Taboos for Chinese New Year in South China
1, the married daughter can't go back to her family.
On New Year's Day, the married daughter can't go back to her family. The saying in the countryside is that when she goes back to her mother's house, she will be poor, so her daughter can only go home on the second or third day of the year.
2. Avoid calling other people's names to remind them to get up and pay a New Year call.
On the morning of New Year's Day, it is forbidden to wake others up, which means that people who are urged will be urged to do things for a whole year. Don't pay New Year's greetings while others are still sleeping. On the one hand, it will make the other person ill for a year and spend it in bed, so it is basically recommended that you pay a New Year call around 10.
The custom of Chinese New Year in South China
1, the custom of Chinese New Year is cleaning.
"On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to Lv Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.
2. The custom of Chinese New Year is to paste the door.
During the Spring Festival, there is a custom of putting up doors all over China. At first, the janitor carved mahogany into a human shape and hung it next to people. Later, it was painted as a janitor and posted on the door. The legendary brothers Shen Tu and Lei Yu specialize in ghosts. They guard the portal, and evil spirits dare not enter the portal to harm. After the Tang Dynasty, two brave soldiers, Qin Qiong and Wei Chijingde, were painted as gatekeepers, while Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were painted as gatekeepers. Every household has a door god, and later generations often draw a pair of door gods as martial arts. Door gods are divided into three categories: the first category is "door gods", which are mostly attached to doors or the whole door, about four or five feet high and two or three feet wide. The second kind is the "door keeper", which is attached to the small street door, about two feet high and one foot wide. These two door gods are two gods with a black face and a white face.
The custom of Chinese New Year is to paste Spring Festival couplets.
Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door-to-door" and "spring post", are a kind of couplets, named after being posted during the Spring Festival. One source of Spring Festival couplets is Fu Tao. At first, people carved figures out of mahogany and hung them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Later, they painted the door god on the mahogany, simplified it and wrote the door god's name on the mahogany board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers.
What are the feng shui taboos in the Spring Festival cleaning?
In the past Laba, every household began to clean up, which meant to clean up the bad luck and filth of the old year and usher in a new and beautiful home scene. However, do you know what other taboos are there for cleaning? If you don't look carefully, you will sweep away feng shui and luck!
First, buying new furniture for the Spring Festival is not suitable for making triangles.
Strange shapes of diamonds, squares or circles. Chinese civilization likes square and round.
Second, my family likes to put flowers in the Spring Festival.
Such as peach blossoms and plum blossoms, can be placed next to the gate to show spring; Choosing camellia and Clivia can be placed in the room, so that the family can live in harmony; Rich bamboo and trees can be placed in the living room, symbolizing a civilized and wealthy family.
Third, it is not suitable for large-scale construction during the Spring Festival.
If you don't know the location of your home, try to avoid breaking through the wall to avoid bad luck when the location moves. If you want to decorate your home, you must tidy up your house one week before the festival, especially if there are animals (chickens, rabbits, dogs, mice) at home, you need to be more careful!
Fourth, the beds in the room should not be greatly adjusted.
The master room is a metaphor for his wife's star position, and it is unlucky to change positions during the New Year. Kitchen, bathroom, etc. You can exchange it for an old one.
Five, the door should not be replaced.
Doors play an important role in geomantic omen, and they are in charge of the quality of receiving gas. If during the cleaning period, Huang Wu, Erhei disease and other fierce stars fly by and happen to move or change the gate, it will be a big taboo or cause a series of evil things. Therefore, the gate can be cleaned and cannot be replaced.
Sixth, don't add a porch at will.
During the year-end cleaning, people always have a whim and like to add something in some places. For example, some people like to put a porch at the door. Improper handling will bring many obstacles and damages to the luck of the new year.
Seven, the kitchen should not hang a mirror.
One of the taboos of hanging mirrors in the kitchen is that mirrors can't shine on the fire. If you hang the mirror on the wall behind the stove and shine it on the food in the pot, it will do more harm and bring fire or misfortune to the house.
Eight, the refrigerator rice jar is empty.
During the Spring Festival, the refrigerator should not be empty, and the rice jar should be filled at any time, because these two things are closely related to food and clothing, which symbolizes that the family has no worries about food and clothing.
The origin of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival
The custom of sweeping dust originated in the Yao and Shun era and evolved from an ancient religious ceremony to drive away epidemics. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the wind of sweeping the year prevailed. According to the Song Dynasty poet Wu's Record of Dreams and Beasts, in December, all ordinary people, big or small, will sweep out the house, clean up the dust and dirt, and pray for a safe new year. Today, there is a saying among the people that on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the house should be cleaned.
It is said that this custom originated from ancient legends. In ancient mythology, Zhuan Xu had a son who failed to live up to expectations. He was lazy, dressed in rags and drank very thin porridge. One year on New Year's Eve, he died in a corner, cold and hungry. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, people take the opportunity of cleaning to take out the rags and leftovers at home and throw them away before the arrival of the new year, indicating that they will not let the poor go home.
There is a strange story about the origin of sweeping dust in ancient times. Legend has it that everyone is attached to a three-corpse god. He often reports to the Jade Emperor and speaks ill of the world. In a very short time, the Jade Emperor received 99999 tips from him, saying that the world was going to rebel against heaven. When the Jade Emperor saw this, he was furious. He immediately summoned three corpse gods and ordered him to write their crimes on the walls of people who spoke ill of the Jade Emperor, and then let spiders weave a big net and hang it under the eaves. The Jade Emperor also ordered Wang Lingguan to go to the lower bound on New Year's Eve, and all families marked by the Three Corpses God would be beheaded. Seeing that the plot was about to succeed, they could monopolize the beautiful world. The three resin gods quickly descended to earth and marked the walls of each house.
The Kitchen God discovered the plot of three corpse gods, and quickly found the kitchen gods of each family to discuss countermeasures: from the day the kitchen delivered it, every family should clean it up before New Year's Eve. When Wang Lingguan visited the lower bound on New Year's Eve, he found that every household was clean without any trace, and the people were quiet and hardworking. The Jade Emperor learned from Wang Lingguan and Chef Jun that the Three Corpses God had wronged a good man and was furious. He put the Three Corpses God in prison forever. Since then, this kind cook has been welcomed by everyone. It is also a folk custom to offer sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month and sweep the dust on the 24th.