Can’t I go back to my parents’ home during the Lantern Festival in the first year of marriage? What does it mean to hide from the lanterns during the Lantern Festival?

Can’t I go back to my parents’ home during the Lantern Festival in the first year of marriage? What does it mean to hide from the lanterns during the Lantern Festival?
Introduction: The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals. So can’t you go back to your parents’ home on the first day of your marriage? What does it mean to hide from lanterns during the Lantern Festival? The arrival of the first month of the lunar calendar means that the new year has begun. Do you want to know more about the first month of the lunar calendar? Please visit Shuimoxiansheng.com for the 2020 New Year special topic.

Can’t I go back to my parents’ home during the Lantern Festival in the first year of marriage?

According to traditional customs and ideas, a married daughter cannot spend the Lantern Festival at her parents’ home or see the lanterns there.
"The fire on New Year's Eve and the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month" means that a married girl cannot see the fire on New Year's Eve at her parents' home. If she sees it, she will not get rich and will not be prosperous in the coming year.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also the first full-moon day of the year. The family may not be reunited because the daughter-in-law may go back to her parents' home. So usually people go back to their parents’ home on the second day or the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
In order to take care of the reunion and joy of both parties in the marriage. There is a saying in Luyi County: "Invite a girl on the 16th day of the first lunar month, send her off on the 2nd day of the second lunar month, and you will never get sick in your life."
You cannot go back to your parents' home on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. This rule was very strict in the old society, especially in rural areas. Violating it was considered disrespectful.

What does it mean to hide from lanterns during the Lantern Festival?

In Heilongjiang area, there is a custom that a new bride has to "hide from the lights" for the first three years.
On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month within three years after marriage, the new bride must go to live with her aunt or uncle's house. She is not allowed to look at the lights at her husband's house or her own house.
It is said that if you look at the lights at your husband's house, your father will die; and if you look at the lights at your mother's house, your father-in-law will die. There is also a custom of "hiding from lights" in Henan area. There is a saying among the people such as "If a girl sees the lanterns at her parents' home, her parents will be so poor that they have to make nails to build walls" and "If you don't hide from the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, your father-in-law will die first". Hiding from lanterns is one of the customs of the Lantern Festival. In the first year after a new bride gets married, her parents' home will hold a grand lantern-sending activity for her family, commonly known as "chasing lanterns".
The scale of the lantern chasing and the quality of the lanterns depend on the wealth of the people. Rich families would give a pair of glass palace lanterns as gifts. Some had nanmu frames with polished cement, some were inlaid with pearls, jade and gemstones, and some were just ordinary.
In addition to the pair of main lanterns, a small lantern is also added, commonly known as the "guiding lantern", which means to guide the newly married daughter-in-law to give birth to a son soon; after the husband's family receives the chasing lanterns, the bride will go to her parents' home with her family to "hide from the lantern" (usually go on the 14th day of the first lunar month and return on the 16th day).

The meaning of Lantern Festival:

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the Lantern Festival or the Lantern Festival, is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year and is one of China's traditional festivals.
The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the year. The ancients called "night" "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival".
According to the Taoist "Three Yuans", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival".
Since ancient times, the custom of the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the lively and festive custom of viewing lanterns.

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