Can I go back to my parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival? In ancient times, there was a custom of returning home during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The 2017 Dragon Boat Festival holiday is coming soon. Should I go back to my parents’ home or my husband’s home for the Dragon Boat Festival? Can I celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at my mother’s house? Next, let’s take a look at the content related to returning to my mother’s home during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Can I go back to my parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival?

The Custom of “Returning Home”

In ancient times, after a daughter got married, she would live in her husband's home for a long time and rarely saw her parents. From the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a custom of returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, commonly known as "Returning to the Parents' Home." "Wan Shu Miscellaneous Notes" written by Chen Bang of the Ming Dynasty recorded: "On the Daughter's Day in May, people have to wear a Dragon Boat Festival purse, mugwort and five poisonous spirit talismans. The custom in Wan is to dress up the little daughter from the first to the fifth day of May (the fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival), and do their best to show her beauty. Married daughters also return to their parents' homes." Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Daughter's Day."

The custom of "hiding from noon"

In Chinese folk culture, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is known as the "poisonous month", and the Double Fifth Festival is an even more unlucky day. Therefore, men and women should not have sexual intercourse during the Dragon Boat Festival, otherwise it will easily cause serious damage to people's vitality. In order to prevent such things from happening, the clever ancients had the custom of letting women return to their parents' home and live there for a month in May. There is also a custom that babies under one year old should be sent to their grandmother's house to hide during the Dragon Boat Festival to escape disasters.