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Customs and taboos on the eleventh day of Lunar New Year's Eve

Taboos and customs on the tenth day of the first month are as follows:

Taboo:

1, it is forbidden to break ground on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, especially some stone tools, such as grinding, chiseling and grinding. Because this day is a stone festival.

On the tenth day, it is forbidden to beat mice at home, especially for friends who belong to mice.

3, avoid lighting, in some places in northern Shanxi, but avoid lighting at night, avoid talking, so as not to disturb the wedding, provoke the mouse god, a year of trouble. Children don't understand, they often believe it, and they don't sleep. They should see clearly.

4. Friends who belong to rats can't stay at home on the tenth night, otherwise it will easily lead to the situation of career and wealth.

The custom of lunar new year

1, stone birthday

On this day, people avoid moving stone tools and do not move stones. They are used to offering sacrifices to the gods of grinding, grinding, plastic and Shi Gandang on Mount Tai. There is also a custom of "the stone does not move" in Henan. On this day, every household should pay tribute to the stone burning incense. You must eat steamed stuffed buns for lunch, thinking that you can make a fortune within one year after eating cake.

Step 2 hang lanterns

In many places, lanterns hung on the tenth day of the first lunar month are called "sky lanterns". "Adding lights" is "Gading". After midnight on the ninth day of the first month, lanterns will be hung. In customs and traditions, it is indeed something to be proud of to hang "headlights" at 0: 00 on the tenth day of the month and light "head incense". Therefore, although it is the tenth day of the lunar calendar, by dawn, lanterns have already been hung on the altar of the country.

3. Lantern wine

Every year, on the 10th day of the first lunar month, every household with boys born the year before hangs lanterns at the altar and ancestral temple. "Lantern wine" is "popular wine", which can be divided into "hanging wine" and "falling wine". There is no need for the host to post an invitation notice. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, relatives, friends and neighbors will send gifts and red envelopes to congratulate them and have fun together.