Fish delivery in February refers to the return of fish to her mother’s house on the second day of February in the leap year of the lunar calendar.
Every leap year of the lunar calendar, the married daughter would steam a pair of noodle fish in the leap month and send it to her mother’s house. In the past, people lived a hard life of “half a year of bran vegetables and half a year of grain”, and the phenomenon of eating more than enough grain also occurred from time to time. Most of the people lived according to the lunar calendar, and there would be an extra month when they caught up with the leap year. The daughter was worried that the new year would be long, and her mother’s family would cut off the cooking and starve, so she would take special time to steam a pair of noodle fish and send it away. “Fish” and “Yu” sound homophonic, and the daughter certainly hopes that her mother’s family
This custom has continued to this day, but there have been some evolutions. Due to the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, they can eat pasta every day, and most of them do not send noodle fish. Instead, they send real, lively real fish. This custom not only allows daughters to repay their parents for raising them, but also to clear their parents’ yearning for their daughters.
What should a daughter-in-law’s moving father-in-law give?
A daughter-in-law’s moving house is also a son’s moving house. As a father-in-law, he must go to the greenhouse, give some gifts, and congratulate the house warming. If the father-in-law has good economic conditions, the bigger and more gifts he gives, of course it is better. Give a red envelope of 1-20,000 yuan. You can also give your son and daughter-in-law valuables that you like very much and haven’t bought yet as gifts. If your father-in-law’s economic conditions are average, give a red envelope of 2000-3000 yuan and a live fish to show that you will have more than enough in the future.
Do you want live fish or dead fish in a moving warm pot?
Live fish when you move.
When you move, relatives and friends often send some gifts to congratulate us on our house warming, and it has a very good meaning to send the master fish when you move, but there is also a certain amount of attention to sending fish.
Then the first point is to send fish as much as possible to send some ornamental fish, so as to ensure that the fish is alive when it arrives, if you send some edible fish, then try to buy some live fish, and be sure to cook and eat on the day of moving. The number should be even, 2/6/8 and other numbers, in pairs, which means auspicious.