Chinese New Year is approaching, it is a tradition for families to clean their houses before the start of the new year. The word ‘dust’ in Chinese is a homophone for ‘old’, thus cleaning the house is symbolic of driving away the bad luck of the previous year to allow for a new start.
However, how much do you know about the spring cleaning taboo? 6 steps to avoid during spring cleaning, let’s have a look!
1. Do not move your bedside
For the sake of freshness, people prefer to change their sleeping position from time to time. Anyhow, changing the direction of your bedside often may affect your personal luck during the year. The placement of your bed must follow a strict requirement and avoid amendment in the future.
2. Do not change your front door
When a door appears old and rusty, you would want to replace it. However, according to ‘feng shui’, front gate is absolutely important in bringing fortune to the family. It is a big taboo to move or change your front door as it can cause a series of bad luck. You should clean it instead of replacing it.
3. Avoid drilling the wall and ground-breaking
During this time of the year, drilling the wall or breaking the ground at the wrong places will awake the demon. Do not drill the wall randomly, a simple cleaning is sufficient.
4. Do not tamper your kitchen and stove
Kitchen and stove have a special bonding to a person’s health in ‘feng shui’. Therefore, once the stove is installed, avoid moving in the future.
5. Do not add extra entrance
Sometimes we like to add new things in our home. For example, people would add a new door or extra entrance in the house. This is a actually quite risky. Once it is added incorrectly, it will cause destruction to the luck of the year. We shall not add extra door in our house at our own will.
6. Clean with the right direction
When cleaning, ordinary people will sweep from inside of the house to the outside, as a meaning of sweep away all the bad lucks and unfortunate events of the year. This is in fact a correct way of cleaning, if the families are prone to bad lucks and sickness. However, if this year’s fortune is good and positive for you, you should sweep from the outside to the inside to keep your lucks inside of the house. In this way, everything will go in a smooth way.
