Why can't you go back to your parents' home on the fifth day of the first lunar month? What can't you do on the fifth day of the first lunar month?

I believe many people know that you cannot go back to your parents’ home casually during the New Year. According to traditional customs, you can only go back to your parents’ home on the second day of the New Year during the Spring Festival. So why can’t we go back to our parents’ home on the fifth day of the first lunar month? What can’t you do on the fifth day of the first lunar month?

Why can't I go back to my parents' home on the fifth day of the first lunar month?

The fifth day of the first lunar month is the day to welcome the God of Wealth, so you can’t go back to your parents’ home;
Because this day is the day to welcome the God of Wealth, also known as the "Po Wu Festival", and it is a custom for women to not go out on the fifth day of the first lunar month, so according to traditional customs, it is not recommended to return to your parents' home on the fifth day of the first lunar month.
According to legend, Jiang Taigong named his wife the God of Poverty and ordered her to "return home as soon as she sees poverty." The fifth day of the first lunar month is the day to drive away the God of Poverty. Not being able to return to one's parents' home on the fifth day is actually to avoid seeing the God of Poverty, that is, the young wife. In some places, it is simply called "Send the poor wife out on the fifth day and welcome the God of Wealth." In fact, it was a kind of disrespect to women in ancient times.
However, from a realistic point of view, with the development of the times, many married women can return to their parents' home if they want to.

What can't you do on the fifth day of the first lunar month?

1. Clothes and quilts cannot be changed or washed. According to old saying, changing or washing clothes and bedding on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is unlucky.
2. You cannot shave your head. In the old days, shaving your head was taboo in the first month of the lunar calendar. It is said that shaving one's head will hurt one's uncle. There is an anecdote for this. According to old local chronicles, the Qing Dynasty issued an edict to shave the hair, which was implemented in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, and the Ming Dynasty system was changed. When people shave their heads, they think of their old kings, so it is called "thinking of the past." It has been passed down for a long time and was mistakenly written as "dead uncle".
3. You are not allowed to visit relatives or friends, and you are not allowed to go to other people’s homes. It is said that visiting relatives will bring bad luck to other people’s homes.
4. You cannot move and you are forbidden to paste paper on the windows and lattices. Moving house or pasting up windows and lattices on the fifth day of the first lunar month is considered unlucky.