The custom of the second day of the first month

Speaking of the custom of the second day of the first month, many people know little about other old traditions except "going back to their parents' home". In fact, every day of the Spring Festival these days is very important. Let's talk about the custom of the second day of the first month.

1. Go back to your mother's house

On the second day of New Year's Day, it is also called "wedding day". On this day, the married daughter will take her husband and children back to her family to pay New Year greetings and give her a small red envelope to show her happiness in married life. Going back to my parents' home is the so-called "mothering" in ancient times. Going back to my parents' home during the Spring Festival is very different from Peace Day. Before going back to her parents' house, the married girl must buy some biscuits and sweets and distribute them to her neighbors. Although these things are not expensive gifts, they reflect the girl's deep yearning for her hometown folks.

Sacrifice to the god of wealth

In the north of China, besides going back to her mother's house, there will be activities to worship the God of Wealth. The Chinese nation is a nation with profound belief culture. Besides ancestor belief and totem belief, the most important belief is immortal belief. Due to the difference between north and south, northerners think that the second day of the first month is the day to worship the god of wealth, especially businessmen who do business pay special attention to the ceremony to worship the god of wealth. Sacrifice generally uses "five sacrifices", namely whole pig, whole sheep, whole chicken, whole duck and red live carp. By offering sacrifices to the god of wealth, we pray for abundant resources in the new year.

Eat noodles

As the saying goes: "the first day of the child, the second day of the face, the third day of the zygote to turn home (earn)." Noodles look like strips, which means everything is going well. Eating noodles in the second day of junior high school means that the new year will be smooth, healthy and long-lived. On the other hand, the second day is also the day when my daughter takes her son-in-law back to her mother's house to eat noodles and greet her family. I also want them to live a smooth, long and auspicious life.

Eat wonton

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, many places will choose to eat wonton. The homonym of wonton is "wonton", which means that the grains are full and the grains are plentiful. Wonton looks like an ingot, too. When wrapping wonton, you should pinch the two corners of wonton skin to sandwich the stuffing, commonly known as "pocket money" People call a bowl of wonton "Yuanbao soup", which means that the New Year is smooth and the financial resources are rolling.

Eat hair cake

There are various eating customs in the second day of junior high school, and there is another food that people want to eat, that is, "making cakes." On the second day of the second day, the cooked cake will be worshipped to the ancestors first, and then the whole family will eat it together, or the daughter will go back to her mother's house and bring it to her family. It means that in the new year, you will be rich and tall (cake), and the cake can also be made into flowers and fish to represent that the flowers are rich and the days are getting better and better.

There are many customs, etiquette and taboos in the Spring Festival. For example, a daughter can't go back to her parents' home empty-handed, so she must bring an even number of gifts. In the old tradition, cleaning and taking out garbage from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the Spring Festival were considered to sweep away wealth. In a word, there are still many interesting folk customs in China's traditional culture. Although most of them are not scientific, they are also part of China's traditional culture, and some of them are worth inheriting.