Is New Year’s Day a good time to travel far? What do you eat on Chinese New Year’s Day?

Is New Year’s Day a good time to travel far? What do you eat on Chinese New Year’s Day?
Different days have different aura and feng shui, so the do’s and don’ts of each day will also be different. That’s why there is a saying that we should choose auspicious days to do things. So is New Year’s Day suitable for traveling far away? Winter months are cold, but when everything goes well, they are the warmest days. The Fortune Teller website gives you the lunar calendar for November so that you can have an idea of ​​what to do.

Is New Year’s Day a good time to travel far?

Lunar calendar November 15, 2017 Gregorian calendar January 1, 2018 Monday [Today's Good News]
Getting married, setting up the bed, making the stove, offering sacrifices, accepting marriage proposals, taking up a post, seeking heirs, lifting construction, breaking ground, erecting pillars and beams, planting meridians, building houses, holding funerals, digging wells, catching fish [taboos today]
Fasting and praying for blessings, opening the market, setting up securities, collecting money, shipping, burial, moving coffins, breaking ground, burial, collecting livestock, moving to new homes, installing incense, traveling, separation, opening warehouses, six-star victory, twelve gods, holding positions, gods of the day, Xuanwu (black road day)
This month's fetal god: The stove. Today's fetal god: The bed in the room. North.
In the lunar calendar, [travel] is included in [taboos for today], so this day should not be suitable for traveling. If you go out for travel, you must always be vigilant about your own safety.

What do you eat on Chinese New Year’s Day?

Soup cake <br /> Soup cake refers to the food made by boiling wheat flour in water in ancient times. In the ninth volume of "Qimin Yaoshu" by Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty, "Shuiyin tangtuan" is mentioned. The method of making "Shuiyin" is as follows: "Put a piece of dough as big as a chopstick into pieces one foot long. Put water in a plate and put it on the pan. Put it on the plate with your hands and make it as thin as leek leaves and cook it while it is boiling."
Dumplings <br /> Eating dumplings on New Year's Day was popular in the north during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when it was already praised as "a way to wish longevity to the elders." As described in "Zhengzitong", dumplings in the Ming Dynasty were called dumplings, powder corners, water dumplings, and steamed dumplings. In addition, there are other names such as "water dim sum". In the Qing Dynasty, the Beijing bannermen also called dumplings "boiled buns".
Rice cake <br /> Also known as sticky cake, it means getting taller every year. In the south it is made from glutinous rice, in the north it is made from sticky millet. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the south. Volume 2 of "A Brief Account of Scenery in the Imperial Capital" from the late Ming Dynasty records that on the first day of the first lunar month, "people wake up early, wash their hands, eat date cakes, and rice cakes." In the south, local chronicles of Suzhou, Jiading and other places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang call it "jiegao".

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