Can I spend New Year’s Eve at someone else’s house? What are the taboos and etiquette on New Year’s Eve?

Can I spend New Year’s Eve at someone else’s house? What are the taboos and etiquette on New Year’s Eve?
Little New Year is a festival in the twelfth lunar month for house-sweeping and kitchen god worship. Want to know more about New Year’s Eve? After the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, it is the new year, so we must make full preparations before the new year arrives. Click on Mr. Shui Mo's website to learn more about the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2021.

Can I spend New Year’s Eve at someone else’s house?

It is possible to celebrate the Little New Year's Eve at someone else's home, but married women should not return to their parents' home on the Little New Year's Eve.
After all, although the Little New Year is a traditional festival, it does not fall into the category of legal holidays in our country, so not everyone can go home on this day.
If you can go back home or have your own place to live, it is best to stay at home on the day of Little New Year, clean up and welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival.

What are the taboos and etiquette on New Year’s Eve?

1. It is taboo to kill living things on the Little New Year, as it is unlucky.
2. It is taboo to pound garlic during the Little New Year. In some areas, it is believed that pounding garlic will make the family poor.
3. It is taboo to collect debts on the Little New Year. It is believed that those who collect debts on the Little New Year will be on the way to collect debts every day in the following year.
4. It is taboo to give steamed buns to others during the Little New Year, because steamed buns are used for worshiping the kitchen god and ancestors during the Little New Year, so it is unlucky to give them as a gift.
5. Don’t buy on credit during the Little New Year. Don’t sell on credit to others. People believe that buying on credit during the Little New Year means owing for one day is like owing for a year.
6. It is taboo to borrow things on the Little New Year, and you cannot lend anything to others, because the Little New Year is as important as the first day of the Lunar New Year. Both borrowing and being borrowed have bad connotations.
7. It is forbidden for women to participate in the Kitchen God worship activities during the Minor New Year. As the saying goes, "Men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the Kitchen God", which means that men cannot participate in the moon worship during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and women cannot participate in the Kitchen God worship during the Minor New Year.
8. It is taboo to pound rice on the day of the Little New Year. In the south, the day of the Little New Year is called "sending off the gods". On this day, the God of Wind will ascend to heaven. If you pound rice, there is a risk of knocking the God of Wind down, causing more wind disasters in the coming year.
9. It is taboo to go back to your parents' home on the Little New Year. People in some areas believe that the Little New Year is as important as the Spring Festival, so married daughters should stay in the father-in-law's home. If they go back to their parents' home, it will be bad for both their parents-in-law and their families.

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