So frustrated at Chinese new year traditions

 You are not allowed to clean your house nor throw the trash away during the first 5 days of Chinese new year. Otherwise you throw away your fortune. Last lunar year New Year's Day, I pulled the trash bin back from the roadside to my yard because that day was the trash collection day and my tenant pulled the trash bin to the roadside in the morning. This drove my tenant craze. 
you are not allowed to take a shower nor do laundry during the first 1-2 days. You are not even allowed to wash dishes as the running water will make your fortune flow away. If you have to use the water, you hav to block the water sink so that the dirty water would not flow away.

I just feel so curiouse why in the Chinese new year traditions, trash and dirty water mean the fortune?

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• 从来没follow过，年年一样过 -maze0616- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 11:57:23

• +1 从来不知这习俗，只知道正月里不理发，但也很少 follow -新年好运- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 13:00:02

• 古人还有说：入乡随俗。 -香香生煎馒头- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 11:57:38

• 各地不同的。我们那就一天，哈哈。 -iBear- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 11:58:31

• 毛婚姻几次？ -LexusOnly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 13:07:03

• You are not in China. ;)) -Pt1000- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:00:32

• 还有正月里不能动刀的，那日子怎么过啊 -maze0616- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:01:06

• 我们那边没这习惯啊， 哪有不倒垃圾的 ？ -gzlady- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:01:16

• 我也是第一次听说 -maze0616- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:03:57

• 可能是各处乡村各处礼啊 -gzlady- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:44:17

• 有的。 -香香生煎馒头- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:05:15

• 我相信有的 -gzlady- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:44:54

• 这是穿越回来的？ -julie116- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:01:19

• 各地风俗不同，城里更是没啥传统。大城市里连彩礼没有，这些风俗也没听说过。 -DoraDora2008- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:01:56

• 这个风俗不是所有地方都如此，至少我老家不是 -CRUSH- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:09:41

• Never heard about these kind of "custom" so you have an -Giantfan- ♂ (141 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:11:33

• 沮丧啥，要与时俱进。我们过年还得吃一整个猪头呢。现在找不到猪头，哥难道就不过年了？ -苗盼盼- ♂ (63 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:13:00

• +1, 开心最重要. -Giantfan- ♂ (108 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:14:30

• 我这中国街有卖猪头肉，真的很香 -CRUSH- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:17:27

• 猪头最好吃的是猪鼻子部分，我们叫它拱嘴儿 -通州河- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:18:27

• 我爱吃猪鼻子，还有猪耳朵的上半截 -苗盼盼- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:19:45

• 这个... 我不吃因为想象力比较丰富 :) -Giantfan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:21:31

• 下半截咋招你了？ -小胆如鼠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:21:55

• 下半截太肥，越靠近脑袋的越肥。上半截就是爽口的细细软骨 -苗盼盼- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:26:56

• 现在的猪耳朵没法卤，煮10分钟就看起来稀烂不成型了 -通州河- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:21:56

• 没人管你，你作茧自缚干嘛？ -Timshel- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:18:17

• 看样子你是一个懂中文的外国人，为什么你在乎中国的新年风俗？ -宅人- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 12:20:18

• 哈哈哈，Chinese new year traditions居然是GP英文写的 -蒙娜丽莎- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/20/2023 postreply 13:39:02