Can I go to the temple to burn incense and worship on New Year’s Day in 2019? What are the customs and practices on New Year’s Day?

Can I go to the temple to burn incense and worship on New Year’s Day in 2019? What are the customs and practices on New Year’s Day?
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Can I go to the temple to burn incense and worship on New Year’s Day 2019?

2019 New Year's Day lunar calendar query:
November 26, 2018 (Lunar calendar)
January 1, 2019, Tuesday, Capricorn (solar calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings
, get married, migrate, seek a son, worship, enroll in school, get wealth, plant, and establish a contract
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Opening the market, traveling, seeking wealth, building a house, breaking ground, seeking medical treatment, taking up a post, setting up a bed, building a bed, opening a warehouse, breaking ground, burial
Based on the above contents of the lunar calendar, we can see that New Year’s Day 2019 is a suitable day to go to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings!
What should you pay attention to when going to the temple to pray on New Year's Day?
1. Clothing must be modest, never too revealing or strange, and it is not appropriate to wear slippers or a hat into a temple. These are basic respects for the gods.
2. Avoid loud noises. Although each temple worships different gods, they all hope to purify people's hearts, so your words and actions must be gentle.
3. Prepare 3-5 offerings such as seasonal fruits and biscuits, but they must be odd numbers (because odd numbers are yang numbers). You can also prepare incense, gold paper, etc., depending on the regulations of each temple.
Fruits suitable for worship: apples, peaches, plums, dates, grapefruits, pomeloes, oranges, etc.
Fruits that cannot be offered for worship: tomatoes, guavas, sugar apples, and durian.
What are the customs and traditions for New Year’s Day?
1. Setting off firecrackers: Chinese people set off firecrackers during many important festivals and events. In our hometown, New Year's Day is also called "Gregorian New Year". It’s time to set off firecrackers.
2. Eating dumplings: People in many areas of northern China like to eat dumplings during festivals. During such an important festival as the "Gregorian New Year", of course we also like to eat dumplings.
3. In Jiangsu, people put cooked water chestnuts in the rice and dig them out when eating, which is called "digging ingots". Put two green olives in the tea when making it and it becomes "Yuanbao tea".
4. In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, people tie grass together on long poles and burn them, while beating gongs and drums to celebrate the silkworms in the fields.
5. When Guangdong people visit relatives, they will give them tangerines, and the elders will also give them tangerines. It represents good luck and a symbol of surplus in the coming year.
6. In Fujian, people put flowers made of red paper on the rice when eating on New Year’s Day, which is called "Spring Rice". "Spring meal" also represents abundance every year.

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