Things not to do in the New Year Forbidden in the New Year

Do not cut your hair during the New Year. There is a folk saying that if you don't cut your hair in the first month, you will die if you cut your hair, which means that you can't cut your hair in the first month, and if you cut your hair, it may have an adverse effect on your uncle, which is very bad.

You can't use a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and ruin your fortune. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still preserve the custom of cleaning up before Chinese New Year's Eve and not using a broom on New Year's Day.

Can break the dishes and chopsticks in the first month to pay attention to avoid breaking the dishes and chopsticks, at this time to break things, can not be regarded as "broken" to see. Because in the New Year, it is auspicious to be reunited, and once something is broken, it symbolizes the incompleteness of the family. For the record:

Here are some things you can't do during the New Year:

01. You can't use a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and ruin your wealth. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still preserve a sock and silver custom, which is cleaned before Chinese New Year's Eve, and does not sweep the letter and shout on the first day of the new year, does not take out the garbage, and prepares a large bucket of waste water, and does not splash it on the same day.

In the New Year, you should not break the furniture, it is a sign of bankruptcy, you must quickly say "the year (broken) years are safe" or "the ground blossoms, wealth and glory".

02. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter returns to her parents' house and asks her husband to accompany her, so it is commonly known as "Son-in-law Day". On this day, the daughter who returns to her parents' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to give to her mother's children, and have lunch at her parents' house, but must rush back to her mother-in-law's house before dinner. In the past, families would also choose this day to take a family photo.

03, the third day of the Lunar New Year is also known as the Red Dog Day, with the same sound as "Chikou", usually do not go out to pay New Year's greetings, and legend has it that it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been outdated, because it is now rare for people to reunite during the Spring Festival, and this has been diluted a lot.

04, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to worship the God of Wealth, in the past, the boss wanted to "fire the squid", and he was not invited to worship God on this day, and the other party knew it, and he cleaned up and left. There is also a legend that the Lord of the Stove is going to check the household registration on this day, so it is not advisable to go far.

05. The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is commonly known as breaking five, and it is necessary to "catch up with the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, academic poverty, literary poverty, life poverty, and friendship poverty". People get up at dawn to set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and you go out the door as you go.

It is said that all unlucky things will be blasted out of the feast. On this day, the popular food custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the villain's mouth", on the day of Tianjin people's breaking five, every household eats dumplings, and the cutting board should be chopped to make a dingdong sound, so that the neighbors can hear, in order to show that the "villain" is chopping.

1. Do not kill in the first month.

In ancient times, it was rumored that the birthday of the mother of the 'priest god' who had passed the path of animal reincarnation was on the eighth day of the first month, so the 'priest god' would close the path of reincarnation to celebrate the mother's birthday in the first month, so the spirits of the beasts you killed could not enter the six realms of reincarnation and would follow you until the third day of the next month.

2. The New Year is taboo to be revealed.

The 30th day of the lunar calendar is the most cloudy day of the year, and there is (hanging money) is a kind of torture tool in ancient times.

3. Don't watch red happy events in the first month.

The first month of the new year is the season of 'underworld marriage' in the old calendar, because the first month of the underworld is the same as the yang, there is a holiday, and all the things in the underworld can come to the yang, so when you see a married person in the wilderness, don't stop**.

4. Do not get a haircut in the New Year.

The old saying goes: the first month of the haircut dead uncle, in fact, it is not, the book of the "Book of Rites" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty records that the first month of the haircut originally meant "thinking of the old" after the rumor, passed onto the "dead uncle", but the first month of the year does not cut the hair of the first generation of the Tang Dynasty originated in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang people called the haircut "eliminate the ear" Tang Dynasty has a ** name called "Jin Yue" is used in the Tang Dynasty to execute the death penalty for the heinous prisoners, the machete used when cutting off the head, and the first month in the Tang Dynasty is called the "Golden Moon" The first month of the month haircut and up is the "Jin Yue Eliminate the ear", which is the meaning of cutting off the head on the Dharma field.

1. The number of gifts cannot be odd.

3. Do not give gifts that do not match the identity of the other party. Chinese pay attention to "good things come in pairs", in all aspects of ordinary life are reflected, when getting married, the bride to prepare the dowry to be a double number, children when the moon to add dishes and chopsticks to the double number, when purchasing New Year goods, some household items are generally also even numbers, so the New Year gift is the same reason, in the concept of Chinese, singular is not auspicious.

New Year's gifts are all expressions of good wishes, so in the choice of gifts, we should also pay attention to the selection of good meaning, and if you give some gifts with bad meaning, it will inevitably cause misunderstandings and affect the friendship between each other.

New Year's gifts, in order to make the other party happy, so that the relationship between each other is better, so the gift must choose the right one for the other party, as the so-called "to their liking", must choose in line with the other party's identity, the gift must be so that the other party can use it, that is, the word practical, so that you will think of you when you see the gift, so as to deepen the good impression.

In the New Year, there are taboos such as not shaving your head, not buying shoes, not seeing a doctor, not using needles and threads, etcWhat are the traditional customs and taboos from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month in the old days?

1. The first day of the first lunar month is the first day of the Lunar New Year, which marks the end of the "old year" and the beginning of the "new year" of the lunar calendar. On this day, people express their expectations for the new year in the way of keeping the New Year, greeting the New Year, sticking chickens, and setting off firecrackers. While celebrating the New Year, there have been some taboos among the people, such as not using a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise it will sweep away luck and attract the "broom star" and cause bad luck.

2. On the second day of the first lunar month, according to traditional customs, this day is the "legal day" for the married daughter to return to the door and the aunt to pay New Year's greetings to the father-in-law and mother-in-law. This custom is called "eclipse day" by the Chaoshan people. As the name suggests, it's just lunch, and the daughter has to rush back to her in-laws' house before dinner.

In the north, people will worship the God of Wealth on the second day of the first lunar month, and on this day, whether it is a business shop or an ordinary family, they will hold a festival to worship the God of Wealth, in order to pray for a great fortune this year.

3. The third day of the first month is the "Little New Year's Dynasty". Legend has it that the third night of the Lunar New Year is the day of "rats marrying", in order to avoid disturbing the "rats", people will turn off the lights early and go to bed, and sprinkle some rice grains and cakes around the house, which means "sharing money with rats"; At the same time, this day is also the birthday of millet, so there is also a custom of avoiding rice.

The third day of the first lunar month is also known as the "Red Dog Day", and it is commonly said that the Red Dog is the "God of Anger", which will bring bad luck, so the third day of the first lunar month is regarded as a bad day, and everyone does not go out to worship the New Year on this day or feast at home.

4. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, on this day, the whole family will gather together to eat oriro (a hodgepodge of leftovers), clean the room, and pile the garbage in one place to prepare to "throw the poor".

The fourth day of the Lunar New Year, also known as Sheep Day. It is the day when Chinese folk welcome the gods, on this day people will prepare sacrifices, cakes and fruits, incense candles and other things, burn incense and worship; In the old days, merchants closed their doors from the first day to the fourth day of the new year, and the market opened on the fifth day of the new year.

5. The fifth day of the first month, also known as breaking five. On this day, people get up early in the morning, set off firecrackers, clean up, and throw away the garbage accumulated in the previous days means "sending the poor"; The people have always regarded the fifth day of the first lunar month as the "birthday of the God of Wealth", and in order to seek profit in the market, merchants will choose to open the market on this day**; There are many taboos from the first day to the fifth day of the new year, and many taboos can be broken after this day, so people will eat dumplings on the fifth day of the new year to celebrate.

The above content reference: People's Daily Online-Do you know these customs and taboos in the first month?