Chinese folk taboos and customs during the Spring Festival, customs from the first to the tenth day of the first lunar month
Dong Dong Qiang... Dong Dong Qiang... It's Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival has arrived. As the most traditional and important festival for Chinese people, each of us looks forward to and pays attention to it. So, regarding the Chinese New Year, you must follow the various customs and taboos in the first month of the Spring Festival, and pray for a good start in the coming year. Mr. Bu Yifan has listed various taboos and customs of the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is also an important traditional festival of ours. Please take a look at it carefully, it will definitely be of great inspiration and help to you in your life and work!First day of the first lunar monthOn the morning of the first day of the New Year, the family gets up, washes, puts on new clothes, and pays New Year's greetings to their parents and elders, who will then give them red envelopes. After breakfast (usually noodles are eaten with eggs, the purpose of eating eggs is to remove mold and welcome good luck, and noodles symbolize longevity and good fortune). Go out and visit relatives and friends from house to house. If there are guests, you should offer them sweet candies, candied fruits, or sweet tea, modern coffee, etc., to make the guests feel sweet, which means a sweet and beautiful start to the new year.Don’t forget, you don’t sweep the floor or take out the trash on the first day of the New Year. Afraid of sweeping away the wealth. In the old days, Xiamen called this day "Knife and Anvil Day". People would not use kitchen knives, kill animals, do farm work or wash clothes. The second day of the first lunar monthThe second day of the Chinese New Year is "Son-in-law Day". All married daughters must go back to their parents' home to visit relatives with their son-in-law, who is known as "half-son", and their children. There is a saying: "If a daughter-in-law has both parents on the second and third days of the New Year, while if she has neither father nor mother, she will carry burdens." It means that if a daughter-in-law's parents are still alive, someone will come to pick her up on the second and third days of the New Year to "visit". If a daughter-in-law has no parents, she will have to continue to stay in her husband's family and do housework, helping relatives and friends who come home to visit.When a son-in-law visits his parents-in-law to wish them a happy new year, he must bring rich new year goods such as chicken, pork trotters, rice noodles, pork tripe, cakes, etc., and then happily have a reunion dinner at his father-in-law and mother-in-law's home. The third day of the first lunar monthOn the third day of the Chinese New Year, everyone usually goes to bed very late. It is said that in the past, memorial ceremonies were held on the third day of the Lunar New Year for relatives who had passed away less than one year ago, and people did not like to receive New Year greetings on this day. Perhaps it is because we have been busy and happy from New Year's Eve to the second day of the New Year and are a little tired. There is no visit to each other on the third day of the New Year, so we can have a good rest. Therefore, there is a saying in southern Fujian: "Get up early on the first day, get up early on the second day, and sleep well on the third day."There is another saying: The third day of the Lunar New Year is also called 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 first lunar monthThis day is the "God-welcoming Day", also known as the "God-receiving Day". It is said that on the 24th day of the 12th lunar month, every household sends the gods to heaven to let these gods celebrate the Spring Festival in heaven and report to the Jade Emperor all the good and evil things that have happened in the world in the past year.In the past, if a boss wanted to fire someone, he would not invite that person to worship the gods on this 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 monthAfter the festival, people start to get busy, shops open, farmers go to the fields, so there is a saying in southern Fujian: "The fifth day is for getting ready (after the festival, get ready to work), the sixth day is for storing fertilizer (storing fertilizer for spring ploughing)."In other areas, the fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as Po Wu, and the purpose is 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 custom among the people is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the villain's mouth". On this day, every household in Tianjin eats dumplings, and the chopping board must make a clanging sound so that the neighbors can hear it, to show that they are chopping the "villain". The sixth day of the first lunar monthShops 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 of the first lunar monthThis day is everyone’s birthday, commonly known as “Everyone’s Birthday”, also called “People’s Day Festival”, “People’s Victory Festival”, “People’s Celebration Festival”, etc. According to the "Zhanshu", starting from the first day of the new year, God created all things in the order of "one chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people, and eight grains". Legend has it that Nuwa created human beings on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. In Jinjiang, there is also a unique way of eating it: early in the morning, the housewife gets up to cook a pot of rice noodles for the whole family, adding meatballs, fried spareribs, dried shrimps, etc., and also a few pieces of sweet fried rice cakes. This kind of food is made of salty noodles with sweet fried rice cakes. The housewife also has to prepare some chicken and duck eggs, two for each person.People like to eat Jidi porridge. The so-called Jidi means the hope of becoming the top scorer in the imperial examination. Everyone should be respected on Human Day. Even the government cannot execute criminals on this day, and parents cannot teach their children on this day. The eighth day of the first lunar monthThe 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"Tian Gong Sheng" (birthday of the Jade Emperor), the ancients believed that the sky was the greatest, and "Tian Gong" or the Jade Emperor dominated everything, so respecting "Tian Gong" was the most sacred event. On this day, people usually get up early and hang lanterns, which is called "lighting the Tiangong lanterns". They also put an eight-immortal table in the living room and a tall "Tiangong seat" made of paper at the back of the table. The table is placed with "three animals" (big pig head, big pig feet, chicken or fish, etc.) and other foods and fruits.The tenth day of the first lunar monthThe 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 beautiful Spring Festival requires us to spend this wonderful time with the happiest mood of the year. If we spend a wonderful Spring Festival according to the lunar calendar, we will surely have good luck in the coming year. Mr. Shuimo wishes you all a happy Spring Festival, happiness to your family, all the best and continuous good luck. |
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