New Year's Day is the Lunar New Year in China. On this day, people will eat spicy food, which will inevitably dirty the floor and sweep the floor. If you sweep the floor at this time of the day, it is easy to find that when you finish sweeping the floor, your elders will give you a red envelope, but the amount of this red envelope will not be too much. Why?
This is because the elders give red envelopes to the underage juniors (according to the concept of China people, married people are considered as adults), which means bringing them good wishes and good luck. The money in a red envelope is mainly to make children happy. Its main meaning is in red paper, because it symbolizes good luck. Therefore, after sweeping the ground in the New Year, the elders will give you a red envelope and want you to forgive.
Opening red envelopes in the New Year is actually very particular. First of all, it is impolite to open red envelopes in front of the elders who distribute them. When we open red envelopes, we should not open them in front of others, but in private. And there is a custom in China, that is, the 15th day of the first month, that is, after the Lantern Festival, red envelopes can be opened.
Here, I want to share with you a lyric about the nursery rhyme of the Spring Festival. "Children, don't be greedy. After Laba, it will be the New Year. If you drink Laba porridge for a few days, it will be twenty-three miles. Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, fried mutton; Twenty-seven, kill the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Play for one night on the evening of the 30 th and sweep it on the New Year's Day. "
In short, the problem of "we can't sweep the floor during the New Year, but we should sweep it from the outside to the inside" is that our cultural heritage is profound, so we should actively carry forward our traditional culture and do our part for the motherland.