🧧 15 Things Not to Do During Chinese New Year 2026 (Fire Horse Year)

Chinese New Year 2026 Tuesday, February 17, 2026 Mamia (Fire Horse) - The strongest fire power year in 60 years!

Want to Heng all year, rich all year. Must remember these "taboos" precisely! The Chinese believe that what is done on the first day of the year will affect good luck all year round.

⚠️ Important warning for the Fire Horse Year!

🔥 about shirt color - this year, do not wear pure red for "brew year"!

Brew Year 2026 (Do not wear strong red / strong orange):

❇ Great year (straight brew) - full hit

❇ Year of the Mamia (Brew Yourself) - Fire, hit the fire!

□ Year of the year (Heng year) - there is already a problem.

□ Year of the Year (Year of the Year)

□ Qulu year (Hai year)

Why don't you?

❇ Horse year = Fire element already

❇ Put on the intense red (fire element) + fire year = fire itself!

❇ Aftermath: easy anger, impatience, quarrel, illness, accident

What color should be worn instead? (For the brew year)

✅ Earth Elemental Colors - Brown Beige Cream Light Yellow (Stabilizing, Enhancing Stability) ✅ Gold / Silver (Slight to Call for Property) ✅ Light Green Light Blue (Wood-Water Elemental, Keeping Calm)

Note: Doctor Chang states that "on Chinese New Year only one day" can be worn red because it is a celebration day, but all year round. The brew year should avoid intense red and orange.

❌ 1. Do not eat porridge in the morning.

Why don't you?

□ In the old days, the poor often ate porridge for breakfast.

□ Eating porridge the first day of the year = polish fortune, scrub luck, scrub riches

What should I eat?

✅ Pleats Dumplings (shaped like a gold bar) ✅ Bajang (auspicious wrap) ✅ First Meal (get merit equal to vegetarianism all year!) ✅ Do not eat meat in the morning (vegetarian gods)

❌ 2. Do not sweep the house. Do not litter.

Why don't you?

❇ Sweeping the house = sweeping the fortune away from the house

❇ Dumping waste = dumping wealth

What to do?

❇ Complete cleaning before Chinese New Year

❇ If really have to sweep → sweep inside. Don't sweep outside.

❇ Wait for 2-3 days past Chinese New Year, clean up

❌ 3. Do not wash your hair. Do not cut your hair.

Why don't you?

□ The word "hair" is synonymous with "wealthy."

❇ Hair wash / haircut = leaching away wealth

Additional beliefs:

□ Barbering is prohibited throughout the first month of the year.

❇ Believe that the first month's haircut = the mother's aunt will die.

What to do?

❇ Wash your hair clean before Chinese New Year

❇ Wait through the day 2 months 2 lunar gradually cut new hair

❌ 4. No washing.

Why don't you?

❇ Water God Born on Chinese New Year - Laundry = Blaspheming the Gods

❇ Water = wealth → Pouring water = pouring away wealth

❌ 5. Do not wear black-white shirts.

Why don't you?

❇ Black + White = Mourning Color Funeral Color

Auspicious colors for the average person (not brewed):

✅ Red - Lucky Success ✅ Gold / Yellow - Wealth ✅ Pink - Love, Happiness ✅ Green - Growth ✅ Orange - Positive Power

❌ 6. Do not use sharp objects (knives, scissors, needles)

Why don't you?

❇ Sharp stuff = cut the fortune stream

❇ Scissors = cut ties

❇ Sewing needle = cause a quarrel

What to do?

❇ Slicing everything food before Chinese New Year

❇ Abstain from sewing, abstain from using knives

❌ 7. Do not break things.

Why don't you?

□ Broken stuff = broken relationship. Broken luck.

If really broken:

1. Immediately speak "Luoty Kai Hwa" (safe break)

2. Wrap the shards of glass with red paper.

3. Dump on the 5th

❌ 8. Don't cry.

Why don't you?

❇ First day crying = grieving the whole year

❇ Children crying = bringing nemesis to the family

❌ 9. Do not quarrel, speak bad words.

Why don't you?

❇ First day quarrel = whole year quarrel

The words forbidden to speak: ❌ death, sickness until the ghost cheats, breaks, kills, hurts.

Should say: ✅ Xinjia Yui (wish you wealth) ✅ Xinji Hai Chai (Happy New Year) ✅ Rich Heng Ruined

❌ 10. Do not borrow money, lend debt.

Why don't you?

❇ Borrowed money = owed throughout the year

❇ Lend = Money flows out for the whole year

❇ Debt collection = others until they lack money

What to do?

❇ Pay all debts before Chinese New Year

❇ Prepare cash for use

❌ 11. Do not wake up people who are sleeping.

Why don't you?

❇ Wake up people on Chinese New Year = Be rushed to work all year. No time to rest

❌ 12. Do not go to the hospital (if not necessary)

Why don't you?

❇ Go to hospital = sick all year

❇ Take pills = take pills all year round

Note: If actually sick, life is more important than belief!

❌ 13. Married daughters are prohibited from returning to their parents' homes.

Why don't you?

❇ First day home = bring poverty to parents

What to do?

□ Returning home to parents on the 2nd day (Feb 18, 2026)

❇ Bring your husband and children with you with gifts

❌ 14. Do not give auspicious gifts.

Do not give:

❌ Clock (body delivery)

❌ Umbrella (split)

❌ Pear (separated)

❌ Scissors, knives (cut ties)

❌ Shoes (send people far away)

❌ something that's number 4.

Should provide:

✅ Aung Pao (even number)

✅ Orange 4 results

✅ Fruit basket

✅, tea, coffee.

❌ 15. Do not enter other people's bedrooms.

Why don't you?

❇ Entering someone else's bedroom on Chinese New Year = bad luck

🔥 Bonus: More Cautions for Fire Horse Years

For the year of the brew (Chong, Mammea, Thao, Khulu):

⚠️ Do not continue to penetrate the walls, smash the "south" of the house.

⚠️ Avoid risky businesses. Invest a lot.

⚠️ Be careful about health. Hot temper.

✅ Summary: How to Heng?

DO (should do):

✅ Clean the house before Chinese New Year.

✅ Put on new clothes. Proper colors.

✅ to you, to your ancestors.

✅ Families eat auspicious food.

✅ talk about good things, be happy.

DON'T (Do Not Do):

❌ Eat porridge. Eat meat in the morning.

❌ Sweep the house, litter, laundry.

❌ Wash your hair and cut your hair.

❌ wear strong red / orange (if the brew year)

❌ wear black-white

❌. Use sharp stuff.

❌ crying, fighting.

❌ borrow money, collect debt.

🐴 Important information

Key dates:

□ Feb 15 = pay date

□ 16 Feb = Wai Wai Day

□ Feb 17 = Travel Day (Chinese New Year)

❇ Feb 18 = Daughter returns home

Fire Horse Years: The Most Strong Fire Power in 60 Years - Heat, Change, Rocket-Mounted Karma

Remember, the most important thing is good intentions, philanthropy and family love. 💕

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