Can I take a shower and wash my hair during the Lantern Festival?

According to tradition, bathing is not allowed during the Lantern Festival.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the most taboo thing is to wash your hair, because the "hair" of hair has the meaning of getting rich. If you wash your hair on this day, you will wash away the wealth for the year, thus So that we can't make any money in the new year. People have blessings on their bodies. If they take a bath, the blessings on their bodies will be washed away. If we are going to travel or have a party on the Lantern Festival, we must wash our whole bodies on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we no longer need to wash our hair or take a shower.

We must abide by the taboos that need to be remembered during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, such as "don't lose 1, don't borrow 2, don't wash 3, and don't see 4". We must abide by the old traditions. In the new year, our lives will be better and better.

Lantern Festival Customs

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of China's traditional festivals and takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Three Yuan" theory, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.

The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, the Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also include traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern parade, lion dance, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.