5 CHINESE CUSTOMS TO OBSERVE

Moving is a big deal for everyone, as it means a new

life and a fresh start of your family fortune. As a result,
you should proceed with caution. Then, what are the
customs to observe and do's and don'ts in Feng Shui
for moving into a new house?
 1. Do choose an auspicious moving day: it is important
to choose an auspicious day for moving into the new
house. Cheng Day (''Cheng'' means accomplishing in
everything), Horse Day (6th day of a lunar month),
Ecliptic Day (a day good for everything) and San He Day
(a triple harmony day) shall be selected as the lucky
day for moving. The inauspicious days, such as Bai Day
(a failure day), Break Day (a misfortune day), Heidao
Day (a day bad for everything) and other taboo days in
folk shall be avoided. If a day offends the zodiac sign of
your family member, then it will be unfit for moving.
2. Do move in before the sunset: you'd better move
into the new house in the morning or at noon rather
than after the sunset and at night. Otherwise, it has the
meaning of laboring day and night, going out early and
coming home late in Feng Shui.
3. Do clean the house and open the doors and
windows for two or three days to ventilate and bring in
the auspicious air before moving into the new house.
 4. If possible, you'd better set off firecrackers to drive
away the evil spirits when you move into the new
house.
 5. The items to be moved out in the new house shall
be handled by others while the items to be moved into
the new house shall be handled by your family
members.
6. Several items shall be prepared on the moving day: a
rice box with 80% rice inside and a red packet on it, for
the meaning of enough food after moving into the
house; high-end clothing packed in the suitcase, for the
meaning of abundant clothing for the whole life. Also,
the items above shall be brought into the kitchen or
bedroom first before you move other items into the
new house.
 7. If you have a spirit tablet, do move it in and worship
first.
8. Do choose an auspicious hour for bed installation. If
there is no auspicious hour available on the moving
day, lean the bed against the wall and wait for an
auspicious hour to install. Once the bed is installed,
you'd better ask a person under the Dragon sign to sit
on the bed first.
9. Choose new pillows for your new home. According
to Chinese Feng Shui, moving means the transfer of Qi
field and the pillows shall be brought into the new
house first since head ranks top in terms of Qi field:
bring the pillows in the quantity same as that of your
family members into the new house first and arrange
as per the bed of everyone. Chinese people in Hong
Kong, Singapore and other places still have the custom
of putting a red pocket with HKD 138 or so inside the
pillow for the lucky meaning of ''thriving for the whole
life''.
 10. On the moving day, boil a pot of water for the
symbol of profits pouring in from all sides.
 11. Block all kinds of basins and sinks (in kitchen,
bathroom, etc.) and turn on the taps to have the water
run slowly for the meaning of enormous fortune. Also,
you may turn the fans on and blow around rather than
to the front door for the auspicious meaning of
prospering.
 12. Take some earth of the old house to the new in
case of being unaccustomed to the new environment.
13. Light up the new house on the moving day until the
next day to keep your new home flourishing. Someone
even keep the lights on for three days and three nights
to achieve the goal of flourishing the new house.
 14. Prepare a new dustpan and broom with red cloth
or red ribbon and clean from every corner to the
center of the house, and then to the front door for the
auspicious meaning of cleaning away the old dust and
ushering in the new, and having everything go well.
 15. Housewarming is required for moving. On the first
day or in the first week of moving, you'd better invite
as many friends, relatives and neighbors as possible to
your new home for housewarming, so as to drive out
evil spirits.
TABOOS
1. Do not decorate your bedrooms and living room in
cold and white colors, such as white curtains and
sheets. Instead, you'd better choose the red and
festive colors to drive out the Yin and increase the
Yang and to improve your family fortune.
 2. Keep a good mood and do not lose temper or shout
at someone, especially children, on the moving day.
The unlucky words shall be avoided.
 3. Do not move if you have a pregnant family member
or new baby. If you do need to move, make sure the
mother-to-be does not participate in the moving and
wears a Buddha figure or fetus protection charm. On
the moving day, you may boil water, cook and worship
at a lucky hour. 
 4. Do not move in empty-handedly. On the moving
day, do hold some living goods or valuables when you
enter the new house and never go into the new house
with nothing or look back.
 5. Do not take an afternoon nap in the new house, or
you will be prone to illness after that. At the night of
the moving day, you should lie down for a few minutes
and get up to work for a while, for the symbol of
getting up after sleep.

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