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Can't you ask for money before the 15th of the first month

It is not advisable to collect debts before the fifteenth day of the first month.

New Year's Eve this time the year has not yet passed, it will be very inauspicious, there are many places in the market have this aspect of the saying and industry customs, it depends on the customer's situation, if you can avoid this time to go to chase the year before the payment of the best. If it is a new customer or the order after the year, we have to make it clear with the guests beforehand.

The folk saying that, from the beginning of the lunar New Year (Lunar 23), to the first month of the lunar calendar, the day of the fifteenth stop, people are not appropriate to borrow money to pay off debts, or else the future year is unfavorable. A further saying holds that one should not borrow money throughout the whole of the first month, and if one borrows money to. If one lends money to someone in the first month, it implies that one's family's wealth is flowing out.

Taboos in the first month

The broom cannot be used on the first day of the first month of the new year, otherwise it will sweep away luck and break the fortune. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside. To today many places are still preserved a custom, before New Year's Eve clean, the first day of the year not out of the broom, do not pour the garbage, prepare a large bucket of waste water, the day does not splash.

The first month of the taboo view red wedding. Few men and women in ancient times in the first month of marriage, the ancient "red" said, that is, men and women in the first month of marriage, is the month of the year pressure head, not good for children and grandchildren, so the first month of very few new people to get married.

The third day of the first month, also known as the "red dog day", usually this day do not go out to pay homage to the New Year, the legend says that this day is prone to quarrels with people. There is also a legend that the night of the third is "mouse marriage" day, in order to avoid disturbing the "rats", people will turn off the lights and go to bed early, and sprinkle some grains of rice in all parts of the home, meaning that "rats share the money! "

This is the first time I've ever seen a mouse in my life.