Is New Year’s Eve 2018 a good day? What are the customs for New Year’s Eve?
New Year’s Eve is the last day of the Chinese year and has an important impact on people. So is New Year’s Eve 2018 a good day? What are the customs on New Year’s Eve? Time has unknowingly come to the end of the year. Fortune Teller.com has prepared some information about the 2018 Chinese New Year's Eve. Click in to learn more!Is New Year’s Eve 2018 a good day?December 30, 2017 (Lunar calendar)February 15, 2018, Thursday, Aquarius (Gregorian calendar) 【Today’s Recommendation】 Getting married, traveling, migrating, taking up a post, repairing graves, moving into new homes, recruiting sons-in-law, building houses, opening businesses, offering sacrifices, receiving wealth, planting crops, receiving livestock, getting married, attending school, seeking a partner [taboos today] Construction, groundbreaking, opening warehouse, accepting marriage proposals, praying for offspring, purchasing property, shipping, laying beams and erecting pillars, breaking ground, burial, drilling, and sailing. Auspicious gods to follow: Sui De, Bu Shou Zhong, Fu Xing, Ji Qi, Ji Fen, Jin Kui, Shi De, Tian Cai, Xiang Ri, Yu Yu. Evil spirits to avoid: Di Ze, Wu Xu, Yue Jian. God of Wealth: Southeast. God of Fortune: Due North. God of Wealth: Due North. What are the customs for New Year’s Eve?No water drawing on New Year's Eve <br /> There is a taboo of "no water drawing" during the Chinese New Year. Families with wells must "seal the well" before dusk on New Year's Eve, put a wooden cover on the well, offer cakes and burn incense to worship, and then open the cover and reuse it three days later.Ancestor worship on New Year's Eve <br /> Ancestor worship is the first major event on New Year's Eve. In many places in our country, on this day, people will set up sumptuous meals at home, light incense and candles, and the head of the family will lead their children and grandchildren to kowtow. In some rural areas in the north, people still burn paper money at home. In the evening of New Year's Eve, the whole family lights incense and candles, pours fine wine, and places dishes in front of the ancestral portraits, and holds a grand sacrificial ceremony to express the sentiment of "respecting the dead and remembering the ancestors." People start to enjoy their meal only after their ancestors have finished their New Year’s Eve dinner. Giving out lucky money on New Year’s Eve <br /> The ancients were very particular about lucky money. The copper coins used should be large and new, and then strung into various shapes with red ropes. Some people wear hundreds of copper coins on their belts, meaning "long life"; others wear auspicious shapes such as carp, ruyi, dragon, etc., meaning "money dragon" or "surplus money" in the hope of bringing good luck. In addition to the elders giving children "lucky money", some areas also have the custom of giving "lucky fruit". On New Year’s Eve, the elders will put oranges, lychees and other fruits next to children’s pillows, with the meaning of “auspiciousness” to wish the children good luck in the coming year. With the development of the times, today's "lucky money" is more direct and pure. It is usually packed with red bills in exquisite red envelopes and then distributed to children to wish for a prosperous and good start. New Year's Eve Stepping on the Year of the Year activity <br /> On New Year's Eve, the Chinese people also hold a stepping on the year of the year activity, that is, sticking sesame stalks with gold ingots rolled with yellow paper in the courtyard, and putting them into a bundle, which is called a "treasure bowl". Then, the whole family crushes it with their feet, using the Chinese character for broken (broken) to rhyme with the Chinese character for year (old), and borrowing the auspicious meaning of sesame seeds blooming higher and higher, to wish the family prosperity and express their blessings and hopes for the new year. Staying up all night on New Year's Eve<br /> Staying up all night on New Year's Eve is also a long-standing custom. As early as the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a clear record in the "Fengtu Ji": "Staying up all night to wait for the dawn is called staying up all night." Legend has it that staying up all night is to prevent the invasion of a unicorn, which is most afraid of fire, red and noise. Therefore, people wear red clothes, light red lanterns, paste red paper, set off fireworks and firecrackers, burn incense and pray, and stay up all night, thus giving rise to the custom of "staying up all night". The "Records of the Imperial Capital's Sui Shi Sheng" records: "Lighting silver candles, drinking pine wine, sitting until dawn, it is called Shou Sui, and it is a sign of longevity." In many places, New Year's Eve is also called "Auspicious Night". On this night, adults and children alike must say auspicious words and are not allowed to say unlucky words, dirty words or disrespectful words, otherwise they will have bad luck for the whole year. Therefore, joy, harmony and reunion are the biggest themes of New Year's Eve. |
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