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The second day of the Lunar New Year is the second day of the Spring Festival. People in China have always attached great importance to the traditional customs during the Spring Festival. Every place has some customs from the first to the fifteenth day. So what are the customs on the second day of the Lunar New Year? What are the customs on the second day of the Lunar New Year? 1. Return to parents’ home on the second day of the Lunar New Year <br/>On the second day of the Lunar New Year every year, I believe the busiest people are the married girls in every household. Because on this day, as a daughter and son-in-law, they have to bring rich gifts and go back to the girl's parents' home to pay New Year's greetings. There is a taboo when it comes to bringing gifts, which is to avoid odd numbers rather than even numbers. Remember to prepare even numbers for gifts.
2. Worship the God of Wealth on the second day of the Lunar New Year <br/>On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the God of Wealth. People will rush to the God of Wealth temple to burn the "first incense stick". No matter which god they worship, some believers will keep a Buddha statue at home. On the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, they will get up early in the morning to burn incense and pray for peace and success in their business or family.
3. Visiting graves on the second day of the Lunar New Year <br/>In Sichuan, Fujian and other places, there is a custom of visiting graves on the second day of the Lunar New Year. The elders take the younger generations to find the ancestral graves, offer sacrifices, remember the ancestors, and inherit the family tradition. Customs from the first to the fifteenth day of the lunar month ——The first day of the first lunar month <br/>You cannot use a broom on the first day of the first lunar month, otherwise it will sweep away your luck and cause you to lose money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still retain this custom. People clean the house before New Year's Eve, do not use the broom or take out the garbage on New Year's Day, and prepare a large bucket to hold waste water, which is not spilled on that day. You are not allowed to break furniture during the New Year. Doing so is a sign of financial loss. You have to quickly say “May you have a peaceful new year” or “May you be rich and prosperous.”
——The second day of the first lunar month <br/>On the second day of the first lunar month, married daughters return to their parents’ home and require their husbands to accompany them, so it is commonly known as “the day to welcome the son-in-law”. On this day, the daughter who returns to her parents' home must bring some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to the children in her parents' home, and have lunch at her parents' home, but must return to her husband's home before dinner.
——The third day of the first lunar month <br/>The third day of the first lunar month is also known as "Red Dog Day", which has the same pronunciation as "Red Mouth". People usually do not go out to pay New Year's greetings. It is said that it is easy to have quarrels with others on this day. However, this custom has long been outdated, as people rarely get together during the Spring Festival nowadays, and this custom has become less popular.
——The fourth day of the first lunar month <br/>The fourth day of the first lunar month is the day to worship the God of Wealth. In the past, if a boss wanted to fire someone, he would not invite him to worship the God of Wealth on this day. The other party would then know what was going on and would pack up and leave. There is also a legend that the Kitchen God will come to check the household registration on this day, so it is not advisable to travel far.
——The fifth day of the first lunar month <br/>The fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as "Po Wu", and it is necessary to "drive away the five poverty", including "poverty of wisdom, poverty of learning, poverty of literature, poverty of life, and poverty of friendship." People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean the place. Set off firecrackers from inside to outside, while walking towards the door. It is said that all unlucky things should be blasted away. On this day, the common folk custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the villain's mouth".
——The sixth day of the first lunar month <br/>On the sixth day of the first lunar month, shops and restaurants officially open for business, and firecrackers are set off, which is no less exciting than on New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular person on this day is the boy who turns 12 that year, because 12 is twice 6, which is called "six sixes are lucky". On this day, every household has to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending away the ghost of poverty.
——The seventh day of the first lunar month <br/>The seventh day of the first lunar month is “Renri”, which is people’s birthday. According to the "Zhanshu", starting from the first day, God created all things in the order of "one chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people, eight grains", so the seventh day is "Human Day". Everyone should be respected on "Renri". In the past, even the government could not execute criminals on this day, and parents could not teach their children on this day.
——The eighth day of the first lunar month <br/>The eighth day of the first lunar month is "Gu Day", also known as "Shunxing Festival". Legend has it that it is the day when all the stars descend to the earth and the stars in the sky are at their fullest. If the weather is clear on this day, it indicates a good rice harvest this year.
——The ninth day of the first lunar month <br/>The ninth day of the first lunar month is considered the birthday of the Jade Emperor according to folk customs, and a grand ceremony to worship the gods is held. In some places, people celebrate the birthday of the God of Heaven on this day and pray for good weather, peace and health in the new year.
——The tenth day of the first lunar month <br/>The tenth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of stone. On this day, all stone tools such as grinders and mills cannot be moved. In some places, people also worship stones on this day.
——The eleventh day of the first lunar month <br/>The eleventh day of the first lunar month is "Son-in-law Day", the day when the father-in-law entertains his son-in-law.
——From the 12th to the 15th day of the first lunar month <br/>After the 11th day of the first lunar month, people begin to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival. From the 12th day of the first lunar month, they start to buy lanterns and build lantern sheds. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "On the eleventh day, people are chattering; on the twelve day, they set up the lantern shed; on the thirteenth day, they light the lanterns; on the fourteenth day, the lanterns are at full brightness; on the fifteenth day, the moon is half full; on the sixteenth day, they put away the lanterns." The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Lantern Festival". It is the first full-moon night of the year and the night when spring comes back to the earth. It is also known as the "Shangyuan Festival". The custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty. On this day, people enjoy the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival dumplings. The sixteenth night of the first lunar month is a children's festival. All the children take out their lanterns and bump them against other people's lanterns. Then they laugh and watch the other people's lanterns catch fire. This is called "bumping lanterns." What is important is that this year’s lanterns cannot be kept until next year and must be destroyed by “touching the lanterns”.
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