Why do we go back to our parents' home on the second day of the first lunar month? What kind of New Year's goods should we prepare when we go back to our parents' home?

On the second day of the first lunar month, married daughters have to return to their parents' home. The return of a new bride to her parents' home is called "fancuo", which was called "guining" in ancient times. She has to return to her parents' home three times in a row. So why do they have to return to their parents' home on the second day of the first lunar month? What New Year’s goods should I prepare when I go back to my parents’ home?

Why do we go back to our parents' home on the second day of the first lunar month?

The second day of the Lunar New Year is called the "New Year's Day". It is the day when daughters and sons-in-law return to their parents' home. In other words, sons-in-law pay New Year's greetings to their parents-in-law, commonly known as the "Wedding Son-in-law Day".

It is believed among the people that a married daughter cannot return to her parents’ home on the first day of the New Year, as doing so will bankrupt her family. She can only return to her parents’ home after the second day of the New Year. As the saying goes, "A daughter with both parents will have her family come to pick her up for a reunion after the second day of the Chinese New Year, but a daughter without either father or mother will have no relatives to miss her, so her family will not send anyone to pick her up.

It is a rule that the woman must spend the New Year at her husband's home. If a daughter wants to celebrate the New Year with her parents, she can only wait until after the sixth day of the New Year. But with the progress of society and the emergence of the concept of gender equality, women stay at their husband's home on the first day of the New Year and go back to their parents' home on the second day to pay New Year's greetings, which reflects the improvement of women's status.

What New Year’s goods should I prepare when I go back to my parents’ home?

1. With meat

According to the custom in some places, when a daughter returns to her parents' home during the Spring Festival, she always brings some meat products to her parents. This may mean that the daughter lives a good life, because in the past, it was not easy for the family to eat meat. So it has been passed down to the present day, bringing meat is equivalent to a woman living a good life in her husband's family. It is to reassure my parents and to earn my own respect.

2. Take supplements

When you go back to your parents' home during the Spring Festival, you must bring some supplements. Our parents have taken care of us all their lives, and perhaps they have no time to prepare supplements for themselves, but as their children, we must think about this.

3. Bring fruit

There may be many parents who want to buy fruits when they see them while shopping, but are reluctant to do so. But if you say you want to eat it, they will definitely buy it, because parents always want their children to live a good life. So it's better for you to bring these fruits for them to eat than for them to take the money and be reluctant to buy them.

4. Bring drinks

There is one thing you must bring when you go back to your parents' home for the Spring Festival with your husband, and that is alcohol. Nowadays, alcohol and other things are always indispensable in many young people's homes. Going to your parents' home and drinking a glass of wine with your father-in-law is also a way of getting along with each other and accompanying each other.