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You can't use a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and ruin your fortune. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still maintain a custom, sweeping before Chinese New Year's Eve, not leaving a broom on the first day of the new year, not taking out garbage, preparing a large bucket of wastewater, and not spilling it on the same day. In the New Year, you should not break the furniture, because breaking it is a sign of bankruptcy, and you must quickly say "New Year's (broken) years of peace" or "Fall to the ground and blossom, wealth and glory".
First two years of the year
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter returns to her parents' house and asks her husband to accompany her, so it is commonly known as "Son-in-law Day". On this day, the daughter who returns to her parents' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to give to her parents' children, and have lunch at her parents' house, but must rush back to her mother-in-law's house before dinner. In the past, families would also choose this day to take a family photo.
The first three of the new year
The third day of the Lunar New Year, also known as the Red Dog Day, has the same sound as "Chikou", and usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings, and legend has it that it is easy to have quarrels with people on this day. However, this custom has long been outdated, because it is now rare for people to reunite during the Spring Festival, and this has been diluted a lot.
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to worship the God of Wealth, in the past, the boss wanted to fire someone "squid", so he was not invited to worship God on this day, and the other party knew it and cleaned up and left. There is also a legend that the Lord of the Stove is going to check the household registration on this day, so it is not advisable to go far.
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year
The fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as breaking the five, and it is necessary to "drive out the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, learning poverty, literary poverty, life poverty, and payment poverty". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers, and clean up. Firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and you go out the door as you go. It is said that everything that is unlucky will be blasted out. On this day, the common food custom of the people is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the villain's mouth", on the day of the fifth day of the Tianjin people, every household eats dumplings, and the cutting board should be chopped to make a dingdong sound, so that the neighbors can hear, in order to show that the "villain" is chopping.
The sixth day of the Lunar New Year
On the sixth day of the new year, the shop restaurant officially opened for business, and firecrackers were set off, no less than the situation on Chinese New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular on this day are boys who turn 12 when they turn 12, because 12 is twice as much as 6, which is called 66 Shun. On this day, every household throws away the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called "sending the poor ghosts".
The first seven of the new year
The seventh day of the lunar month is the day of the people, that is, the birthday of the people. According to the Book of Occupation, from the beginning of the first month, the order in which God created all things was "one chicken and two dogs, three pigs and four sheep, five oxen and six horses, seven people and eight grains", so the seventh day of the first lunar month is the human day. On this day, Hong Kong citizens like to eat and the first porridge, the so-called and the first, is to hope that the scientific examination champion high school. Respect everyone on this day, not even the government can execute criminals on this day, and parents cannot teach their children on this day.
The first eight of the new year
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 lower realm of the stars, the sky stars are the most complete, if the weather is sunny on this day, it indicates that this year is a bumper harvest of rice, and the sky is cloudy and the year is sorry.
The first nine of the new year
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, the folk custom is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and a grand festival is held. Believers should worship the Jade Emperor, congratulate the Heavenly Lord on his birthday, and pray for good weather, peace and health in the new year.
The 10th day of the Lunar New Year
The tenth day of the first month is the birthday of the stone, and on this day, all stone tools such as grinding and grinding cannot be moved, and even the stone must be sacrificed. In Yuncheng, Shandong and other places, there is a saying that the stone god is lifted. On the ninth night of the first lunar month, people freeze a clay pot on a large smooth stone, and on the tenth morning of the first lunar month, the nose of the clay pot is tied with a rope, and ten young men take turns to carry it, and if the stone does not fall to the ground, it indicates a good harvest of the year.
Eleven
The 11th day of the first lunar month is the "Son-in-law's Day", which is the day when the father-in-law feasts on his son-in-law. In addition to eating a day on the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, there is still a lot of leftover food left over from the celebration of the "Tiangong's birthday" on the ninth day of the lunar month, so the mother's family does not have to break the bank, and uses these leftover delicacies to entertain the son-in-law and daughter, and the folk song is called "11th Please Son-in-law".
Twelve to fifteen
After the 11th day of the first lunar month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, starting from the 12th day of the first lunar month, they began to buy lanterns and build lantern sheds. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "Eleven chirp, twelve build a lantern tent, thirteen turn on the lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen and a half moons, sixteen 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 it is also the night of the earth's rejuvenation, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival". The custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and it was indispensable to eat Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls on this day.
The sixteenth night of the first lunar month is a children's festival, all the children take out their lanterns and hit others, and then laugh and watch other people's lanterns catch fire, this is called "touching the lantern". This year's lanterns cannot be kept for next year, and must be destroyed by "touching the lanterns".
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