Top 8 Chinese New Year Superstitions February 8, 2008
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Chinese New Year may be a time for friends, family and fun, but is also a time for foreboding as the festival is riddled with superstitions. The Chinese place much stock in the rites and rituals in Chinese New Year superstitions.
Check out top 8 Chinese New Year superstition tips below to make sure the year of the rat doesn’t land you in the sewer.
1. Dirty Doings. Put your feet up and relax. Certainly the most enjoyable of the Chinese New Year superstitions, sweeping and cleaning is strictly forbidden. The Chinese believe cleaning means you’ll sweep all of your good luck out the front door.
2. Time to Come Clean. Before you can enjoy number two, you need to give the house a full spring clean, before putting cleaning tools in the cupboard on New Year’s Eve.
3. Choppy Waters. Make sure you avoid rough seas in the new year by not buying shoes over the holiday period. In Cantonese, shoes are a homonym for ‘rough’. (more…)
