Can married women go back to their parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival? What are the rules?
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's traditional festivals, with many taboos and etiquette. Want to know more about the folk taboos of the Dragon Boat 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 married women go back to their parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival?Regarding the issue of married women returning to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, different regions have different opinions, but most regions tend to believe that it is allowed.Sayings that you can go back to your mother's home: The Dragon Boat Festival was called "Daughter's Day" in ancient times. "Wan Shu Miscellaneous Notes" by Chen Bang of the Ming Dynasty said: "Daughter's Day in May, people tie Dragon Boat Festival ropes, wear moxa leaves and five poisonous spirit talismans. Wan custom is to dress up little girls from the first to the fifth day of May, and marry girls also return to their parents' homes. Therefore, it is called the Daughter's Day." In ancient times, after a daughter got married, she would live in her husband's home for a long time and rarely saw her parents. From the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a custom of returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, commonly known as "Returning to the Parents' Home." From the first to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, unmarried girls will be dressed up beautifully and show their beauty to the best of their ability, and married daughters will return to their parents' homes. In many places in our country, there is a custom of returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, in Zigui, Hubei, there is a saying among the people that "Dragon Boat Festival is bigger than New Year's Day, and girls return to their parents' homes." A married woman should bring her husband and children back to her parents' home to meet them. The daughter's parents have to prepare wine and food and invite relatives and friends to spend a happy day together. In addition, Beijing, Guangzhou and other places also have corresponding customs. Although the specific customs in different places are different, the essence is the same. Reasons why you can’t go back to your parents’ home: In Shandong and other places in our country, there is a saying that married women should not return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom is more popular in Shandong area. They believe that married daughters cannot return to their parents' home for the Dragon Boat Festival, and even if they do, they cannot eat rice dumplings, otherwise it will bring bad luck. As the most traditional region in my country, married women in these places are generally not allowed to return to their parents' home during major festivals. There is even a proverb that goes "If you eat rice dumplings from your parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, your family will be wiped out", which means that if you eat rice dumplings from your parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, your relatives will encounter disasters. Of course, these are just old habits, which doesn’t mean they are still applicable now. Many of these sayings and folk taboos are no longer popular, so we should not look at these old customs with a regional discrimination mentality. If you are willing, you are willing, and if you are unwilling, you are unwilling. Just stay true to yourself. Do you want to know your own Bazi? Want to figure out where your golden marriage is? Click on the [Premium Calculation] below to calculate your horoscope and fortune! |
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