaning of opening the door and welcoming good fortune, so the front door is usually not posted "upside down Fu".

2, the New Year's Eve forbid students

The New Year's Eve is a family reunion day, and then far away relatives will have to go a long way to the wind and snow to the home, the family sits together, have a reunion dinner.

This day, families **** enjoy the joy of family, the most taboo is outsiders, debt collection, which will interfere with the atmosphere of family reunion, so New Year's Eve, try not to go to other people's homes, outsiders also generally choose to reject the visit.

This day it is best not to go to other people's homes to collect debts, or most likely will be enemies.

3, there is a son in the family, forbidding married daughters to spend New Year's Eve at home.

After the New Year, married daughters are not allowed to return home in families with sons until the second or third day of the New Year.

The old saying, this is called "the daughter does not step on the dust and grass of her mother's house", which means that if the daughter goes back to the door at this time, it will cut off her mother's family's flavor.

The real reason for this is that in the past, in a patriarchal society, many women who were already "women" (especially those who were rich and powerful) ran to their mother's house.

This led to discord between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, affecting the stability of the family, so in order to ensure that the mother-in-law's family is reunited, so the saying came into being.

4, prohibit moving and moving earth

The first month are the ancient days of sacrifice, such an important day to talk about is to enter the wealth and wealth.

Moving in the first month will result in the gods not being able to find a home, and they will naturally have tempers.

That's why the ancients had the saying that moving in the first month is poor.

5, the year 30 home water tank is not full

In the past, there is no running water, New Year's water tank must be full of water.

Water is wealth.

The New Year's Eve, there is water in the house, that is, the year of wealth and prosperity.

6, "the first month does not shave the head"

Most places in our country are circulating "the first month does not shave the head, shaving the head of the death of uncle" custom.

The custom originated in 1644 around the time the Qing court issued the shaving order.

The first month of cutting the head of the dead uncle is purely a misrepresentation.

The meaning of not cutting one's head is "thinking of the past", a custom that has been passed down since the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty ordered all nationals to cut their hair, some people for the nostalgia of the Ming Dynasty, in the first month of the month not cut hair to show "thinking of the old".

But they couldn't openly confront the Qing government, so they came up with the saying, "Cutting one's hair in the first month of the lunar year kills one's uncle," which has been passed down to the present day.

7, the first day to the fifth, avoid sweeping the garbage out of the door.

New Year's Day before to worship "Zao Wang", send away after "Zao Wang", the New Year's Eve before the 30th night to be cleaned up, called "sweeping dust", in addition to the old and welcome the new meaning, to the New Year! The days are taboo to clean.

The first five days of the first taboo on dumping garbage, can not be swept out of the door or pouring sewage, fear of sweeping away the wealth of the home.

8, the first day of the New Year is forbidden to rush people out of bed, forbidden laundry.

The water god's birthday on the first and second, so it is taboo to wash clothes in these two days.

The morning of the first day of the year do not rush people out of bed, that will make the other person will be rushed to do things throughout the year.

So families with children generally do not stay in bed, parents over and over again to urge, will be very unlucky.

9, do not say "New Year's words"

"New Year's Eve dead donkeys, not good must also say good".

Cooking dumplings on New Year's Eve, cooking broken can not say broken, broken, have to cheerfully say: "earned".

Breaking dishes, to quickly say "years of peace".

The rural people believe that the root of the year and the beginning of the year, the old earth and the old mother and all the gods and ghosts, all at home, say anything can be prophetic.

So we must say more good words, maybe the gods and ancestors a blessing, it will be realized.