Can I spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at my mother’s house? What are the taboos during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Can I spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at my mother’s house? What are the taboos during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
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Can I spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at my mother’s house?

According to folk sayings, whether or not you can go back to your parents' home during the Mid-Autumn Festival depends on the circumstances. Even if you go back, you must return to the government residence on the same day and are not allowed to stay overnight.
There is a folk saying: "If you eat the mooncakes incorrectly, your father-in-law will die." This saying is mainly aimed at women who have just married. As for women who have been married for many years, the older generation believes that they cannot return to their parents’ home during the Mid-Autumn Festival, because once they are married they become public servants, and returning to their parents’ home during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a public expression of dissatisfaction with their in-laws.
1. You can go back to your parents’ home
If a newly married woman spends the first Mid-Autumn Festival at her parents’ home, she will have to spend the following years at her parents’ home.
2. You can’t go back to your parents’ home
If a woman who has just married into a family celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival at her husband’s family in the first year, she cannot return to her parents’ family for the following years.

What are the taboos during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

1. Avoid covering your forehead
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, girls with bangs are advised to brush their hair back or to the sides. Never let your forehead be covered by your hair, because this is where your magic lamp is.
2. Avoid food that is not round
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day to worship the moon, and most Mid-Autumn foods are related to moon worship. The meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival is reunion, so we eat round foods during the festival. Even when cut, they have to be in the shape of a lotus with crescent petals. Food should be served on round plates and bowls.
3. Avoid men worshipping the moon
According to Yanjing Sui Shi Ji by Fu Cha Dunchong of the Qing Dynasty: During the Mid-Autumn Festival, "most men do not bow down to worship the moon. Therefore, a proverb in the capital says: 'Men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the kitchen god.'" The reason for this custom is that the moon belongs to the sun, and Chang'e, the moon goddess, is a female, so only women can participate in the moon worship activity.
4. People with weak physical fitness should not watch the moon
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people with weak bodies are not recommended to go outdoors to admire or worship the moon, especially women who have recently suffered a miscarriage or have just given birth. Even on your own balcony, it is best not to look at the moon. In addition, people whose fortunes have been low recently should not watch the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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