China is a country of great culture and etiquette. The ancients paid more attention to the traditional festivals, especially the Spring Festival, so there are many precautions and taboos. Many taboo customs are still valued by people now, because in the new year, the purpose of abiding by these traditions is to keep peace and to make everything happy in the next year. What taboos should we pay attention to in the coming Spring Festival?
From the first day to the tenth day
First day of the year: on the day of the rooster, in the old days, because of the homophony between the rooster and the auspicious, they pasted a picture of the rooster on New Year's day to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings.
Second day: dog day, go out to pay homage to the new year or ancestor.
Junior Three: sheep day, easy to quarrel, not new year.
Fourth day: Pig day, sacrifice to the God of wealth.
Fifth day of the Lunar New Year: the fifth day of the ox, breaking the fifth day of the lunar new year, can break many taboos: the fifth day of sending the poor means that the garbage from the first day to the fourth day of the lunar new year can't be poured out, so there's no need to pour money, because the garbage from the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is regarded as the poor soil, and when it's poured out, it can be sent out to.
Sixth day of the Lunar New Year: Horse day, the day to send God, burned the God of wealth, the shop began to resume business.
Seventh day of the seventh day: People's day, people's birthday, is a dinner party to eat and drink, and there are fireworks, fireworks customs, is the birthday of fire.
Eighth day of the month: the valley day, the lower boundary of all the stars, so we should sacrifice the stars. Temples often set up altars to sacrifice the stars on this day.
Ninth day of the ninth lunar month: the birthday of the God and the Jade Emperor, and a grand heaven worship.
10th day of the Lunar New Year: all stone tools such as grinders, millstones and grinders should not be used. They can not move the stone, or even burn incense to worship it.
Taboos in daily life
Don't quarrel or scold children these days, or there will be a lawsuit in the family.
Avoid sweeping the floor or taking out rubbish, so as not to sweep away the wealth of the family. This taboo can be lifted only after the fifth day of the lunar new year.
Don't eat porridge, because porridge used to be the main food for poor people, so it's said that eating porridge in the new year will be mildewed, which means that the financial luck of the next year will be blocked.
Don't kill. If you kill at the beginning of the new year, you'll probably suffer a lot of blood.
It is forbidden to ask for debts or pay others, so as to keep money.
Don't take a nap. There is a saying: "men sleep in fields, while women sleep in kitchens.". Taking a nap is considered a symbol of laziness.
It is taboo to break things in the new year, because breaking things is a sign of breaking luck. In case of breaking things, you must use a piece of red paper or red cloth to wrap the pieces under the God's table, and recite "breaking (year-old) peace", and then take them away after the fifth day of the lunar new year.
Pay New Year's call to taboo
Since ancient times, China has been a land of rites and rituals, with many traditional customs, among which relatives are one of them. It's a very warm and lively thing to go back to my long missed home, exchange feelings with my relatives and partners, and talk about what happened outside this year.
But we also need to be taboo about the appropriate time to go relatives - we all live in our own home on the first day of the new year, when we wait for the second day of the new year, it's the day when our daughter and son-in-law go back to their parents' home, and on the third day of the new year, we start to go relatives, which can go all the way to the 15th day of the first month.