What are the customs and etiquette of the Lunar New Year?
Out with the old and in with the new! The 2018 Lunar New Year is coming soon! What are the customs of the Lunar New Year? It is said that the Nian monster is afraid of the color red, fire, and explosions, and usually appears on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, on this day, people have activities and customs such as paying New Year's greetings, pasting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, pasting window flowers, setting off firecrackers, giving out red envelopes, wearing new clothes, eating dumplings, staying up late, performing lion and dragon dances, hanging lanterns, and kowtowing. You need to pay attention to some taboos during the Spring Festival. Next, go to the 2018 Spring Festival special topic specially compiled by the Fortune Teller website for you to learn more about it!What are the customs and considerations for the 2018 Lunar New Year?You cannot use a broom on the first day of the first lunar month, otherwise it will sweep away your luck and cause you to lose money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still preserve the custom of cleaning up before New Year's Eve, not using a broom or taking out the garbage on New Year's Day, and preparing a large bucket for waste water which is not poured out on that day.On the second day of the Lunar New Year, married daughters return to their parents' home and require their husbands to accompany them, so it is commonly known as "the day to welcome the son-in-law." On this day, the daughter who returns to her parents' home must bring some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to the children in her parents' home, and have lunch at her parents' home, but must return to her husband's home before dinner. In the past, families would also choose this day to take a family photo. The third day of the Lunar New Year is also known as the Red Dog Day, which has the same pronunciation as "Red Mouth". People usually do not go out to pay New Year's greetings. Legend has it that it is easy to have quarrels with others on this day. However, this custom has long been outdated, as people rarely get together during the Spring Festival nowadays, and this custom has become much less popular. The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to worship the God of Wealth. In the past, if a boss wanted to fire someone, he would not invite that person to worship the God of Wealth on that day. The other person would then know what was going on and would pack up and leave. There is also a legend that the Kitchen God will come to check the household registration on this day, so it is not advisable to travel far. The fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as Po Wu, and it is a day to "drive away the five poverty", including "poverty of wisdom, poverty of learning, poverty of literature, poverty of life, and poverty of social relations". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean the place. Set off firecrackers from inside to outside, while walking towards the door. It is said that all unlucky things will be blasted away. On this day, the common folk custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the villain's mouth". On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially open for business, and firecrackers are set off, just as loudly as on New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular person on this day is the boy who turns 12 that year, because 12 is twice 6, which is called "six sixes are lucky". On this day, every household has to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending away the ghost of poverty. The seventh day is Renri, which is human’s birthday. According to the "Zhanshu", starting from the first day, God created all things in the order of "one chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven humans, and eight grains", so the seventh day is Human Day. On this day, Hong Kong citizens like to eat Jiudi porridge. The so-called Jiudi means that they hope to become the top scorer in the imperial examination. The eighth day of the first lunar month is the Grain Day, which is said to be the birthday of grain. It is also called the Shunxing Festival. It is said to be the day when all the stars descend to the earth and the stars in the sky are the most complete. If the weather is clear on this day, it indicates a good rice harvest this year, but if the weather is cloudy, it means a poor harvest. The ninth day of the first lunar month is considered the birthday of the Jade Emperor according to folk custom, and a grand ceremony to worship the gods is held. Many believers in Hsinchu, Taiwan, go to the Tiangong Temple, which deifies the Jade Emperor and has a history of more than 200 years, to wish the Jade Emperor a happy birthday and pray for good weather, peace and health in the new year. The tenth day of the lunar month is the birthday of stone. On this day, all stone tools such as grinders and mills cannot be used, and people even have to offer sacrifices to the stones. In places like Yuncheng, Shandong, there is a saying about carrying a stone god. On the ninth night of the first lunar month, people freeze a clay jar on a smooth large stone. On the tenth morning, they tie a rope to the nose of the jar and have ten young men take turns carrying it. If the stone does not fall to the ground, it indicates a good harvest that year. The eleventh day of the first lunar month is "Son-in-law Day", the day when the father-in-law entertains his son-in-law. The food left over from the celebration of the "God of Heaven's Birthday" on the ninth day of the first lunar month is eaten on the tenth day, so the bride's family does not need to spend any more money and uses the leftover food to entertain the son-in-law and daughter. This is called "Inviting the Son-in-law on the Eleventh Day" in folk songs. After the eleventh day of the first lunar month, people begin to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival. From the twelfth day of the first lunar month, they start to buy lanterns and put up lantern sheds. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "On the eleventh day, people are chattering; on the twelve day, they are setting up the lantern shed; on the thirteenth day, they are lighting the lanterns; on the fourteenth day, the lanterns are at full brightness; on the fifteenth day, the moon is half full; on the sixteenth day, they are putting away the lanterns." The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. It is the first full-moon night of the year and also the night when spring comes back to life. |
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