Ten Feng Shui taboos for celebrating the Lantern Festival

Ten Feng Shui taboos for celebrating the Lantern Festival
Introduction: Different festivals have different taboos. The Lantern Festival is coming. Knowing some Feng Shui taboos of the Lantern Festival will be helpful for bringing good luck and fortune during the Lantern Festival. Next, the editor will introduce to you the top ten Feng Shui taboos of the Lantern Festival. Let’s learn about it together! The first month of the lunar calendar is an important month. Let us pay attention to the traditional festivals and solar terms in the first month and have a good start of the month.

What are the do's and don'ts of the Lantern Festival?

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hold lantern festivals, enjoy lanterns, eat Yuanxiao (Chinese rice dumplings), perform social activities, and play with dragon lanterns. In some cities and counties, there is a custom that new brides should avoid looking at the lights at their parents' home, saying: "If you look at the lights at your parents' home, your father-in-law will die." However, in some places, a new bride must live with her parents' home on the day of her wedding, which is called "hiding from the lights." It is also taboo to have wind, snow, rain or fog on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. If this is the case, it means the year will be bad. As the saying goes, "When there are lights on the Lantern Festival, people and animals are healthy; when there is wind and snow, people get sick and cows die." Suitable for: getting married, coming of age, accepting marriage proposals, traveling, meeting relatives and friends, raising beams, installing machinery, installing beds, animal husbandry, hunting, offering sacrifices, praying, consecrating, repairing and installing doors. Taboo: moving into a new house, building a stove, treating illness, burying people, and migrating. This year's almanac records many auspicious events, and most of them are happy events or things that need to be prepared, which foreshadow a good harvest and joy for the year. What we should avoid are big moves and unlucky things, so we should try to avoid them.

Ten Feng Shui Taboos for the Lantern Festival on the 15th Day of the First Lunar Month

1. Avoid eating tofu on the 15th day of the first lunar month, as it is commonly eaten during funerals. To avoid bad luck, avoid eating it. 2. It is taboo for a new bride to look at the lanterns in her parents' home. On the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, people hold lantern festivals and watch the lanterns. In Hebei, Henan and Shandong areas, it is a common custom for a new bride to avoid looking at the lanterns in her parents' home. As the saying goes, "If you look at the lanterns in your parents' home, your father-in-law will die." 3. It is important to burn incense and worship Buddha on the Lantern Festival, but women who are menstruating should avoid it. 4. This year's Lantern Festival is in conflict with the dog, so friends who are born in the year of the dog must be careful, avoid quarreling, sweeping the house, taking a bath or washing their hair. 5. Avoid washing or drying clothes on the Lantern Festival. 6. Hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities are prohibited from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the Lantern Festival is no exception. 7. Avoid any large-scale earth-moving or construction activities on this day, otherwise some unlucky things may happen. 8. Don’t lend money to others on the Lantern Festival. It is said that doing so will take away your wealth for the year. 9. Carry less cash on the Lantern Festival to avoid losing your property, otherwise you will have bad luck in the new year and miss opportunities. 10. It is not advisable to kill animals on the Lantern Festival, otherwise there may be bloody disasters and other ominous signs in the year.
Summary: The above article is a detailed analysis of the top ten Feng Shui taboos of the Lantern Festival. You can refer to it and hope it can help you!

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