What are the customs and taboos of the third day of the first month?

The third day of the first month is also known as the small New Year's Day, also known as the Red Dog Day, as an ancient traditional Chinese festival, the third day of the first month of feng shui and taboos are what?

Customs

1, go to bed early and get up late

In folklore, the third night is the day of the mouse to marry, so the average family will turn off the lights and go to bed early, so that the mouse in the absence of light can not be normal to marry, the next year will not be born to a large number of rats to steal food to eat, but also reduce the rate of reproduction of rats, to preserve their own harvest of grain.

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2, burn the door god paper

Burning the door god paper is a traditional folk culture, to the third day of the New Year we will be over the festive pine and cypress branches and hung door god and so on together with incineration, said the year is over, and to start running a business. There's a saying that goes something like this: "If you burn the paper, you'll be able to find a way to make a living".

3, grain birthday

Folk believe that the third day of the first month of the grain birthday, so this day to pray for the year, and fasting rice.

4, Xiaonianzhao

Also known as Tianqing Festival. Song dynasty court festival, Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu first year, because of the rumors of heavenly books down to earth, Zhenzong issued an edict, the first three days of the first month of the day for the Tianqing Festival, officials and other leave for five days. Later, it was called the Small New Year's Day, and it was the same as the Annual Day without sweeping the ground, begging for fire, or drawing water.

5, Pig Day

Chinese folklore says that the third day of the first month of the year is the day that Nuwa created the pig, so it is called Pig Day. Therefore, people cannot kill pigs on this day.

Taboo

1, avoid visiting friends and relatives

The third day of the Lunar New Year, the old custom known as the "Hungry Ghost Day". This day to avoid visiting friends and relatives, but with the progress of the times, people rarely get together in the Spring Festival **** New Year's Eve, for this taboo has been diluted a lot.

2, taboo worship

The third day of the Lunar New Year, also known as the red dog day, is an inauspicious day, the red dog is the god of anger, encountered with the bad things. Therefore, people generally do not go out on this day, stay at home, so as not to meet the evil spirits. Therefore, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, it is not appropriate to go out or pay New Year's visit, whether it is a relative or a friend's house.

3, avoid breaking things

New Year's Eve is not allowed to break things, fell to rush to say: years and years (broken) peace. This is to remind people not to get carried away on New Year's Day, wasting objects. They should be careful so as to seek good fortune in the coming year.

4, avoid cleaning, avoid sweeping the garbage out of the door

Cleaning is generally cleaned before New Year's Eve, there is the meaning of the old and welcome the new, in the New Year's Eve is forbidden to clean. Because the first to the fifth cleaning room, pouring garbage will be the home of the wealth and also poured out.