Taboos of Lantern Festival

No killing, no washing.

Lantern Festival taboo taboo 1: Do not kill. As a family reunion and beautiful traditional festival, killing is forbidden on this day. If you see blood, it represents a very ominous sign, so everyone must refrain from killing.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, the most taboo is to wash your hair, because the "hair" of your hair means making a fortune. If you wash your hair on this day, you will wash away a year's wealth, so that we can't make money in the new year.

The rise of the custom of burning lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month is also related to the spread of Buddhism to the east. In the Tang dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and officials and ordinary people generally "lit lanterns for the Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first month, so Buddhist lanterns were spread all over the people. Since the Tang Dynasty, Lantern Festival lighting has become a legal thing.