What are the taboos in the first month of the lunar calendar?

What are the taboos in the first month of the lunar calendar?
The Lunar New Year is approaching, and the festive atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger. This first month of the year, full of festive atmosphere, is the first month of the year. There are some taboos in the first month of the lunar year that everyone needs to remember! So if you want to know more about the 2018 Spring Festival, then continue to wander in the 2018 Spring Festival special topic on the Fortune Teller website! (1) Avoid breaking objects. Breaking objects at ordinary times is a taboo, and breaking objects during the New Year is an even worse omen. In the old days, it was believed that breaking objects in the first month of the lunar year would bring bad luck in the new year. Therefore, when something is broken, people would quickly say “May you have peace in the new year” or “The more you break, the more prosperous you will be”, “The old doesn’t go away, the new doesn’t come”, etc. to ward off evil.
(2) Avoid funerals. In some places, funerals are not allowed in the first month of the lunar year. If you encounter this, it is considered unlucky, indicating that disaster will befall you within the year.
However, in some places, funerals are considered auspicious because "coffin" (coffin) and "official" (official) are homophones, and "material" (material) and "wealth" (wealth) are homophones, so it is a good omen to ask for, which means promotion to a higher position or getting rich.
(3) The bereaved family should avoid paying New Year’s greetings. When there is a funeral in the family, all New Year activities must be cancelled during the three-year mourning period. The most taboo thing is to visit other families to wish a happy new year. Others also try not to visit a funeral home during the first month of the year. If they have to visit, they do not go into the house but stand outside the door and talk.
(4) Avoid quarreling or swearing during the first month of the lunar year. In the old days, people believed that quarreling in the first month of the lunar year would ruin the whole year, and swearing would bring disaster.
(5) Avoid visiting a doctor : In the old days, people would avoid visiting a doctor in the first month of the lunar calendar, as it was believed that this was a sign of illness that would occur throughout the year.
(6) Avoid staying at one’s parents’ home. In the old days, a new bride was not allowed to spend the night at her parents’ home during the first month of the lunar year. When you go back to your parents' home, you must rush back to your husband's home at night. As the saying goes: "Don't leave your room empty in the first month of the year." The ban will not be lifted until February 2 (the birthday of the God of Land).
(7) Avoid moving or pasting paper on windows and lattices. Avoid moving or pasting paper on windows and lattices in the first month of the year, as it is considered unlucky.
(8) Avoid replacing or washing clothes and quilts . It is said that clothes and quilts should be replaced or washed in the first month of the lunar year. Washing clothes and quilts is unlucky.
(9) Avoid shaving your head: In the old days, people were not allowed to shave their heads in the first month of the lunar calendar. It is said that shaving one's head will hurt one's uncle. According to old local chronicles, the Qing Dynasty issued an edict to shave the hair, which was implemented in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, and the Ming Dynasty system was changed. The people shaved their heads to think of their old kings, so it was called "thinking of the past." It has been passed down for a long time and was mistakenly written as "dead uncle".

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