What are the customs from the first day to the fifteenth?

Customs of the first to fifteen:

The first day of the first month of New Year's Eve before sweeping clean, the first day of the first year not out of the broom, do not dump the garbage, a large bucket of wastewater, the day does not splash. New Year's Day also can not break furniture, broken is the omen of bankruptcy, you have to quickly say "years (broken) years of peace" or "the ground to blossom, wealth and honor.

The second day of the first month of the second day of the first month of the New Year is also a New Year's Eve, but this day married out of the girl is to take the son-in-law to go with his mother's family. Among them, there are many rules for the newlyweds to go to their mother's house. For example, all gifts must be in pairs. The mother's family can't accept all of them, and when they go back to their husband's family, they have to bring back some of them.

Traditional customs on the third day of the first month of the new year, the third day of the first month of the new year is considered to be the day of the mouse to marry her daughter, so at night to rest early, can not disturb the mouse to marry their daughters. Rats have a big "who do not let me live this day, I let who hard a whole year," the flavor, if you disturb the rat to marry their daughters, the rat is going to wreak havoc on the family.

The first four days of the first month of the fourth year is the day of sacrifice to the God of Wealth, in the past, the boss wants to "fire" someone, this day will not invite him to worship God, the other side will know, since the person pack up and go. There is also a legend that says that the king of the stove on this day to come to check the account, so it is not advisable to go far away.

The first five days of the first month of the first five is also known as the "broken five", this day is a big day for businessmen, praying for a year of prosperity, to welcome the God of Wealth is this day. "Shops will open on this day and firecrackers will be set off."

The God of Wealth was just welcomed in on the sixth and fifth days of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the God of Poverty is to be sent away on the sixth day. On the day of sending away the God of Poverty, you have to do a big cleaning at home, and you have to throw away all the garbage and useless rags and so on. In addition, you should drink a kind of vegetable soup, which is made of seven kinds of vegetables, such as spinach and bok choy.

The seventh day of the first month of the year is also known as the "People's Victory Festival", "People's Celebration Festival", "Population Day", "People's Seventh Day" and so on. It is also known as "People's Victory Festival", "People's Celebration Festival", "Population Day" and "People's 7th Day". Legend has it that when Nuwa first created the world, she made animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, cows and horses, and then made people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Han Dynasty began to human day festival custom, Wei Jin began to emphasize. Ancient human day has to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, from the Jin Dynasty began to cut color for the flowers, cut color for the people, or openwork gold foil for people to paste the screen, but also wear in the hair.

The eighth day of the first month of the folk to the eighth day of the first month of the stars, the system of small lamps burned and sacrificed, known as Shunxing, also known as the "Star Festival", "catching the star". Legend has it that the eighth day of the month is the birthday of Guzi. This day the weather is sunny, the Lord of the day a good harvest of rice, the sky is cloudy, the year is poor.

The ninth day of the first month of the first nine days of the first month of the day, commonly known as "Tian Gongsheng", legend has it that this day for the Jade Emperor's birthday. The main customs are sacrificed to the Jade Emperor, Taoist temple fasting, etc., some places, the day, women prepared incense and candles, fasting bowls, placed in the Tianjing alleyway in the open air to worship the heavens, and ask for blessings from the God of Heaven.

This day on the tenth day of the first month where the mill, milling and other stone tools can not be moved, and even set up sacrifices to enjoy the stone, for fear of injuring crops. Also known as the "stone does not move" "ten does not move". Henan custom this day to the stone family incense to pay tribute. Lunch must eat bun cake, that eating cake within a year will be prosperous. In Shandong Yuncheng and other places to lift the stone God's move. The first nine nights, people will be a tile jar frozen in a smooth stone, by ten young men or ten young girls take turns carrying the tile jar away. If the stone does not fall to the ground, it is a sign of a good harvest that year.

The first eleven days of the first month of folk songs have "eleven son-in-law," that is, the first eleven days of the first month is ''son-in-law day," the fathers-in-law in the day of the feast son-in-law. According to legend, this is because the first nine days to celebrate the "heavenly public birth" of food to the first ten days still can not eat, so, in the eleventh day of the day used to invite the son-in-law to eat, the mother's family do not have to break the cost.

The twelfth day of the first month, from New Year's Day to the eleventh day of the first month, most of the food people eat is rich and full of oil. Therefore, from this day onwards, people begin to eat light, clean and moisturize their intestines. What's more, since it will be the Lantern Festival in three days, preparations will be made from this day. Families will buy lanterns and build lantern huts.

Today is the 13th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Preparations for the Lantern Festival continue. In southern China, lanterns are admired on this day. A steady stream of Chinese people will go to the City God Temple to enjoy the lanterns on this day. And this is just the prelude to the Lantern Festival. Besides the traditional red lanterns, there are many different styles of lanterns. The lantern show usually starts today and ends on the 18th day of the first month.

Today is the 14th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. In most parts of China, everything on the fourteenth day is for the Lantern Festival the next day. It is on this day that the Lantern Festival is open for the public to buy lanterns. For the Lantern Festival, performances like dragon dances and lion dances begin to maneuver through the streets. There are also people who write and guess lantern riddles to add to the festive cheer. Lantern riddles are very traditional charades in China. Adults and children alike love to solve them.

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar to eat the Lantern Festival, "Lantern Festival" as a food, also has a long history in China. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".