Why do married people go back to their parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year?

Folk believe that a married daughter can't go back to her mother's house on the first day of the first year, and she will be poor when she goes back to her mother's house. She can only go back to her mother's house on the second day of the second year. On the second day of the first month, it is the day to go back to her mother's house, and it is also the day for her son-in-law to pay New Year greetings to her parents-in-law, commonly known as "Welcome Husband Day".

Going home, also called "going home", is a very distinctive folk custom. On the second day of the first month, the married daughter will go home for a walk with her husband.

In Henan area, except the 15th day of the first month, it is forbidden to go back to one's mother's house to see the lights, but also to offer sacrifices to stoves. Because women don't sacrifice stoves, they don't ask their daughters to go back to their parents' homes on the day of sacrifice. The first day of the first month is the beginning of a year, and the water spilled by the married daughter is married to her husband's family. On New Year's Day, it is naturally inconvenient for the whole family to get together and go back to their parents' home.

The fifteenth day of the first month is also the first full moon day of the year, fearing that the daughter-in-law will not be reunited with her family when she returns home. So it's usually the second day of the first month and the sixteenth day of the first month. In order to take care of the reunion and celebration of both parties to the marriage. There is a saying in Luyi County that "please (girl) on the 16th day of the first month, and deliver it on the 2nd of February. Don't get sick".