No. 1: no meat
There are many taboos during the ancient Chinese New Year, but with the development of The Times, many taboos have been broken. In summary, during the Chinese New Year, the clothing is new, the diet is generally sweet, the language not to see the coarse language, the behavior is cautious.
For example, the first day of the great New Year was thought to be the birthday of maitreya, which could not be eaten by meat or drink, but such taboos have been largely broken down. Another theory is that the first day is the birthday of the dragon king. The most interesting theory is that the first day is the day when the mouse married her daughter, and everyone must go to bed earlier that day, or the mouse will not marry her daughter, and the mouse will suffer from the rat. Yangzhou tube first sleeping called "yuan bao sleep", the previous day is often punctual, also should sleep.
On the first morning, they usually ate soup, silver, and lotus soup. The meal was not cooked by women. It was also a consolation for women's hard work in a year. On the first day, fell a somersault, say "to pick up the yuan treasure".
This is a girl's day. Visit your uncle's home first
On the second day of the first lunar month, the date of the "girls' day" is the day when son-in-law comes to the door, and the daughter who is married must go back to her parents' home with her husband and get together with her parents.
From the beginning of the second year, it's time to visit the elders. The first one to worship was the uncle's house, because in the area of gao, uncle's position was very high. My uncle is to sit on the mat when the children of the evening are married. When he finished his uncle's family, he would go to his uncle's and uncle's, and then to his aunt's house and his aunt's house.
No. 3: send flight post and door book
There are so many people visiting during the Spring Festival that sometimes it is too late to visit them. From the beginning of the third, you should send up the post, like a business card, instead of a New Year. Once a large family of people pay attention to the face, will set a door book at the door, specially register to post the person. In the first page of the book, it's not the real name, but some imaginary characters, such as "longevity" and home "centenarian".
In addition, the first three days of the first two, do not move the broom, otherwise the luck will be swept away. If you must sweep the floor, you must also sweep from the outside to the inside.
No. 4: business people eat "mammon"
On the first four nights, the business owner would like to ask the cashier, the waiter, to eat the "god of wealth".
In the room, there are several kinds of money: plates, cakes and preserves, etc.; It is more exquisite, with pig's head, carp, etc. God provided, put some copper money and so on.
The first five: welcome the god of wealth
The first five is the day to welcome the god of wealth. Eating dumplings in the morning is called "eating yuan bao"; The dishes at noon should be more abundant for the worship of the god of wealth. Closing the door in the evening is called the gate of the gate.
After the first five days, there are many customs. For example, if someone in the family is ill, they will burn the temple incense and pray for peace. After baiting the temple of the great king, the woman will go to the gate of the city of dongguan, yangzhou, to touch the "reding nails" of the city gate, which means "to touch the stud," to give birth to a boy. In the same way, there is also the boat pile, the bull pile and so on, wrapped in red paper, and sent by children to families without boys.
