Chinese Lunar New Year customs around flooring
Chinese Lunar New Year 2025 is coming. For this week, let’s take a look at all the Chinese customs regarding flooring during the Chinese Lunar New Year while blasting the new Chinese Lunar New Year playlist from YouTube.
Spring Cleaning Before Chinese New Year
To do a spring cleaning of the house. This includes sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming the house. Declutter the house and remove the trash. This is to remove anything old and considered “bad luck” and to welcome the new year with a fresh new start. Using brooms made out of bamboo, with bamboo symbolizes luck due to resilience.
But sweeping with bamboo leaves, will it scratch the floor?
Bamboo brooms are hard. In Singapore, especially, LVP flooring is one of the popular flooring in HDB floors. LVP flooring is considered to be softer flooring. It is however modern luxury vinyl plank is scratch-resistant.
You can still sweep the floor with ease. You can also get more tips on cleaning LVP flooring.
Avoid cleaning on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year.
The First Day of the Chinese Lunar New Year is the day of welcoming anything new. Therefore, any form of cleaning such as sweeping, moping, and taking out the trash is usually avoided. This is due to the superstition of not wanting to “throw away the good luck”
Throwing of water is also avoided as water is considered to be wealth.
So with the Chinese Lunar New Year coming, the people from Vix Marketing Pte Ltd, like to wish you: A Happy New Year. And for any flooring solutions feel free to reach out to us and book a free consultation.
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