. Many people know the customs and taboos of the second day of the New Year's Day, but they don't know the customs of the third day. In fact, the custom of the third day of the Lunar New Year is very particular among the people. Let's take a look at the customs and taboos on the third day of the Lunar New Year.
The third day of New Year's Eve is also called "Little Eve" and "Red Dog Day". The "off-year dynasty" is the Tianqing Festival. In the first year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, due to the spread of gobbledygook, Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, which designated the third day of the first month as Tianqing Festival, and officials had a five-day holiday, which was the later off-year dynasty. In some areas, people generally don't pay New Year's greetings on New Year's Day, because the third day of the first month is "Red Mouth", also known as "Red Dog Day". Legend has it that the red dog is the god of anger, and it is easy to cause quarrels when it meets, so people stay at home on this day to avoid meeting fierce people.
The third day is to send the kitchen god. From small to large, that is, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, please go back to the kitchen god and stick it in the middle of the kitchen table, and place offerings, which means to bless the whole family with abundant grains and plenty of food and clothing in the coming year. On the third day of the first month, the kitchen god will be sent away. In Shandong, especially in Jinan, there is an interesting custom "digging the crescent moon on the third day", which means children's teeth. Digging the crescent moon can keep children from suffering from dental diseases for a year.
On the third day of the first month, dig the crescent moon. children
Zhang Jiping, an expert in folklore, said: "Some women came to the yard with their children, knelt on the futon facing the new moon, dug the crescent moon several times with a spoon in their hands, and then gestured at their ribs, chanting in their mouths:" Dig the crescent moon on the third day of the first month, and the wind tooth will go with the wind, and never send it again. "