In which regions can daughters return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, and in which regions can't they return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival?

In which regions can daughters return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, and in which regions can't they return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival has many customs and etiquette. So in which regions can daughters return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, and in which regions can't they return to their parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival? Midsummer is the time when pomegranate flowers are bright in May and fruits can be seen on the branches. If you want to know more about the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo's website!

In which regions can daughters return to their parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Areas where you can go back to your hometown during the Dragon Boat Festival: Hubei
In Hubei region, there is a saying among the people that "Dragon Boat Festival is more important than New Year's Day, and girls return to their parents' homes."
Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival. Not only do people buy new clothes and shoes for their parents, but they also prepare a variety of Dragon Boat Festival delicacies.
An indispensable custom is to boil the duck eggs, peel them, and then cut them into different colors before returning to her parents' home.
Areas where you can go back to your hometown during the Dragon Boat Festival: Shaanxi
On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival in Shaanxi Province, people usually eat eggs, rice dumplings, fried cakes, and twisted dough sticks, and eat臊子面 at noon.
Before a married daughter returns to her parents' home before the Dragon Boat Festival, skillful women in each household will sew various purses with colorful cloth and silk. The gifts sent back by her parents' home usually include summer clothes, fans, straw hats, etc., but the indispensable one is the flowered bellyband embroidered with a toad to bless the health of the children. Areas where you can go back to your hometown during Dragon Boat Festival: Beijing
In Beijing, daughters who have become nuns must dress themselves up beautifully when they return to their parents' home.
When visiting relatives, they would tie colorful silk threads on their arms and wear red velvet flowers on their chests. The skillful daughters-in-law can also weave colorful rice dumplings. Some of the colorful rice dumplings contain Chinese herbal medicine, which has the meaning of blessing birthdays, preventing diseases, avoiding plagues and poisons, and hoping for good luck and beauty. They are given to parents to pray for blessings and longevity.
Areas where you can go back to your hometown during the Dragon Boat Festival: Anhui
In Anhui Province, in addition to preparing rice dumplings as festival gifts, people also give their parents chicken, fish, meat and wine.
Parents of primary school students in rural areas are required to give teachers gifts such as rice dumplings and duck eggs to show their respect for them.
When the son-in-law comes home for the holidays, the father-in-law will buy a straw hat and towel for his son-in-law, and a parasol for his daughter.
The daughter and son-in-law who return to her parents' home will watch the folk performance - Zhong Kui Dance - together with their family on the Dragon Boat Festival. The dance symbolizes the elimination of the five poisons, removing harm and bringing blessings, peace in all seasons, and longevity.
Areas where you can go back to your hometown during Dragon Boat Festival: Guangdong
People in Guangdong attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the old custom, people send gifts to the festival from the second to the fourth day of the fifth lunar month.
Generally, when returning to one's parents' home, one must use six or four "full boxes" filled with rice dumplings, pork, raw chicken, eggs, fruits, wine, etc. to congratulate the elders.
A new bride who has just gotten married must weave hanging bags and sachets with five-colored silk threads in advance and give them to her underage children at her parents' home. On the one hand, it reflects the new bride's virtue, and on the other hand, it reflects her craftsmanship, commonly known as "new bride's craftsmanship."

In what areas can’t people go back to their parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival?

In Shandong area, there is a saying that you cannot go back to your parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, and you are not allowed to see lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and you must "hide from lanterns."
Because there have been horrifying proverbs circulating among the people of Shandong such as "If you eat the Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings from your mother's home, the whole family will die without a single member left", and Shandong area has been deeply influenced by Confucius' thoughts, the elders' concepts are quite deep-rooted, and it is very difficult to change their views immediately.
If a female friend wants to go back to her parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, she will be advised not to do so. Everyone must try to communicate as much as possible with the husband's family and the wife's family, and do not force conflicts with family members, which will damage the harmony during the festival of reunion.

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