The taboo encyclopedia from the first to the fifteenth day of the New Year, handed down by the elders, must know!
Spring Festival in Chinese tradition generally refers to Chinese New Year's Eve to fifteen. So what are the customs from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the Spring Festival? The Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the wax festival from the eighth day of the first lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the waxing moon to the fifteenth day of the first month, of which the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month are the climax.
During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese on the mainland and many ethnic minorities hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly based on the worship of gods and immortals, the worship of ancestors, the removal of the old cloth and the new cloth, the celebration of the jubilee and the blessing of the blessing, and the prayer for a good year. The activities are colorful and have strong national characteristics.
The first day of the first lunar month
You can't use a broom on the first day of the first lunar month, otherwise it will sweep away your luck and ruin your money. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still have a custom of sweeping up before Chinese New Year's Eve, not going out of the broom at the beginning of the year, not taking out garbage, preparing a large bucket of wastewater, and not spilling it on the day. In the New Year, you can't break furniture, breaking it is a harbinger of bankruptcy, you have to quickly say "years (broken) years of peace" or "land blossoms, rich and glorious".
The Spring Festival is commonly known as "New Year's Day", formerly known as "New Year's Day", Sui Dynasty Du Taiqing said in the "Five Candles Treasure Book": "The first month is the duanyue, and its day is the first day, yiyun zhengchao, yiyun yuanshuo." "Yuan" originally means "head", and later extended to "beginning", because this day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called "three yuan"; because this day is still the dynasty of the year, the dynasty of the moon, the dynasty of the day, so it is also called "three dynasties"; and because it is the first New Day, it is also called "Yuan Shuo". The first day of the first lunar month also has other names such as shangri, zhengchao, sanshuo, and sanshi, which means that the first day of the first month of the first month is the beginning of the year, month, and day.
The first day of the first lunar month pays attention to the opening of the door: on the morning of the Spring Festival, the door is opened and firecrackers are released first, which is called "opening the door cannon battle". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground is full of broken red, and it is as bright as clouds, called "full of red". At this time, the streets were full of excitement and joy. New Year's Greetings, the first day of the New Year, it is essential to go to the homes of relatives and friends to say New Year's greetings or call to greet, say "Happy New Year", and wish everyone good luck throughout the year.
New Year's First Two
On the second day of the New Year, the married daughter returns to her mother's house and asks her husband to accompany her, so it is commonly known as "Greeting the Son-in-Law Day". On this day, the daughter who returns to her mother's house must carry some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to her mother's children, and have lunch at her mother's house, but she must rush back to her in-laws' house before dinner. In the past, families would also choose this day to take a family portrait.
New Year's Day First 3
The third day of the Chinese New Year, also known as the Red Dog Day, is homophonous with "Red Mouth", usually does not go out to worship the New Year, and it is said that it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been outdated, because people now rarely reunite during the Spring Festival, which has been much downplayed.
The fourth day of the first lunar month
The fourth day of the Chinese New Year is the day of the god of wealth, in the past, the boss wanted to "fire someone", this day did not invite him to worship the god, the other party also knew it, and cleaned up the people by themselves. There is also a legend that the king of the stove will come to check the household registration on this day, so it is not appropriate to go far.
New Year's First Five
The fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as breaking the fifth, and it is necessary to "catch up with the five povertys", including "intellectual poverty, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, and poor friends". People rose at dawn, set off firecrackers, and cleaned up. Firecrackers are placed from the inside out, and as they are released, they go outside the door. It is said that everything that is unlucky will be bombed out. On this day, the popular folk food custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the mouth of the little man", Tianjin people break the fifth day, every household eats dumplings, and the cutting board should be chopped up, so that the neighbors can hear it, to show that they are chopping "little people".
The sixth day of the first lunar month
On the sixth day of the New Year, shops and restaurants officially opened for business, and firecrackers were to be set off, no less than the situation of Chinese New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular boy on this day is the boy who turned 12 that year, because 12 is twice as much as 6, which is called six six big shun. On this day, every household has to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending poor ghosts.
New Year's First Seven
The seventh day of the first year is the day of the person, that is, the birthday of the person. According to the Book of Zhan, from the beginning of the first month, the order in which heaven created all things was "one chicken and two dogs, three pigs and four sheep, five cattle and six horses, seven people and eight grains", so the seventh day of the first month is the day of man. On this day, Hong Kong citizens like to eat and the first porridge, the so-called and the first, is the hope of the scientific examination of the champion high school. Even the government cannot execute criminals on this day, and parents cannot teach their children a lesson on this day.
The eighth day of the first lunar month
The eighth day of the first month is the day of the valley, the legend is the birthday of the millet, also called the Shunxing Festival, the legend is the day of the nether realm of the stars, the sky is the most complete, if the weather is sunny on this day, it indicates that the rice harvest of this year is good, and the day is cloudy and the year is apologetic.
The ninth day of the first lunar month
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, folk customs are the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and a grand celestial sacrifice is held. The faithful wanted the Lord to worship the Jade Emperor, wish the Heavenly Father a happy birthday, and pray for a smooth wind and rain, peace and health in the new year.
New Year's Day 10
On this day, all stone tools such as grinding and milling cannot be moved, and even the stones must be sacrificed. In Yuncheng, Shandong and other places, there is a saying that the god of lifting stones. On the night of the ninth day of the first month, a crock pot was frozen on a large smooth stone, and on the morning of the tenth day, the nose of the crock pot was tied with a rope, and ten young men took turns carrying it, and if the stone did not fall to the ground, it heralded the harvest of that year.
New Year's Day 11
The eleventh day of the first lunar month is "Son-in-law's Day", which is the day when the father-in-law feasts on the son-in-law. In addition to eating one day on the tenth day of the first month, there is still a lot left, so the mother's family does not have to spend any more money, so it uses these remaining delicacies to entertain the son-in-law and daughter, and the folk song is called "Eleven Please Son-in-Law".
Twelve to fifteen
After the eleventh day of the first month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, starting from the twelfth day of the first month to buy lanterns and build a lamp shed. The nursery rhyme is sung like this: "Eleven shouts, twelve light sheds, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen and a half, sixteen people finish the lights." The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Lantern Festival", which is the first full moon night of the year and the night of the rejuvenation of the earth.
The fifteenth yen festival of the first month is also the Christmas of the Taoist Emperor Yuan Tianguan, the day of blessing for the Heavenly Officials, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival".
The custom of lantern burning has been since the Han Dynasty, and it is indispensable to eat Lantern and Tangyuan on this day. The sixteenth night of the first month is a children's festival, all the children take out their own lanterns and bump into others, and then laugh and watch other people's lanterns catch fire, this is called "touching the lamp". The emphasis is that this year's lanterns cannot be kept until next year, and must be destroyed in the form of "touching the lights".
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