The Chinese New Year's Eve is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, and it is also the last day of the year. There are many customs and taboos associated with the Chinese New Year's Eve. Let's explore them together. With the warm spring breeze, the Spring Festival is coming. Please visit our 2019 Chinese New Year Special to learn more about the knowledge and content of the New Year.

When is the Chinese New Year's Eve?

The Chinese New Year's Eve is on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. In 2019, the date of the Chinese New Year's Eve is February 4;
The term "Chinese New Year's Eve" originally means "the day of getting rid of the old." It refers to the day when the old year is replaced by the new one. On this day, the old year ends, and the new year begins.
"Chu" means to remove;
"Xi" means night.
"Chinese New Year's Eve" means the night of the last day of the year, also known as the big night, the New Year's Eve, or the night of the end of the year. It is the time for getting rid of the old and welcoming the new, family reunion, and worshiping ancestors. Together with the Qingming Festival, the Hungry Ghost Festival, and the Double Ninth Festival, it is a traditional festival in China for worshipping ancestors. In the hearts of the Chinese people, the Chinese New Year's Eve holds a special significance. This is the most important day of the end of the year, and even the most distant wanderers will return home to reunite with their families. They bid farewell to the old year with the sound of firecrackers and welcome the new year with fireworks in the sky.
The last day of the "year" is called "Chu Nian," and the night of that day is called "Chinese New Year's Eve." It connects the end of the year with the beginning of the new year, hence the saying "end of the year, end of the month, approaching the end of the year." It is the eve of the new year and an important junction between getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. Because the Chinese New Year's Eve often falls on the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month, it is also called "the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month." On the day of "Chu Nian," people pay particular attention to it. All households are busy cleaning their homes, removing the old and welcoming the new, putting up red lanterns, welcoming the ancestors back to celebrate the New Year, and offering rice cakes, three kinds of meat dishes, and tea and wine to worship them.

Can a married daughter return to her parents' home on Chinese New Year's Eve?

In ancient society, a married daughter was compared to water that had been poured out. It was believed that after a woman married, she became a member of another family and would not carry on the family lineage like sons, nor bring value to her original family. Although daughters were still the biological children of their parents, although they maintained a blood relationship on the surface, in reality, they gradually moved away from closeness to distance, like water that had already been poured out of the door.
Confucianism required women to abide by the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues." The "Three Obediences" mean: while at home, be obedient to your father; after marriage, be obedient to your husband; if your husband dies, be obedient to your son. At that time, regardless of whether they were in their original family or in their husband's family, women had no rights or status of their own. Even if a daughter had the opportunity to return to her parents' home, in the eyes of her family members, she was already considered an outsider, and she would not be involved in family matters.
It is a common saying that "the fire on Chinese New Year's Eve, the lanterns on the fifteenth of the first lunar month." This means that a married daughter cannot see the fire of her parents' house on Chinese New Year's Eve. If she sees it, her parents' family will not become wealthy or prosperous next year. Therefore, a married daughter can return home to have the reunion dinner with her parents, but she cannot spend Chinese New Year's Eve at her parents' home, and she cannot participate in the ceremony of going out to meet the new year on the morning of the first day of the new year.

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