You cannot wash your hair on the first day of the new year.

It is widely believed that people who wash their hair on the first day of the Lunar New Year will lose their wealth. This saying has been passed down since ancient times, but many people don’t understand it. In fact, in the past, people did not wash their hair on the first day of the Lunar New Year because of the traditional custom of worshiping ancestors and gods and not letting their hair hang loose. Women in the past often had long hair and did not have hair dryers. After washing their hair, it was very time-consuming to style their hair. Never wash your hair.

Customs:

1. Dumplings: attracting wealth

"Dumplings" are also known as "Jiaozi", which means the alternation of the old and the new. At the same time, dumplings are shaped like ingots, so eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year naturally brings the auspicious meaning of "bringing in wealth and treasure". The selection of filling materials for dumplings is also very particular, and dumplings stuffed with chives are a must-have, because leek is a homophone for long, which means long-term happiness. Cabbage and meat stuffing means "hundreds of wealth", and mushroom stuffing means "drum" wealth. Everything is a beautiful blessing on the occasion of the festival.

2. Chicken: good luck and good luck

"Chicken" and "吉" are homophonic, which means auspiciousness, joy and luck. There is even a saying in many places that "there is no feast without chickens", which symbolizes "all things will be auspicious". When the rooster sings, the world will be happy. This is a must-have recipe to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new.

3. Fish: Prosperity every year

Fish is a homophone for "surplus", which means more than anything every year. In some places in China, there is one fish on New Year's Eve and one fish on New Year's Day. They all mean "fish every year" and "more than every year", embodying the good wishes of "having a beginning and an end".