Can a woman who gets married on Dragon Boat Festival go back to her parents’ home to celebrate the festival? What are the taboos when returning to your mother’s home?
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals. However, not everyone knows whether women who get married on the Dragon Boat Festival can go back to their parents’ home to celebrate the festival. So, let’s take a look at whether women who get married on the Dragon Boat Festival can go back to their parents’ home to celebrate the festival? The fifth month of the lunar calendar is the plum rain season, and the rain at this time is very precious for crops. For more content about the fifth month of the lunar calendar, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo’s special feature on the fifth month of the lunar calendar!Can a woman who gets married on Dragon Boat Festival go back to her parents’ home to celebrate the festival?Whether you can go back to your parents' home to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival depends on the local customs and habits.Because our country is vast, the customs of returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival are different in different regions. In some areas, people believe that returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival will bring bad luck to that family. In some areas, people think that they need to go back to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival and cannot stay at their husband's home. In some areas, the Dragon Boat Festival is regarded as the day of returning home, when married daughters need to bring their husbands and children back to their parents' home. Therefore, whether a married woman can return to her parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival also needs to be judged based on local customs and habits. Introduction to Beijing customs: "Wan Shu Miscellaneous Notes" by Chen Bang of the Ming Dynasty recorded the customs in Beijing at that time: from the first to the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, people dressed up their little girls to the utmost. The married daughters also returned home during this period. Introduction to customs in Suzhou, Hubei and Chengdu: During the Dragon Boat Festival, women bring their children under one year old back to their parents' home, which is called "hiding from the Wu", meaning that the children can avoid the evil spirits of the Dragon Boat Festival. Shandong customs introduction: In Shandong area, there is a saying that you cannot go back to your mother's home during the Dragon Boat Festival. They believe that if a married daughter returns to her parents' home on the Dragon Boat Festival, it will bring bad luck to her family, so they do not allow their married daughter to return to her parents' home. Therefore, whether a woman who gets married during the Dragon Boat Festival can return to her parents' home is recommended to be judged based on local customs and habits. What are the taboos when returning to your mother’s home?1. A married girl on the first day of the first lunar month must celebrate the New Year at her mother-in-law’s house. Even if she does not go back to her mother-in-law’s house, she cannot celebrate the New Year at her own parents’ house.2. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Reunion Festival. You cannot go back to your parents’ home and must celebrate the New Year at your mother-in-law’s home. 3. You cannot go back to your parents’ home on the second day of the second lunar month, the day when the dragon raises its head. 4. On Qingming Festival, you cannot go back to your parents' home, and women cannot go to sweep graves, no matter if it is at your mother-in-law's home or your parents' home. Women cannot go to the cemetery. 5. May 5th is the Dragon Boat Festival. Even children know that this day is to commemorate Qu Yuan. However, we cannot go back to our parents’ home on this day. Why? Although it is said that the fifth day of May is the day to take care of our mother-in-law, it means that if we go back to our parents’ home on this day, it will be bad for our mother-in-law. 6. The first day of the sixth lunar month is a popular celebration here. After the first day of the sixth lunar month, it means that half of the year has passed. No matter how big or small it is a festival, also called the half year celebration. Therefore, you cannot go back to your mother’s home on the first day of the sixth lunar month. 7. July 15th is Ghost Festival. You cannot go back to your parents’ home on this day. No one can tell why, but since you are married, you have to abide by this rule. 8. This festival is a big festival, August 15th, the reunion festival can of course only be celebrated at the mother-in-law’s house. If a married girl spends August 15th at her parents’ house, the neighbors will use it as a topic of gossip, so no one dares to take the risk. 9. You cannot go back to your mother’s home on the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th. 10. It is the Winter Solstice. It is said that this day is not good for the father-in-law, so on this day you must stay at home, or it is better to go to the mother-in-law's house. |
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