Can you return to your parents' home during the Ghost Festival?
It is best not to return to your parents' home during the Ghost Festival. According to folk beliefs, it may bring negative effects to your family;The Ghost Festival is a day when ghosts are active, so people should not go home. According to customs, on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, daughters return to their parents' home to pay respects to their parents. If both parents are alive, they should not return home, nor on the fourteenth day, but on the sixteenth day. If your mother and father call you to come back to pay respects to the ancestors, you can, but you should not bring food;
What happens if you return to your parents' home during the Ghost Festival?
(1) Daughters who have married should not sleep in the same bed as their husbands during the Ghost Festival, which may lead to problems in their marital relationship.(2) Daughters who have married staying at their parents' home may be bad for the wealth of their brothers.
(3) Daughters who have married returning to their parents' home must not look back once they leave the house. Looking back means that they will face difficulties in their in-laws' family and eventually have to return.
(4) Daughters who have married should not give birth or return to their parents' home before the postpartum period, as this may bring bad luck.
Traditional Chinese festivals where daughters should not return to their parents' home
1. Spring Festival, on the first day of the new year, married daughters must stay with their in-laws. On the second day of the first lunar month, only when relatives from their parents' side come to invite them can they return home. 2. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, known as the Lantern Festival, is also a day of reunion, but daughters should not return to their parents' home. There is a folk saying, "Seeing the lanterns of one's parents brings lifelong poverty," so they must stay with their in-laws. 3. The second day of the second lunar month, the Dragon Head Raising Day, is also not a suitable time for daughters to return home. 4. During the Qingming Festival, daughters should not return home either. Moreover, women are not allowed to visit cemeteries, whether they are at their in-laws' home or their parents' home. 5. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Ghost Festival, when all ghosts are active, and thus it is not appropriate for daughters to return home. According to custom, daughters return home on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month to pay respects to their parents. If both parents are still alive, they should not return home, nor on the fourteenth day, but rather on the sixteenth day. 6. On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a day of reunion, daughters can only celebrate at their in-laws' home. If a daughter celebrates the festival at her parents' home, neighbors will mock her. 7. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Laba Festival, daughters should not return home either. According to folk belief, "Do not eat the rice of your parents on Laba Day, or your ancestors will never be able to repay." Another belief is that returning home on Laba Day is not lucky for the mother-in-law, and she will die in an awkward way after her death. 8. The Kitchen God Day, also known as the Little New Year, has a custom that daughters should not return home because women are not supposed to worship the Kitchen God. "Three parts fate, seven parts luck." Fate has its hierarchy, and luck has its ups and downs.To know your own fortune, click on the [Premium Forecast] below to check your latest 2019 fortune!
