According to Chinese traditional customs, it is generally believed that if a married daughter returns to her natal family to celebrate New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, it will ruin the feng shui of her natal family.
"Married daughters cannot celebrate the New Year in their natal family" and "divorced women cannot celebrate the New Year in their natal family." Many places have such customs. There are two main "reasons": First, "the water thrown out by a married daughter cannot come back."
It means that the daughter should not be homesick, but wholeheartedly build her new home in her husband's house and live a good life.
Especially on the first day of the Lunar New Year, as the first day of the new year, the daughter cannot celebrate the New Year at her parents’ home.
The Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of the year in China. Gods will be invited on the 30th and first day of the Lunar New Year. When the gods are invited, the family members must be present. If there are outsiders, the gods will not be invited back. The daughter is married to someone with a foreign surname, so she cannot return to her natal family on the thirtieth and first day of the lunar month. Otherwise, the feng shui of her natal family will be ruined, and her natal family will have bad luck in the coming year.
In addition to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, as well as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a married daughter cannot return to her parents' home.
These are just traditional Chinese customs in the past. Nowadays, many young people no longer pay attention to these, especially those families with one child. They will take turns celebrating the New Year, so that they can spend more time with themselves. 's parents. The second is that "a married daughter will go home for the New Year and her parents' family will be impoverished."
During the Chinese New Year, you have to invite gods to send gifts (that is, the ancestors of the family). After getting married, the daughter becomes someone else’s family.
If there is a married daughter present during the Chinese New Year, the ancestors will not invite her back, and the family will be unlucky in the new year, causing her family to lose money, especially to her elder brother or younger brother. However, now that people have advanced with the times, many people no longer care about this. For example, if the door is opened upside down, the daughter has a dual identity, being both a daughter and a daughter-in-law, so there is no way to pay attention to it. There are also single-woman households that have also changed. In addition, I happened to have a divorced daughter who also spent the Chinese New Year at her parents’ home. In short, some old traditions need to be inherited, and some need to keep pace with the times. As long as unspoken rules are formed, everyone will accept them.